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Chair is from an inflatable pontoon that I cut up. Fits nicely. The lack of a real chair is stock form is kinda crummy.
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On the roof of the rice and oil burning daily driver.
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The DT10 is 65 pounds and is easy to move around. I have no problems loading/unloading off the car. It is short but it is wide making it very stable. I was able to add the elevated seat with no problems to stability. It does not track all that well and takes some effort to get it moving. As a pond hopper it is great but I don't recommend it as something to trek miles in. It tracks too poorly and take too much effort to move for that application IMO.johns wrote:thanks for the post. I was looking at that model but didnt know if it was to small. My son has an ocean which is nice. You dont get wet and it handles the waves good. I bought my 2 grandsons job lot 12' sot fishing kayaks. They arent to bad either and weigh a little less. Weighing in around 200lbs I wasnt to sure if the 10' would be to small for me. I like the stadium seats that you can get on the ascend. Dont want to get to wet and want to be able to handle waves when the boats go by. Also the longer yaks seem to paddle faster and straighter. The 10' would fit in the back of my van with the door closed and since im getting a litte older lighter. thanks for any comments
Brad in Texas wrote:Nice report!
And, it's likely best to start out this way with an inexpensive kayak, then try a few out when you are on the water with friends or at demos over several months or even a few years. You can't know what you don't know.
Three things you MUST determine, I think, take precedence over all other considerations: 1) Do you prefer to stand and fish? 2) Do you prefer to pedal or paddle or both? 3) How do you plan to get to the water? These three will eliminate a lot of choices, help you narrow things down, avoid buying mistakes.
For standing, there are several kayaks of both the pedal and paddle versions that will do the trick. Most will not. Yes, you can stand in them but where you are constantly in the process of balancing. Many claim their kayaks are stable enough to stand in. Get on the water and what you will see is most kayakers in their seats all day.
For pedal versus paddle, it will affect how you get to the water because the pedal yaks are almost always heavier, a bit more plastic rigidity for the drives . . . the drives themselves are moderately heavy. It was here I had my first "ah ha" moment after convincing myself I needed pedals, that they held position on the water better, were faster and fished better. Today, I'd greatly prefer the simplicity of a paddle kayak. No mechanical maintenance is a really big deal. And, I actually prefer to paddle over pedal. Old School.
For how you will get to the lake, the water, you can forget buying a Hobie PA 14 if you plan to car top. Yes, I suppose someone does it, but it is a chore. Here again, I'd prefer to not pull a trailer for a kayak. I use a truck with a bed extender. That'll still allow for a big kayak, but if you don't have a truck, be certain to find a vessel that makes it easy to get on the water.
There are likely thousands of motor boats that sit in garages, rarely used, that WOULD be used if they could wave a wand and the boats were magically floating in the water, after a day on the water, wave the wand a second time and it magically ends up back in the garage. But, it's the maintenance and the various grinds that keep an endless supply of boats, including kayaks, in the "for sale" column where it reads: "used only three times."
More ideas to share if others want to discuss it more in depth. Brad
I've fixed a couple of kayaks in the past. Would recommend contacting the manufacturer and asking for a couple of pieces a scrap plastic. Jackson kayaks sells them on their website.LowRange wrote:
Discovered a hole. I guess I shouldn't have been dragging it across the ramp. The concrete ground down the skeg and exposed a hole. I'm going to try patching it with JB Water Weld to get by for the rest of the season.