The XT is a nice comfy boat, a little twitchy in flats but it firms up nicely in some chop. Welcome to the sit on top, I mean surfski world. We're headed out for a hopeful downwind tomorrow - about a dozen miles. The more wind the less time, the better time, and better stories ;-) The tentative crew is 3 Epic V8s, an Epic V12 and a Huki S1X. Kirk On Fri, Sep 14, 2012, at 10:14 PM, Mark Sanders wrote: > With all my friends abandoning their sea kayaks for longer, skinnier > boats, I was forced to go out and by my own surfski. Today was my third > day out in my newtome Fenn Mako XT. > I'd gone out the harbor yesterday for the first time and I was surprised > my muscles didn't seem too sore today, but that was until I got in the > boat again today! Still, Ken and I headed out again into a three foot > swell. As someone used to big kayaks and a giant backband, this ski > stuff is going to take some getting used to, but it does seem a bit more > carefree lifestyle out on the water. A fun new challenge, but I'll be > hanging on to my sea kayaks. -- 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 Sep 14 2012 - 19:30:42 PDT
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