Peter Treby wrote: > Colin > "Here are a couple of recent Optio WP Galleries from the Caithness, > northern Scotland, and Moray coast, north east Scotland: > http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~ltu006/images/Caithness/ " > What type of boat is the kayak with the multi-coloured deck? It > appears about 25 photos down in the Caithness series. Nice looking boat. Peter The boat is an island expedition. They are nice boats, recently on the market, designed in Scotland. I have only paddled one of the early prototypes, but was impressed. Fast, but also a playful turny boat skeg up. some interesting design features too: hand grips moulded into the bow and stern, skeg offset to one side to open up space in the rear hatch and limit pebble jams, seat and rear bulkhead moulded as one. Hard chined and low volume variants on the way. They don't all have coloured decks like Neil's boat either! more info here: http://www.islandkayaks.net/IKAboutUs.htm FWIW I have no connection with the company, but if I was in the market for a production boat island expedition would be on my list. Cheers Colin www.kayakscotland.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 Thu Jul 21 2005 - 00:17:24 PDT
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