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I just started paddling a Quake this spring (from an Ocoee), and the more I paddle it, the more I like it. Put a piece of plastic up front to act as a wave deflector and that's working well, and installed a bilge pump. I have been moving the seat back, and the further back I get it, the better the boat is performing (dryer, faster(?), easier to paddle straight with "speed").

1. Why was the Quake designed?
2. Why did it only last 1 year (99 I believe)?
3. Is there a measurement for an 'optimum' seat position?
4. How will I know when the seat position gets too far back? (So far, more back is more better - one more console hole and then I have start chopping at the seat back).

Thanks
Jon

1. Playboat/all round river runner
2. Probably not true.
3. Neutral trim
4. When the trim is no longer neutral.

Was recently discussing the QUAKE with Lappie. I'd really like to try one.

It looks like it could be a great little river runner, creeker, playboat. Is it at all similar to the Spanishfly?
As I understand - The Quake met an early demise because it came out around the peak of "Rodeo". That was the focus of the day, Dagger quickly replaced it with the "AFTERSHOCK", a better rodeo boat.

On that note, we had an Aftershock at the pool. Though it felt light and accellerated quick, I struggled to find much good in it. The Spanishfly is 100x a better boat in every regard. There might be a purpose for it as a short allround kid's boat. Infact, it might be excellent for a 70 to 100lb er. We have a tester arranged.

I enjoy my Quake. Good creeker for lower volume stuff. Probably a good playboat, but haven't really tried it. Good GOD is it slow and wet though. That is the big reason I jump in my Prelude almost every time over the Quake.

I'm not sure exactly where my saddle is located in the boat.... I can measure tomorrow if you are really interested.

FWIW, I believe there were 4 different versions of the Quake made... May be worth trying to find out which yours is.

The quake is a tank. Bailey said the only one he ever seen break, fell off the roofracks and was hit by a semi. And yes, there are a few different versions out there.

Slow, wet but very very stable. Good for downriver and creeking but pretty bad at doing attaintments and such.

The quake was designed for rodeo but it wasn't a good rodeo boat. It was too hard to get the bow down and initiate ends to score points.

It turned out to be a good creek boat that people liked but the mold broke and they never replaced it. Its real claim to fame is that it is that it is basically unbreakable. I've never heard of a Quake hull cracking.

Dagger came out with the aftershock the next year which was too wet to creek in and wasn't as good for rodeo as the superfly which came out around the same time for the 1999 Rodeo Worlds in New Zealand

Louie is Lurking.

http://www.waldensridgewhitewater.com/f ... 75110855a5

i never owned one, but I have paddled one once in a while. I think it's a great boat and would be well worth having kept in production, had the mold not broken. Probably the easiest rolling boat out there. Slow, but no more than other boats in the under 9ft class. rediculously stable. wet, but Scott Card made a plexiglass bow deck plate with a deflector for his, that really made a big difference in dryness. As far as trim is concerned, I would keep it as neutral as possible, the one I paddled was initally trimmed way stern heavy and I thought that every bigger diagonal blew the bow around. It was hard to work the bow edge when it was trimmed that way.

TGG!