RE: [Paddlewise] The Ultimate Kayak

Paul wrote: -
>I'm wondering if anyone out there is
>familiar with this boat or the author.

G'Day,

Amazing that our club magazine is so widely read!! And like Sea Kayaker
theres an increasingly lomg list of contributors waiting to be published.
I've often wondered what US readers might think of the Flotsam and Jetsam
page!

I knew Tim quite well, paddled with him from time to time until he went to
Queensland. He's a good bloke and a professional Naval Architect. I think
its fair to say that he has designed the most original kayak I've ever seen,
with an extraordinary miracle of a retractable rudder almost a skeg
mechanism. The stern is also unconventional looking more like the transom on
a yacht and betrays Tim's professional background. I've never paddled the
boat but some of the most experienced members of the NSWSKC, Rob Mercer and
Andrew Eddy, were both very impressed with it. I believe it is being
manufactured commercially in Queensland but that the retractable rudder
almost a skeg has been simpified in the interest of mass production,
maintainability and reliability.

All the best, PeterO