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chuck naill · Post by **chuck naill** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 12:13 am

Has anyone converted Perception Amp? THe cockpit is so big and it looks like a decent playable hull.

Chuck/Knoxville

Mike W. · Post by **Mike W.** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 12:50 am

I've got one. The Amp is a little faster than my Big ez. That helps me make some of the moves that I mis in the Big. While it's good on a wave, it doesn't carve quite as well as the Big does. It's easy to stern or bow squirt too. I think the length keeps it from bobbing front to back, which makes ferries a lot better than the Big.

This boat was already converted when I got it. It has the Perception saddle. I've been thinking that if I'm going to keep it I should put in some hip pads. It would spin even better then

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Post by **sbroam** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 2:02 am

Chuck -

What do you weigh? I converted one for a friend and paddled it some and can assert that at 210# it is a bit "squirty"...

Scott

chuck naill · Post by **chuck naill** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 11:39 am

I weigh around 180 and presently use a GTX conversion. THanks for the feedback.

Chuck

Post by **sbroam** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 4:09 pm

When this came up, I'd forgotten that I'd documented the conversion of an Amp I did this summer :

http://bookwoman.net/scott/paddling/Amp_conversion/

It's pretty roomy in there - even though it was pretty low volume for me, it fit me great.

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