At 01:25 PM 10/19/00 -0700, Dave Kruger wrote: Luke Hoffman wrote: > <snip stuff I wrote on trying on trying on a kayak > Be leery of this. Were you wearing your "normal" paddling togs and footgear? > If not, consider that a 3 mm wetsuit will make the fit tighter. Are the thigh braces >of a type which can be shaved somewhat to fit you better? I was wearing street clothes. That's a good point. Although around here (North Alabama) we don't need wetsuits most of the year. I believe the braces could be modified and someone told me offlist that on the Perception boats you can actually remove and exchange the thigh braces. >Don't move the seat more than an inch -- you can seriously alter the trim of >the boat and that will affect its paddling performance. I'm glad you mentioned that. I hadn't even thought of that. I've gotten several back channel responses from other tall folks, and evidently this is not an uncommon problem. I have gotten a couple of other boat suggestions, plus I remembered Wes Boyd's Boats for Big Guys page at: http://www2.dmci.net/users/wesboyd/bigguy.htm I'm going to check out some of those too. Luke *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Oct 20 2000 - 05:31:02 PDT
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