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How big is ur mate?

i weigh 65 kg (bout 140 pounds in yankee style ) and not quite 6 foot and can super clean cartwheel it in flat water!
and im not built very big at all.

i found the boat seems to respond better to body movements rather that brute force.

the s6f is a good playboat, i used my dads for a while, he was a bit annoyed to see all the kayak stuff in a pile and all my c1 stuff in it! mabey i should have asked him first. Oh well It depends how high your lap belt is! if it is low then move it up instead of adding another cus that is one more ...

i don't and found i have no need for it!

i found that in a freestyle boat all you need is a good front wall and a good backrest

what boat do you use and wot is it for? (eg freestyle or creeking or flatwater)

i did it with the dagger saddle, slight modifications made it come in and out in minutes. the problem is you than have to carry all the stuff arround with you! i have seen a guy who totaly gutted his boat and re built the outfitting from scratch but so he could change the chunks of foam to be either...

Got a video of my first play in my wheelboy!
the video was taken the day i got it so i was (am) still getting used to it!

Enjoy

http://www.1stboston.escouts.net/alex/wheelboy.wmv
3.7mb Windows Media

C1-Dom wrote:Why do you want 2 bolt holes to secure the webbing under the rim?

The holes will be to hold a L shaped bracket to mount some hip pads, i will be drilling the hole for my straps on the flat bit just behind that. the same place as the straps in the green boat.

sorry i didn't make that clear

Im going to collect it from tryweryn may bank holiday. if i can figure out what outfitting needs to be done, i may be able to do it and paddle it there yay! would someone who has the boat be able to measure the distance between a suitable place to put a bolt through the deck so it is vertical and is...

has anyone put hip pads in yet?

the green boat in the pictures, did you drill the holes in the deck to hold the straps or were they already there?

cooool my turn

there is no problem in wearing monthly and daily lenses, but you will have to go and have two separate fitting/trial/test period and examination to make sure that your eyes will be ok with them, it all depends on weather they are comfortable and your eye accepts them. Your optician can order daily d...

yes but with monthly lenses if you get any mucky water or bacteria in them, it will breed on your eye for the rest of that month giving you a realy nasty infection, i had monthly ones and had a nasty infection from them. Soft lenses work like a sponge, that is how they stay soft by soaking up water,...

Liquid Logic Airheads are quite big and they are good playboats in c1 and K1, a few years old now so they should be cheap, they are over here.

Pyranha s6f have a big version too

I wear contacts when i am playboating and have no problems. you are best off getting daily disposable ones incase they do get any mucky water in them and start growing bacteria and infectious stuff which can be quite nasty. take them out and put fresh ones in as soon as you get off the water otherwi...