Re: [Paddlewise] Idea diving kayak?

thanks Craig.... I have seen Ocean kayaks... they seem to be everywhere... and
to my way of thinking, in comparison to a good real sea going yak... are
lacking a great deal.  They are plenty on the used market... but don't seem to
be well designed.  To my limitted experience with them, based on one paddle,
and looking at some of their boats I did not paddle.. their hulls are very
inefficient.

I have not looked for a couple of years... but did find one boat that was at
one time being made on the east coast, out of fiberglass... and designed by a
marine boat architect,  whose name I don't recall.  They may have been the
exact boat I experienced once on Bodega Bay.

As far as I can tell... those fiberglass boats are out of production, and the
designer moved on the sailboats or some other boat designing.

http://www.paddling.net/buyersguide/showBoat.html?boatID=1632&boattype=Kayaks

Hurricane Kayak I think... may have been the name of the original boat
company... but it is not in anyway the original... to my way of thinking it
should be modest weight, and longer like a real sea kayak... and have and
efficient hull shape, with reasonable set up for the gear.

Don't think the heavy plastic boats I have seen are all that well designed in
any aspect.. except cost.

Thanks...

M.
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Craig Jungers
  Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Idea diving kayak?

  When I read your email I immediately thought of Ocean Kayaks which is a
premier manufacturer of fishing kayaks... but their web site is, hands down,
the worst I've ever seen. So I did some more searching and found a great web
page describing diving from SOT kayaks:
http://www.scubadiving.com/training/basic-skills/kayak-diving which seems
pretty interesting.

  A Google search for "dive kayak" brought up the X-factor dive/fishing kayak
which is another SOT in poly that seems pretty useful.
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