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From: Kirby Stevens <stevens_at_islandnet.com>
subject: [Paddlewise] Current Designs GT
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 13:29:56 -0800
Does any one know the dimensions for the GT, I am considering getting the boat but now sure how if I can fit my legs into it or not and what the width and length is.    Unfortunately CD doesn't have any of this stuff on their website.   Go figure??

Kirby


Coastal Waters Recreation
www.coastalwatersrec.com

Publishers and Distributors of Coast Recreation Maps
British Columbia

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From: Michael Noyes <mnoyes_at_gsinet.net>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Current Designs GT
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 17:16:39 -0500
Kirby Stevens wrote:

>Does any one know the dimensions for the GT, I am considering getting the boat but now sure how if I can fit my legs into it or not and what the width and length is.    Unfortunately CD doesn't have any of this stuff on their website.   Go figure??
>
>Kirby
>
>
>Coastal Waters Recreation
>www.coastalwatersrec.com
>
>Publishers and Distributors of Coast Recreation Maps
>British Columbia
>
>
>
Per my model year 2000 catalog the Current Designs Solstice GT has the 
following specifications;
Length 17 feet 7 inches (5.4 m)
Width 24 1/4 inches (61.6 cm)
Depth 14 1/2 inches (37 cm) add 3/4 inch (1.7 cm) for high volume version)
Weight 55 pounds (25 kg) in fiberglass and 49 pounds (27.2 kg) in Kevlar
Cockpit opening 16X31 inches (41X79 cm)
Rear hatch opening 12X17 1/2 inches (30.5X45 cm)
Forward hatch opening 8X14 1/2 inches (20X37 cm)
Total volume 106 gallons (400 liters)
Hull design Fish form shallow "V"

I doubt that the specs have changed in the last two years, it costs 
quite a bit to change the molds.  I hope that this helps you in your 
search, I have the catalogs from several other manufacturers as well if 
you need other information.

Mike Noyes

-- 
    Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are 
visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great
blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a 
mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your
passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space.
Mark H Hunt



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From: Michael Daly <michaeldaly_at_rogers.com>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Current Designs GT
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 17:19:38 -0500
From: "Kirby Stevens" <stevens_at_islandnet.com>

> Does any one know the dimensions for the GT, 

>From the 2000 catalog (note that they've made changes for 2002)

LOA     17'7"
Beam    24.25 in.
Depth   14.5 in.
Weight  55/49 lb (glass/Kevlar)
cockpit 16x31 in.
volume  400/106 (liters/US gal.)

You can add 0.75" to the depth and 52 liters to the
overall volume for the high volume version.  No idea what
the XL version is like.

The length from seat back to forward bulkhead is in the range
of 55-60 inches (crudely estimated from measuring me seated
to where I think the bulkhead is.)  

Mike


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From: D.Mac <dmac49_at_idsi.net>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Current Designs GT
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:40:35 -0500
>From CD's catalog:
L 17'7    W 24 1/4"    Dep 14 1/2"    wgt  55 lbs.    Cockpit 16" x 31"
rear hatch 16 1/2 " x 8 1/2"    fwd hatch 14 x 7 1/2 "  Tot Vol 106 US gal
Hull Fish form Shallow "V"
That's from their 2002 catalog.

Dan

Kirby Stevens wrote:

> Does any one know the dimensions for the GT, I am considering getting the boat but now sure how if I can fit my legs into it or not and what the width and length is.    Unfortunately CD doesn't have any of this stuff on their website.   Go figure??
>
> Kirby
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