You are referring to Heritage/Hop-on-top Kayaks... http://www.sit-on-topkayaking.com/articles/designers/paulcronin.html Paul is still around in RI, and has been seen selling off a few of his personal fleet (mostly kevlar)...i spoke with him last year or so and he said that he had a few kayak designs on the board, but not certain if they would ever appear.... GREAT sit on tops that paddled like sit in boats.....with a handful of models up to 18'.... r > Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:49:33 -0700 > From: "Michael Orchard" <mspadorchard_at_comcast.net> > Subject: 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. *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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