: Do you folks like rounded hulls or hard chine kayaks?

We like rounded chine hulls on hard kayaks.
And yes, I am a royal pain in the ass, too.

Okay, you probably are looking for some elaboration as to why. The chine helps to lean turn and it seems to provide a little more stability and longer secondary stability then a rounded hull. When I say rounded hull, I'm meaning something like Joe Seda's Impulse of Glider which are tippy SOBs in the ocean, at least to everyone I know. Now I paddled a hard chined kayak that the name escapes me now and I found it to be a real twitch monster and its secondary wasn't all that good, at least to me. I guess the kayaks I like the best are the ones I designed, though I really like Nick's Night Heron, and Nigen Dennis' Explorer HV.

So, there. Meaningless babble when you really get down to it. I guess its what you feel part of and comfy in.