: Hi Mike,

: You're not alone, I also bought rather than made the Wenonah Argosy
: canoe I got this spring. Wanted a solo canoe for shallow often
: rocky streams that I could bang around and not worry about. It's
: been fun having a canoe again :)

: Bill H.

There is definitely something liberating about throwing all of your gear in your boat and launching it down a really steep embankment like a sled on your way down the gorge to the put-in and knowing you won't cause any damage AT ALL... And a seal launch off rocks into rocks... But as for Mike's comments, regardless of the center of balance I could NEVER enter my ww boat on the water. It's a tight fit even for a skinny guy, and requires a bit of work. It took a whole winter of pool practice to get used to how hard it was to get in, and a while to get over the scary feeling of being nearly immobile for the first 20 minutes before it felt comfortable. This coming from someone used to Greenland SOFs.

This is probably not news to pnet followers...

m