Hi Darryl, I paddled an Aquanaut rented from the outfitter in Elkhorn Slough N of Monteray, CA. Nice boat, quick and nimble. But, and this depends on your bias toward stability, I ended up buying a Current Designs Caribou in Kevlar. I do camping in the Everglades, and there's not a lot of rocks to play in here. I was all about tracking, stability and speed. The volume is huge, similar to my older (and sold) Seaward Vision. I can pack anything I want in the Caribou, including a full-size folding chair to keep my butt up above scorpion level. You know the chairs everyone brings to outdoor concerts and soccer games? $12 I think it cost. So it's not a small camping thing. I did replace the back band with a better one, or maybe one more to my preference. The stock one would pinch me between the back band and seat. So I swapped back bands with the one I bought for the Vision. Love the boat now. YMMV Take care, Carey On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Darryl Johnson <Darryl_Johnson_at_rogers.com>wrote: > He has suggested a few other boats I might want to try: > Current Designs Infinity > Delta 17 Skeg > Boreal Baffin > Boreal Ellesmere > Impex Force 4 > Seaward Quantum > Nigel Foster Legend > P & H Capella 173 > > The Impex Force 4, as I recall is a fast, narrow boat more suited to day > trips and speed demons (which I am not), so I probably won't test it. *************************************************************************** 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 Apr 07 2011 - 10:34:38 PDT
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