: Hi All, getting ready to build a new yak, either a Night Heron high
: deck or a Outer Island(high deck if there is one). My first boat
: which I finished spring 2010 is a Night Heron low deck and I seem
: to have trouble getting in, my bio is 5' 8" 170 Lbs. size
: 11
: shoe and 82 years old and my question is, is the low deck trouble
: for most paddlers. I have read somewhere that the low deck
: was much more favored by paddlers so if my problem is age connected
: I will work on that. Thanks. Nick R.

How do you fit once you're in the boat? Or havn't you been able to get in?

Might be alot easier to get in the way I do on my Greenlander, let the boat sit at the edge of the water but sitting on it's bottom, sit on the rear deck with your feet in the cockpit, straighten you legs, hold onto the coaming and slide your legs in while dropping your butt onto the seat. Once you get used to doing that it's pretty easy. I now do it that way even with a keyhole cockpit, it's just easier.

Bill H.