> On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:14 -0800, "Craig Jungers" > <crjungers_at_gmail.com> wrote: > Wow! All of us should have such friends. Good friends are a wonderful thing. > Is the useful life of those kayaks typically that short? I have boats that are 20 years > old that I still paddle around on a regular basis depending upon > what I want to do that day. I knew that surf-ski boats are light and quick... > but "disposable" didn't enter my mind. :P The boat life is dependent on construction and how you treat it. The boat that I damaged was about 8 years old. I'm the third or possibly fourth owner. I understand that I paddle the boat equivalent of an egg so I treat it as such. The margin of error for damage with an ultralight boat is fairly low, they don't react well to collisions. I can get a new boat in a few layups. Each pound of boat weight costs about $100 to lose. A 40 pound boat will last longer than I will - unless something bad happens A 30 pound boat will hold up to most normal usage A sub 25 pound boat needs its owner to be nice to it. Kirk -- Kirk Olsen *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Mar 04 2011 - 09:32:45 PST
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