Dagger Prophet

yarnellboat · Post by **yarnellboat** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 8:23 pm

I've seen a few Dagger Prophets for sale recently, but I can't picture the boat. This website lists it as 11'11" and "dry & agile with lots of rocker". I can picture the longer Encore, were they similar boats?

What does a Prophet compare too. At <12' and dry & agile it sounds like a decent boat?

Thanks, Pat.

Post by **sbroam** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 8:30 pm

Google to the rescue!

http://www.geocities.jp/symasajp/dagger1.htm

Maybe babelfish can translate that...

yarnellboat · Post by **yarnellboat** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 10:09 pm

Thanks Scott, Cool! Who speaks Japanese? Interesting that there's no Genesis, Encore or Phantom on that site, maybe those were just what was in production at that time?

I did Google the Prophet, but all I found was this site, and you can't see much in the photos: http://www.carlwoodard.com/html/canoeing.html

Maybe I get the Prophet and Encore mixed up because they were both made in pink?

Sure looks like A LOT of rocker on the Prophet. Anyone know how it paddles?

P.

Post by **sbroam** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 10:33 pm

It's been a long time and I'm certainly a different paddler than I was then, but.... I really didn't like it - it wobbled, wouldn't track, and I swam out of it. Of course now I think a Slasher is fun and a couple of years ago moved into a "longer" boat by swapping an Ultra-Clean for a Score...

A friend tried to paddle a borrowed Prophet down the Upper Gauley and thought it preferable to haul it up the trail at Pillow Rock...

But then again, there are folks who love it!