In a message dated 8/12/2004 8:45:52 AM Pacific Daylight Time, shawnkayak_at_yahoo.com writes: > Whatever happened to Perception's whitewater kayaks? They used to rule > the market. Now they're producing unique recreational kayaks (just > like everybody else). What happened to Riot when Corran Addison left? > Stagnation. Now Dragorossi is hot. Wavesport slowed bigtime when EJ > left. Now his own Jackson kayaks are going to be hot. Pyranha almost > disappeared until their latest series of boats, and they're back in the > action. Dagger rested on their laurels after the RPM, and only a year > or two ago jumped back up with the Kingpins. > On a similar note, I like the fact that Valley has not rested on the Nordkapp's laurels and continue to update it with the Jubilee and H2O versions. Just because it's gone around Nordkapp and The Cape doesn't mean it cannot do it in better style with new outfitting. Their new Argonaut/Aquanaut lineup seems to be a very flattering nod, shall we say, to a certain Nigel Dennis. Rob G *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Aug 12 2004 - 10:00:12 PDT
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