Anyone have experience with Wilderness Systems Tempest kayaks? I spent a few days in Bar Harbor (Maine) last week and saw a couple of these boats hung from the ceiling at Cadillac Mountain Sports. Design and craftmanship looked beautiful. Tempest 170 and a Tempest 160... which I assume is code for 17 and 16 feet respectively. My wife sold boats for years in Anchorage AK and has always been a fan of WS. Store was too busy for conversation with staff, so I thought I'd bring the topic up here. Don't mean to start two threads here, but I've been hearing that Necky is about to sell a 16 and 18 foot boat called the Chatham, the shorter length in both plastic and glass. The buzz is that the smaller boat (especially) promises to be popular. ("Buzz" gleened from the paddlers experimenting at symposia with boats seeded by Necky). Love to hear any views... Tom *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Tom, No useful input related to the Tempests, but there was an interesting pair of discussions regarding the Chathams on the Greenland Paddling forum: http://www.qajaqusa.org/cgi-bin/GreenlandTechniqueForum_config.pl/read/15265 http://www.qajaqusa.org/cgi-bin/GreenlandTechniqueForum_config.pl/read/14851 (I'm linking directly to the lead messages in the threads, I'm not sure about how to get the frames to show correctly) Aaron Cunningham *************************************************************************** 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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