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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Kids SOF advice
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 5/2/2011, 12:50 am
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: Kids SOF advice (Allan)

: Having seen well over a hundred 8 to 15 year olds in canoes and
: kayaks, my impression is that the problem is not that the kayak
: is not sufficiently stable, but that he thinks it is not stable.
: As you have said that he is not a heavyweight, my observations
: confirm what Tom has said. 19" is quite wide for a child's
: kayak. I assume that you have the seat as low as is practical.

: It is not unusual for people, both adults and children, to have
: quite unfounded fears about the stability of kayaks or the
: danger of being trapped in them. So your son's reluctance is not
: unique. Usually they overcome those fears with a little bit of
: encouragement and some time in the kayak. Unfortunately, I don't
: think there is a "one size fits all" solution. Several
: people here have offered some useful ideas. As you know your son
: better than we do, I guess you will just have to try whichever
: ideas you think he will respond best to.

: My advice for what it is worth is to try any or all of the ideas
: offered here, but don't whatever you do, buy him a wide plastic
: kayak. What he has now is a vastly superior craft.

I have a few friends that spent years in bigger boats that won't get near a kayak for fear of getting trapped, not all that an uncommon of an emotion even for adults.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Kids SOF advice
Peter B -- 4/29/2011, 8:52 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Kids SOF advice
Bill Hamm -- 4/29/2011, 9:18 am
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Peter B -- 4/29/2011, 9:22 am
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Bill Hamm -- 4/29/2011, 9:32 am
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Peter B -- 4/29/2011, 9:39 am
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Bill Hamm -- 4/29/2011, 9:48 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Kids SOF advice *PIC*
Tom Yost -- 4/29/2011, 10:20 am
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Doug S -- 4/29/2011, 10:41 am
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Charlie -- 4/29/2011, 10:59 am
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Clayton Plunkett -- 4/29/2011, 11:14 am
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Foster -- 4/29/2011, 12:04 pm
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Peter B -- 4/29/2011, 12:27 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 4/29/2011, 2:32 pm
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Tom Yost -- 4/29/2011, 11:20 am
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Charlie -- 4/29/2011, 4:56 pm
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Tom Yost -- 4/29/2011, 8:24 pm
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Charlie -- 4/30/2011, 12:53 am
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Bill Hamm -- 4/30/2011, 7:12 am
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Tom Yost -- 4/30/2011, 10:06 am
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George in Va -- 4/30/2011, 4:09 pm
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Peter B -- 4/30/2011, 4:17 pm
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Farback -- 4/29/2011, 11:40 am
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StephenHJ -- 4/29/2011, 11:43 am
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Tom Yost -- 4/29/2011, 11:54 am
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Ken Brunton -- 5/1/2011, 10:50 am
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Kevin McAtee -- 7/21/2011, 7:38 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Kids SOF advice
Dean -- 4/29/2011, 2:13 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Kids SOF advice
Peter B -- 7/17/2011, 9:41 pm
Ballast?? *NM*
Tony Ling -- 7/22/2011, 4:52 pm
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Mark Seilis -- 4/30/2011, 12:06 pm
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StephenHJ -- 4/30/2011, 3:33 pm
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Allan -- 5/1/2011, 7:15 am
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Bill Hamm -- 5/2/2011, 12:50 am
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Mike Savage -- 5/2/2011, 7:24 am
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Bill Hamm -- 5/3/2011, 1:38 am
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Mike Savage -- 5/3/2011, 7:28 am
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Peter B -- 5/3/2011, 4:24 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 5/4/2011, 1:46 am
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Peter B -- 7/21/2011, 3:10 pm
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Allan -- 7/21/2011, 6:24 pm
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 7/22/2011, 8:00 am