I just got a brand new Finkenmeister today
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, delivered by Robert 'Robson' Sommer himself.
Story is kinda funny, over the last few weeks I tried to contact Extreme Gear about the boat, but never got any response. So I decided to yesterday morning to contact Robson directly and fired of an e-mail asking a few questions. I didnt' really expect an answer right away, but late afternoon I get an e-mail from Robert where he said that he would be in Toronto today and if I wanted one, he would bring it over. Well id didn't take me overly long to call him back and say yes
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So this afternoon I met Robert at the Airport in Toronto and took delivery of it. he mentioned that he initially intended to ship the boat from Toronto to a dealer in Oregon (probably for you, oregonmatt), but that the shipping company quoted him something like $350 for shipping and so the dealer declined. He told me that he is here in Ontario because of business issues with Extreme Gear, as far as I understood they are terminating the business relationship.
So far I have not paddled it yet, just unwrapped it and sat in it. Had to cut back the foam hip pads to fit. so far I like them, they seem to work much better than the hip grabbers on my Atom. The cockpit is roomy, but a little shorter than what I am used to from the Atom, it is slightly shorter and wider, but the skirt I have for my Atom seems to fit really well, so I am ready to paddle it this weekend on the Kipawa river in western Quebec, which is a big water class IV run, I'll post my thought and findings about it early next week.
martin
Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing - Henry David Thoreau