OC2's

bearboater · Post by **bearboater** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 3:11 pm

I agree on the caption, and you may be able to get away with a vertige, not the vertige X, but the regular. they have a lot of buouyancy. I don't know if I'd want to go that much shorter with 365. I think someone said it, but the xl13 may fit the bill. I know you want shorter, but i don't know, i feel that much shorter than that and you'll sacrifice maneuverability to have the length... I felt that the vertige with 330 was great, I weigh 210, and my girlfriend made of the latter part, the weight distribution is great, and the boat tracks well. but it's not the most maneuverable boat on the market.

Yukon · Post by **Yukon** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 3:20 pm

Kaz
that sounds awesome. Pictures please?? whats it cost you to ship a boat to the WestCoast?

pblanc · Post by **pblanc** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 4:47 pm

I think with over 350 lbs in the boat you would sink a 13 footer way down in the water, making it not only slower, but more likely to hang up.

TheKrikkitWars · Post by **TheKrikkitWars** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:04 pm

I just checked my maths, and I cocked up my stone to lbs convertion (I usually think in Kg which is a simple times 2.2, but my potential partners don't), the paddler weight is more likely 300-325lb... If that affects the reccomendations.

Lappie · Post by **Lappie** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:33 pm

I think 300lbs in quite light for a tandem team, and would assume most boats 13 and over that cary there width quite a ways to the ends, would work. I don't know about a MRC OutrageX, I have one and it is prety skiny et the ends and would be a wet ride... I think!?

cadster · Post by **cadster** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 7:39 pm

Showing what's possible in a Probe 14:

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=8399595209

bearboater · Post by **bearboater** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 2:56 am

try and hop in a vertige, and at that weight, I think that if you were really close, you could paddle most things.
-isaac

Shep · Post by **Shep** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 12:24 pm

bearboater wrote:try and hop in a vertige, and at that weight, I think that if you were really close, you could paddle most things.
-isaac

In defense of the Vertige X, my Instructor Trainer paddled one with a triple saddle for our workshop. We had one participant trying to certify as a tandem instructor, so she switched back and forth between tandem and solo. She's probably 5'4" and a normal-frame, athletic woman. She was able to get the Vertige X to do anything I would expect a long solo WW boat to do. Yeah, she's a great paddler (but spends a lot more time in a kayak than canoe), but I was impressed with the flexibility of the Vertige X none-the-less.

Shep

bearboater · Post by **bearboater** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 1:50 pm

they are both good boats, but at the weight of his team, i think they could do either. I too have paddled the X with the triple set up, and it works well for either.

bushpaddler · Post by **bushpaddler** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 8:31 pm

kaz wrote:New tandem boat coming from Millbrook. Sorry but it's NOT plastic. The BANDIT, 13.5' long, based off the PROWLER.
Thanks for reading.

JKaz

Any News about that project?

Flo

kaz · Post by **kaz** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 10:30 pm

Sorry but no. Many trips to NJ to help care for my ailing father has taken all of my attention lately. Just returned home a few hours ago.

JKaz