03-26-2007, 01:03 AM
Took it out again today. My keister still got wet but nearly as bad as yesterday. The biggest factor I think was wind. Yesterday wind was 10-15 mph and there was a little chop on the water. Today was much milder, I'd say 2-5 mph tops...virtually no wave action.
Unfortunately the river was an ugly ugly mess. There was lots of flotsam and jetsam floating on top. Tree branches, tree chunks, pieces of tree bark, beer bottles, ice chests, you name it it was probably floating out there somewhere.
Now for the review. I really like this boat. It's light enough I can carry with little effort. Even though it's fairly large (8' x 4') it's not that awkward to pick up and carry. I transport it directly on top of my car with no problems (knock on wood)! Once on the water it rows real nice ('course I wasn't fighting with the wind today either
]) and even just using the fins I'm able to 'aim' the thing in the right direction pretty easily and can even move the craft pretty well with just the fins.
I guess what I'm getting at is that I'm totally hooked! It's really more than I could have expected.
I plan on rigging up a couple rod holders this weekend and I've asked for a fish finder for my birthday (next week) so I should be large and in charge here pretty quick like. I owe most of what I know to the fine folks here at this site. Thanks a bunch guys!
P.S. If I wasn't scared to death of taking my camera out on the water with me I'd post pics. Maybe if I ever catch something I'll be more motivated to take the camera out there![]
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Unfortunately the river was an ugly ugly mess. There was lots of flotsam and jetsam floating on top. Tree branches, tree chunks, pieces of tree bark, beer bottles, ice chests, you name it it was probably floating out there somewhere.
Now for the review. I really like this boat. It's light enough I can carry with little effort. Even though it's fairly large (8' x 4') it's not that awkward to pick up and carry. I transport it directly on top of my car with no problems (knock on wood)! Once on the water it rows real nice ('course I wasn't fighting with the wind today either![
]) and even just using the fins I'm able to 'aim' the thing in the right direction pretty easily and can even move the craft pretty well with just the fins.I guess what I'm getting at is that I'm totally hooked! It's really more than I could have expected.
I plan on rigging up a couple rod holders this weekend and I've asked for a fish finder for my birthday (next week) so I should be large and in charge here pretty quick like. I owe most of what I know to the fine folks here at this site. Thanks a bunch guys!
P.S. If I wasn't scared to death of taking my camera out on the water with me I'd post pics. Maybe if I ever catch something I'll be more motivated to take the camera out there![
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