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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Cruiser vs Sea Tour?
By:Jon Mortimer
Date: 7/6/2014, 8:41 am
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Cruiser vs Sea Tour? (Etienne Muller)

I regularly fit my 192 lb into a 15.5 ft Yost Sea Tour 15 EXP. Local group recreational paddles on flat water average 6km/h or 3.2 knots and at this pace this short kayak is no slower and no harder to paddle than my commercially built 19 ft expedition kayak. This is what the computer modelling told me before construction and what I find on the water. This holds true to an average pace of 7km/h or 3.8 knots. Beyond that I'd prefer a longer kayak.

My only complaint about short kayaks is that for the same displacement they have to be wider. This means having to reach a little further out with each paddle stroke. Kayaks with the widest part in front of the paddler make this problem worse.

Jon Mortimer

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Skin-on-Frame: Sea Cruiser vs Sea Tour?
jamesshuang -- 7/5/2014, 4:46 am
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Etienne Muller -- 7/5/2014, 8:29 am
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Etienne Muller -- 7/5/2014, 8:36 am
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Bill Mayberry -- 7/5/2014, 9:59 am
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Etienne Muller -- 7/5/2014, 2:03 pm
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Bill Mayberry -- 7/5/2014, 2:55 pm
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jamesshuang -- 7/5/2014, 2:19 pm
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Lodeon -- 7/5/2014, 12:07 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/6/2014, 12:39 am
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Sean Dawe -- 7/7/2014, 8:18 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 7/7/2014, 12:32 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/8/2014, 12:16 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 7/8/2014, 1:05 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/9/2014, 1:23 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 7/9/2014, 2:02 am
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Sean Dawe -- 7/7/2014, 8:21 am
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Allan -- 7/5/2014, 8:00 pm
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jamesshuang -- 7/5/2014, 8:10 pm
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Allan -- 7/5/2014, 11:27 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 7/6/2014, 11:57 am
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Etienne Muller -- 7/6/2014, 5:19 am
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Ken Blanton -- 7/6/2014, 5:52 am
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Jon Mortimer -- 7/6/2014, 8:41 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Cruiser vs Sea Tour? *PIC*
jamesshuang -- 7/7/2014, 12:00 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 7/7/2014, 12:15 pm
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jamesshuang -- 7/7/2014, 12:54 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 7/7/2014, 1:18 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/8/2014, 12:21 am
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jamesshuang -- 7/8/2014, 12:59 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/9/2014, 1:28 am
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Jon Mortimer -- 7/8/2014, 3:46 pm
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jamesshuang -- 7/8/2014, 6:18 pm
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Jon Mortimer -- 7/9/2014, 9:28 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/7/2014, 12:29 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/7/2014, 12:30 am