Hello all, I have been asked to help come up with some definitions of various types of kayaks for the Great Rivers Marathon (http://www.greatriversmarathon.org), a 26.6 mile race that will be taking place on the Mississippi this coming September. The organizers aren't sure how to categorize the various kayaks and would like a short description and if possible a small picture of that type of boat. I have no idea what the difference between these boats might be so any help would be appreciated. I am also not sure where they are getting these classes from, so maybe there are some better ways of differentiating such as: K1 Racing Kayak, Sea Kayak (over 16'), Recreational Kayak (under 16'). Anyone wanna try 26 miles in a rodeo boat? K-1 Sea Kayak Recreational K-1 Solo Kayak K-1 Kayak Downriver Open K-1 Kayak Touring K-1 Kayak Unlimited K-2 Tandem Sea Kayak K-2 Tandem Kayak Unlimited K-3 Tandem +1 Kayak Unlimited -Patrick *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Patrick asked about classifying kayaks for a race. The San Juan Challenge makes use of tables come up with by the sound rowers. It's the best I've seen for classifying kayaks. You end up with 3 classes. High Performance, Fast, and regular sea kayaks. Their formula encompasses any one person kayak be it a folder, a traditional sea kayak, or a surf ski/racing kayak. http://www.soundrowers.org/yakclass.htm If doing it without those classifications, and you expected a large turn out. I would be likely to do Any kayak/surf ski over 18', Plastic kayaks 15' to 18' Plastic kayaks up to 15' Composite kayaks under 16' Composite kayaks 16' to 18'. Kirk heading for a local kayak race at 1 today ;-) -- Kirk Olsen kork4_at_cluemail.com *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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