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What's your favorite playboat?

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So I'm beginning to have more and more fun with my amp C1 sinking ends and stuff, and I was just wondering, what are your favorite playboat?

Today's designs are getting smaller and slower and without even willing to throw a loop at all, I was just wondering what you guys are liking.

I guess atoms are great to mess around in, and I would love to see a plastic Sith around in the market, but that's nowhere near to happen I would guess... My amp is narrow (24inches) and I would love to have my hands on a fun C1 that's more stable, easy to paddle, can sink ends and still get *some* way forward... 8)

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Atoms are fun! They throw great enders!
That's about the closest to a C-1 playboat I've paddled.[/list]
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I have paddled a converted Amp - and did have fun with it. But I am glad I held out and bought a Drakkar Wheelboy. It is a nicely set-up play boat. I have heard that only 14 of them made there way into the US. If you can find one and are under 200 lbs. - grab it. My 2 cents.
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Always been the Crazy, ever since I first paddled it as a 'Yak i knew it was right, which was why i converted it... Narrow, but great secondary stablity and the rails allow you to unleash so much energy on the wave! (if only i had the skills to control that properly)

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I've been raving about the LL session since I first got one. It has a nice wide flat bottom it is long enough to gain some speed and the ends are squashed like a squirt boat.

I've got one for sale.

On the other hand I've been really excited about what I've been seeing of the Fluid Nemesis and the Jackson All Star.
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marclamenace wrote:...I would love to see a plastic Sith around in the market, but that's nowhere near to happen I would guess... My amp is narrow (24inches) and I would love to have my hands on a fun C1 that's more stable, easy to paddle, can sink ends and still get *some* way forward... 8)

Thanks!
If you like the Sith, but want plastic get a Forplay. It's not as stable as the Sith, weighs almost double & is nowhere near as stiff. That said, it's 8'1" so it's not a super pig. It spins well for plastic. It is better than the Sith for enders (I could sink the bow & land on the stern).

If you want a great all around boat, get a Sith. It's funny when folks ask me if I had the boat designed for my local wave 8) It's not much more $$ than a new plastic boat. If you figure the time, materials & effort to convert you're $$ ahead to have a Sith built.
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