wanna help me buy a kayak?

[tulip]

COOL! A kayak is way up on my list, but still below a kitchen for my house (that starts next week). IF (and that's a big IF) I have any money left over, I'm going to buy myself a kayak. I've had my eye on the Wilderness Systems Tempest 165 for a few years. It's the one I like to paddle the most. Congratulations!

[Badgirl]

Congrats on the new boat!

[lph]

*snort* tried out my new baby today, and ran into a really awful patch of neverending super-shallow siltbank on the river, and after trying to no avail to paddle or push myself out of it I just gave up. So po'ed I won't even look up

[madscot13]

if you are too upset with your kayak, I know a little girl who would be willing to take if off your hands.

or you can wait for the melting of the ice caps...

[redrhodie]

It looks like you're taking your pet kayak for a walk

[withm]

LOL! pet kayak! I love that!

We've all been there. Sometimes all the "ooomph" you can muster won't get you off a sandbar. Just look at it as practice for a portage.

[Blueberry]

*snort* tried out my new baby today, and ran into a really awful patch of neverending super-shallow siltbank on the river, and after trying to no avail to paddle or push myself out of it I just gave up. So po'ed I won't even look up

Did you get some paddling anyway? Most of the places we paddle are tidal, and when the tide is low, you get stuck every 10 feet it seems

CA

[lph]

It was a great trip really, no need to complain Not far from where I live two slow rivers run together and into a largish lake, and there are lots of meandering loops and delta islands to paddle in and around. Lots of birds in the spring, now just gaggles of geese practicing for their big departure. We paddled straight out and crossed the first river, turned upstream to get above the largest island, found a really beautiful narrow river "arm" running parallell downstream again, and then got stuck on the silt flats trying to cross back again. The wind had picked up too so we got some choppy waves going back, nothing large at all but it was good to get a little feel for what waves feel like in a not absolutely rock-stable kayak. As long as I used a little power heading into the waves it felt great. I like my kayak

[lph]

PS. Just in case anyone is considering a Prijon kayak - the thigh braces are large and sturdy, and I could not for the life of me get them aligned up to fit my leg. Basically, when I was sitting my thighs were angled out with my knee as the outermost point (logical, ja?), but the thigh braces were slightly angled inward. So however I moved the seat back and forth or the braces back and forth I could just achieve more or less of the brace squeezing my thigh and making my leg go numb in the long run.

So I just chucked them out. Bingo! Perfect fit

I may glue in som foam padding or something but so far the extra room to bend my knee feels perfect.

[Trigress]

I have to ask where this was, though? Alna? No? Øyeren? Øyeren would fit the description, we used to have a boat there when I was little, and one person had to watch the water for new banks as they kept changing. The sound of a boat trip on Øyern was pretty much like this:

vrrrrroooooammm-thud! (followed by ten minutes of digging the boat out of the silt)-vrrrrroooooammm-thud!

To be repeated.