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I like the look of the Option and Ion - anyone know if these are available in the UK and mainland europe? Any Options in the UK currently?

You forgot the boat you either love or die of crush injuries under... ;) Dunno what you mean :wink: the Prelude, Rodeo, Zoom and Maxim are all pretty light boats :) You missed the L'Edge out, which is notorious for it's significant weight. Oh no, really? I guess you are also going to tell me that E...

2opnboat1 wrote:MAXIM

I've heard nowt about the Maxim at all - what are they like? How does it compare woth the other short canoes?

TheKrikkitWars wrote:

You forgot the boat you either love or die of crush injuries under... [/quote]

Dunno what you mean the Prelude, Rodeo, Zoom and Maxim are all pretty light boats

I like the look of that welded SL Edge.....how does the unmodified L'edge perform for the lightweight adult paddler? - would it be best to look for a smaller more lightweight canoe?

So....what proportion of L'edges have actually cracked and what has Esquif now done to fix the problem?

Hmmmm.....but then you get into the realm of the boats that you either love or hate, such as the Zoom and the Prelude.....and I'd say that these would be more sensitive to the weight of the paddler.

I have a Rodeo. I immediately preferred this boat over my Ovation as its fast and more precise into eddies, carving better than my Ovation. I could not surf it as well as either the Ovation or a Prelude but hey. I'd rather hit the eddies and get upriver when I need to. Its wetter than the Ovation bu...

I really loved paddling a Prelude when I got my hands on one. The stronger the flow the better it felt and incredibly stable. I didn't play with a roll though, hope that happens at some point :wink: I've never heard anyone say they were hard to roll. I'm still pretty rubbish at rolling the Rodeo, ca...

duh I guess i was thinkin Viper, truth be told I would rather just swim and about the bent shaft paddle if it was bent one way couldn't it be bend back the other way. No, no Viper there, some ex-competition paddler elbowed you out of the way in his haste to get to it and has already shot the first ...

Too slow Louie

The OP (CJT) has grabbed the Ovation and is having a great time surfing some waves

Looks like you are stuck with the XL13

The Ovaulation double suxs I built the moldin table for the Ovaulation and it is a dog. It is like a bulldozer It doesn't cut throu the water It tries to push the water. Why should he waste his money on a boat that wasn't very good when it came out and has gotton worse as so many other better boat ...