There's a saying in the publishing world "there's the reviewers and the doers". Advertisers always get favorable reviews. Guess why?

These reviewers are paddlers just like you. If their bottom doesn't fit the seat, the boat is not so good etc. I never read a bad review in Sea Kayaker even on Nigel Fosters Vyneck where the initial stability was so low that the graph dropped below the line on the page.

I know in manufacturing, one bad review by a writer can kill years of work and investment by the designer and manufacturer. I'd rather have 35 paddlers paddle my boat than have some writer with a chip on his/her shoulder tell 20,000 readers that the boat's too long or some other opinion.

I'd like to see my kayak tested on the computer however for those specs. and made public.

So much of our opinion about what kind of kayak traits we like is very personal.