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Re: Help...Osprey/Coho comments on both?
By:Lee
Date: 10/26/2000, 12:07 am
In Response To: Help...Osprey/Coho comments on both? (Al Freeman)

Hi Al, Neither one. Consider the Arctic Tern 14. If you are concerned with paddling in high winds then you need to be sunk in the water, in other words you want a boat that doesn't have lots of reserve capacity since it is that reserve capacity that you are presently fighting when the wind picks up. The Coho is a marvelous boat if you're around 200 or carry lots of stuff. The Osprey/pygmy standard is a little less volume but not by much and it tracks quite well. I built a Coho for a friend with your dimensions and it is just too big unloaded, same with your Tern. I knew a 220lb guy that had a Pygmy standard and he was just right for all conditions. I weigh 180 and paddled the 14,even though I'm at the very top weight for it I think you would find it perfect.

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Help...Osprey/Coho comments on both?
Al Freeman -- 10/25/2000, 12:14 pm
Re: Help...Osprey/Coho comments on both?
Eric -- 10/28/2000, 7:03 pm
Re: Help...Osprey/Coho comments on both?
Lee -- 10/26/2000, 12:07 am
Re: Help...Osprey/Coho comments on both?
Mike -- 10/25/2000, 11:49 pm
Re: Help...Osprey/Coho comments on both?
Scott Fitzgerrell -- 10/25/2000, 8:04 pm