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Pastimes : Canoes, Hiking, the Great Outdoors -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (88)	2/26/1999 8:56:00 PM
From: Bob Pressler	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 325

Hey Steve, I am a VERY novice paddler. I used a Selyvor rubber kayak for 2 days last November in Key Largo, Florida in the ocean to paddle and fish. It was great fun but it didn't track very well. I would be paddling along and suddenly would do an instant uturn. I paddled 5 miles like that one day and had so much fun that my wife and I decided to take it back and get a real kayak. Then when it came down to plunking down $1000 bucks for the plastic Old Town we decided on, I chickened out since it was unplanned and we were on vacation. Anyway I started investigating on the Net and learned about folders and I bought Ralph Diaz's book, "The Complete Folding Kayak". I wanted to go out to Sacremento, Calif. to the Western Folding Kayak Center to look at them, but I couldn't get the time off work. Peter, the owner, keeps Folbot, Feathercraft, Klepper, Nautraid, and Pouch in stock for sale and comparison. viewit.com I think he just left for a month on a Mexico vacation. So after reading what I could and comparing that way and since my wife isn't very adventurous the way I am and knowing that she wouldn't go for learning to Eskimo roll, I ordered a STABLE Klepper Quattro double and it arrived Wednesday. It is a lot of money but I think we will enjoy it. It assembles easily but it's very heavy. I work second shift so I'd like to take it out tomorrow but it is supposed to rain so I'll probably wait until Monday when it is supposed to be 40 degrees and sunny. :) I plan to use it in the lakes and streams here in Ohio a lot and in Lake Erie 4 or 5 times a year. Once a year we go to Florida and I can use it all week to fish the mangroves, to paddle to the reefs and snorkle when we get more experience and to explore the Everglades. I can't wait to sit in it on the water. The living room floor isn't really doing it for me. Bob