RE: [Paddlewise] The Perception Sea Lion

At 01:34 PM 6/2/03 -0400, Don Margiano wrote:
>Perception used to make an actual "Sea Lion".  I
>understand this was a longer fiberglass boat.
>
>I was also confused on this since my 2002 Perception
>Eclipse says "Sea Lion" on the front and a little
>"Eclipse" under it.  My Eclipse is the 17' 2" boat that
>John mentioned.

The Sea Lion that I first paddled was about 6 years ago.  It was a plastic 
version.  I have also seen a Sea Lion S, a smaller fiberglass version 
(16'6", I think) about five years ago at a symposium.  I know that the 
first year that the Eclipse came out it had "Sea Lion" as part of the logo 
but even though the Shadow was supposed to be a smaller version of the 
Eclipse it didn't include "Sea Lion" as part of the name.

What I find interesting is that the original poster said that it was a Sea 
Lion by Perception.  I don't recall exactly when the name change occurred 
but Perception was once called Aquaterra, and may have only been Perception 
for a year or so before the Sea Lion was replaced with the Eclipse.  I 
check on the Sea Kayaker magazine boat reviews page and they reviewed an 
Sea Lion by Aquaterra in issue 45 (April 1995). Unfortunately, they only 
publish a small number of their reviews online and charge for back issues 
of those they didn't put on line. 

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