Salkyrie wrote:Bobs' decks cover the whole boat...then you slap on a C1 neoprene deck and away you go!
I wouldn't say don't do it, but it still sounds sketchy costly weirdassed... Saw that on a SF before easier to do than for a prelude for sure.
In the same dilemma I sold the prelude and got a C1 creeker (Remix 69) two years ago. Best move ever. You will enjoy much easier cross-bow moves (lower deck) much much easier roll'n, drier and faster ride in a shorter lighter boat. Easier to boof too.
The new stomper looks great or get a cheaper used C1 creeker (karnali remix burn everest mamba nomad etc). It should even be cheaper than the $ you may get for your prelude.
The prelude is a great boat, was just not for me. My remix feels so much more nimble than that tank. I don't fiddle around with air bags electric pump batteries end ropes... Heck I even often throw the boat right in the car instead of strapping it over it; man C1ing is sweet!
What's your Remix weigh? 2 airbags and a skirt mine weigh dang near as much as my SF (45# vs 48#, I think) and is harder to carry. I thought maybe I'd gotten a heavy one or had gotten silly with the outfitting, but LL specs say 45#...
My outfitted remix (about 45#?) certainly weights quite close to the specs of the prelude (50#), on paper. But then add pump+battery pack+2 wet end ropes+whatever water always stays in and I'm sure you're in fact closer to 60#.
But still that's not the only thing. Even with a pump there's always at least a bit of water in when you're on the action and the lenght (9.5 feet VS 8'9" I know again not so much) of the boat and the fact that a lot of that plastic/weight seems to be in the ends was asking for added strenght to turn.
Still, the "tank" reference was more of a feeling thing probably then weight, and that's just how I felt when going from one boat to the other. Wish I would still own both to make for a better comparison but money didn't allowed for that. The absence of gunnels also made offside moves and rolling so much easier all of the sudden the whole feeling on the water got absolutely somewhere else.
