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Speaking from personnel experience welding cracks in various boats including my Wavesport Y; All welds eventually fail. Cross-link plastic boats don't hold welds as well as linear plastic boats, but they are weldable. For bolt holes you should be able to get a water tight seal. I use the welder and ...

IMHO this is the way to go! I ordered and installed the airline seat belt buckles from skybelts (www.skybelts.com) in my Atom C-1 and they worked really well. The buckles will work with 2in webbing, so I used the existing straps in the boat and not the 1.5in webbing that came with buckles. Adjusting...

I paddled a Y for a year or two before I got a Fink. It makes a pretty good C1 for creekin. For me, the boat work well on the irrigated boulder bashing type of runs, but not so well on bigger rivers. I found it very easy to roll and it tracks well. On the down side, I found the Y to be very slow. I'...