At 07:18 PM 4/1/2005 +1200, John Kirk-Anderson wrote: >Anyone out there paddle a Wilderness Systems Tempest 165 or 170 and prepared >to offer their thoughts on the boat? > >I'm looking for a plastic boat, sans-rudder, to use for coaching. I normally >paddle a Nordkapp or an Arluk 1.8 and something smaller would be nice. I'm >70kgs and fairly competent (BCU Coach L4). > >There is a 170 locally which I will demo, but any comments would be useful. I've only paddled the 165 and it would likely be an ideal boat for teaching with the only caveat being that it might be too easy to perform many of the skills you're teaching, possibly frustrating some students when they can't make their boats perform as well. *************************************************************************** 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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