Roy, Yours was about the only one I know off but didn't mention it to Gordin as I was thinking more of hull damage from hitting rocks. As far as boat damage in surf, Chris Duff suffered some too in his NDK. I know of some VCP kayaks that have suffered the same fate. Personally, I like to reinforce my yaks over any factory build, not matter how tough they claim the kayak to be. I think also folks get upset that all that extra weight of a British heavy doesn't always equate to a stronger boat in extremis. They do however, in my experience, equate to a boat that doesn't wear out as quickly as some of the lighter north American kayaks. That thick gelcoat has to be good for something, I guess. :-) Doug L > NDK Explorers are tough, but surfing five foot swell at Wesport mine was > lowered onto a bit of something we never saw. It cracked the gellcoat on > top and, where the hull flexed, on the bottom as well. I now carry a > large float bag in my day hatch. > > http://www.apgar.com/040430_gallery.htm > > Following a little touch-up, it has given good service on the open coast > for years. > > Roy > > "At least in as much as he likes his kayaks easily field repairable so > that punctured hull damage limits itself too a small focused area easily > patched, as opposed to a long sinewy crack that other hull matrix > combinations might yield. In fact, I haven't seen too many NDk's ever get > holed in the first place anyway, come to think of it. Err, I haven't heard > of any, more precisely." *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Apr 08 2008 - 21:56:28 PDT
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