Peter Treby wrote: > > Matt writes: > > "Here in the Northwest the public demands and gets a kayak that is a little > > too lightweight to take hard pounding on rocks or enders in surf." > There are a few weak, but popular boats here as well. Some you can depress > the deck in places with one finger. That worries me, but the sales staff > tell you that it's strong enough. Have a look at the boat cracked in half 5 > kms off shore at: http://www.nswseakayaker.asn.au/forsale.htm Great picture, Peter! This issue has come up before -- and I own one of those "lightweight" yaks that can not handle enders in surf. That's OK with me -- I don't expect to use it in surf, anyway, and if I have to do so, I'll just sidesurf my way in ... or try to, anyway. However, it boggles me, Peter, what could have caused that boat to crack in half if it was not involved in surf -- any idea what the circumstances were? 'Round here, we don't have reefs which would produce surf, 5 kms from shore. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Oct 10 2000 - 05:07:47 PDT
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