On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 01:22:05 -0400, "Jennifer Pivovar" <kayak_at_headwinds.org> said: > I never noticed the similarities before, but if you turn the seating > arrangement around and add a little rigging for oars, this looks a > whole lot like my Alden. Also a fairly plumb (yet long, narrow) bow, > also zero storage, but longer and perhaps even marginally faster due > to the larger 'engine' muscles employed. Not that I surf this one > often :). The regular recreational alden is scaled close to a regular sea kayak at 18' with a 24" waterline. The Alden Star is the local favorite for a fast open water shell. It's 21'6" with and 21.5" beam/18" waterline. The star is a foot and a half longer and several inches wider than my surf ski. In open fairly calm conditions I definitely can't generate the power/speed that a good rower on a star can. But if it gets rough, there's a huge advantage to not having those oars and rowing rig slamming into the waves. Plus I can see where I'm going... Although in a race a local woman, on a star, was willing to be closer to an island than I was and I could see where I was going. She was planting one oar into the wet sand on the island on each stroke.... I hadn't realized Alden now had a rotomolded shell http://www.rowalden.com It's under $1000. -- 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/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jul 01 2003 - 04:11:13 PDT
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