<<Which is a better boat....fiberglass or wood? I'm sure "better" can be sub-divided into things like durability, maneuverability, maintenance, etc., and the whole question may largely be personal opinions. But....in a couple years I'll replace my plastic "starter" boat with something nice that will last a lifetime (hopefully, that translates to a long, long time) and I'd like to start formulating a pretty good idea of what that next boat will be. Comments????>> Rick, I'm sure you know the basics about the boats. I'd suggest for the way you paddle that the glass or kevlar boat would be best. You have that big, high truck and the glass or kevlar would be lighter to heft up there. I get the impression your boat lives on your truck and plastic and wood are more vulnerable to the UV, and general weather. With the long distances you paddle a longer boat will just weigh more. You would probably enjoy the wood but it does take some maintance especially if you mean to keep it a really long time. Look at a few of the wood boats and see the differences. Most of those with the wood have to do a refinish to to extent every couple of years. You have plenty of boats to "demo" around the bay. You should take advantage of that. Just ask and most of us will give you a test drive. My boat would propbably be too big for you but Angelo has a Slipstream, as do several others. Next season all you'd need to do is ask and you could do it at Pier 7 some weeks. Joan *************************************************************************** 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 27 2000 - 08:06:10 PDT
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