I['m interested in impressions. I'm in the market for a used Klepper Expedition II and found out about the similar boats that Mark is building at Long Haul Products which used to be the Klepper Service Center. By way on introduction, my name is John and I have been paddling a Folboat double since 1960 when I built it in my living room. Read the ads in Boys Life for a couple of years before I could earn enough paper route money to make the purchase of the kit. My mom had threadbare rugs so she didn't mind. I built the boat to float in the Delaware River and have used it in many lakes and Bays on the East Coast. I still have the original color packet that Folbot sent me and I must have read it a hundred times before I ordered the boat. Best hundred bucks I ever spent. My 12 dollar Folbot paddles are still going strong, but the boat needs some repair before I don't trust it in anything but our little lake in the Poconos. I'm a big paddler 6'4" and north of 250 and like the open cockpit. We have a spraycover for more adventureous paddling, but don't need it most of the time. My 5'2" wife can't manage car topping a big double on our explorer and she has wanted a Klepper ever since she saw one being assembled at Bar Harbour a number of years ago. Soooo..... Don't bust me about folders until you've paddled your boat across the Atlantic. A relaxed boat for a relaxed guy. John MacKechnie Bethlehem, PA *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Jul 08 2002 - 14:37:03 PDT
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