Re: [Paddlewise] thigh bracing for Skerry?

From: <SeaKayakNH_at_aol.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 00:36:32 EDT
In a message dated 4/9/01 11:14:48 PM, romeug_at_erols.com writes:

<< Anybody have any difficulty with the pre-existing thigh braces in the

coaming digging in the upper part of your legs in a Romany?  I have

skinny legs but very long and am coming up with this problem. >>

    That this problem has not been addressed by the designer is unforgivable. 
I do not have skinny legs, In fact the adjective "skinny" has been 
conspicuously missing from descriptions of me for the past 25 years. OK, I'm 
a bit more than portly at 6'1" and 240#. But there's no reason why those 
"built for the British butt" thigh braces on the Romany & Explorer couldn't 
be changed to accommodate those of us that love the rest of the boat.

    The Explorer HV is a ridiculous response to putting a larger paddler into 
the Explorer. There was no need to raise the coaming at the back and sides of 
the cockpit. The problem is the da** thigh braces not the coaming!  And don't 
even get me started talking about how inappropriate it is to have breasts on 
a boat. Are the drugs in England that much better than stateside? Or was 
there some long lost superstrain of Peyote on Easter Island?

Jed
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