On Mon, Sep 24, 2012, at 10:11 AM, Mark Sanders wrote: > I was reading an old Sea Kayaker magazine the other day and saw a review > of the Valley Rapier kayak. 20' by 17". Never seen one in real life. It > rates 13.8 on the Sound Rowers website. > Don't know if I mentioned here I can roll my surfski using a waist belt > to keep me in the seat. My friends say "why would you want to roll a > surfski" but Duane mentioned that he saw several people having trouble > remounting in his race in SF. One of the guys who paddles with us periodically has had a couple of valley rapiers. I'll have to borrow his current boat try some rolls... It's been a while since I had some good upside downtime. Someone else mentioned the Black Pearl. Jim Farrelly clued me in on the Black Pearl a year or so back, very nice looking hull, from a low to the water I like rolling perspective. As for the surf ski, you definitely need to practice remounts as you would rolls. The same conditions are going to be there when you try to get back up, as were there when you went over.... I'm not terribly surprised that there were some problems at the SF race that Duane did, I know how often my cronies practice remounts and expect that to be consistent with other areas. I've seen pictures of surf ski's with lap belts but haven't ever tried one. Heritage kayaks (when it was hop-on-top) had knee straps for their performance sit on tops.. They worked very well for staying on the boat and doing rolls. 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 Mon Sep 24 2012 - 21:41:31 PDT
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