Well, I finally launched the Ootek, in very mild conditions, so I can't really offer much of an opinion yet, apart from the sense that it seems very manouverable, and seems to have very good secondary stability. This bodes well for messing around in rougher water and waves.
I was out with my wife, so as yet I have nothing to measure speed against. I'll do my usual course on the timer sometime and offer some kind of verdict.
It was still too cold for a roll to be in any way tempting, so that will also have to wait, but with its low deck the boat suits a greenland paddle very well. This is part of the reason I chose the design.
After we got back I asked my wife to do some video; mainly to demonstrate how I get in and out of kayaks without scratching them up, but it is the Ootek in action, be it in unchallenging conditions. Looking at the video the seat, as referred to previously by someone, does indeed look quite far back, but the boat seems very well balanced, so the buoyancy must be distributed about right.
I had to convert the video file to upload it to youtube and the conversion really messed up the quality. Sorry.
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