> I'm aware of the SOF issue. I guess I realize the SOF's are better at > shorter duration trips/outing - not long, dangerous crossing or rough, > extended off shore paddling. Doug, if you can find a copy of Watkins' Last Expedition, by F. Spencer Chapman, you should read his account of what I recall was a hundred-mile or more trip in an Inuit-built SOF kayak in weather so rough that Chapman was forced to roll several times. Even the Inuit he traveled with thought it was a rough trip. Nonetheless, he stayed afloat, and without flotation bags, at that. Chuck Holst *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Apr 04 2007 - 10:14:55 PDT
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