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Yes some of us are still doing conversions- anyone have some opinions on this boat- river running, flatwater moves, surfing, the usual....I'm 180 lbs

Cheers,
OC

I've seen it as a kayak and it looks like a good canidate for conversion to a C1. It would be a good allrounder C1. Good for the river running, flatwater moves, surfing, the usual...which you mentioned.

Good luck.

It's a pretty decent conversion, does everything fairly well. it's a little edgy but that makes it nice and fast edge to edge.

What kind of river running do you plan on doing?
river v.s play?

my vision 56 c1 runs no problem, i woudn't want to bring it down anything hairy, but it still works great

If you looking for a boat to loop, blunt, anything arial, or play on absolutly every type of feature then maybe go shorter/more volume good amount of rocker.

But if you don;t plan on doing any of those things, the ego is a good boat, but i have seen many c1 people grow out of them. (for play reasons)
(but then again your probably getting a super ego these days for a good price!!)

keep in mind the super ego at the time was designed to be a full on rodeo boat. as kevin points out, a little edgy and grabby, particularly the stern edges, for river running. And there are much better used playboats available now. If you wanted to go for a boat of that vintage (only a few years old I know), what about the wavesport EZ series, perhaps a big ez at your weight. from what I hear much better river runner, and a slow but good playboat.

Thanks for the info.

The EZ series seems really popular and user friendly, but what I heard about it being really slow made me shy away from it.

Planning to use it on easier rivers as I have an Atom for more technical stuff.

PS Someone did suggest adding a conversions section with comments to the site, this would be a really good idea to help those thinking of buying a conversion...

I don't have an opinion on the Super Ego. I do have a Big EZ C-1 though. If you're going to use it on easier rivers and/or park & play the Big EZ is a fine boat. It is slow, so I don't always make those must-make moves It carves great, & it loves fast, steep waves At 190lbs, I can easily get it vertical on either end & can go from stern to bow station, but have not yet figured out the bow to stern transition in the short boat. It is slow. I will not paddle anything harder than the Ocoee in it. Better paddlers may disagree. I have Viper for the big stuff.

I have photos here: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/wh20crazy ... /my_photos
Since these were taken, I've removed the thighstraps, added a bulkhead, lap-belt & hip pads. The hip pads really help it spin.