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Re: Sea Kayaks for Kids
Posted By: John D. In Response To: Re: Sea Kayaks for Kids (John Montgomery)
Date: Thursday, 20 January 2005, at 1:15 a.m.
From our experience here, a 20 inch beam is getting would work OK, but another consideration is the deck height -- even in his my 12 year old prefers to insert a pad to hold him in the cockpit tighter. For whatever you end up with, it'd be worth looking at outfitting the cockpit to get a good fit, to make sure they aren't just sitting loosely in the boat. And, it still depends a lot on the kid and the skills. The boat aside, getting on the water and paddling is what matters the most. Even our 26" wide Skimmer has been a good learning boat, especially in that it doesn't like to go straight on its own, forcing the kids to learn a how to make it go straight, but they do have to do kind of a funky stroke in such a wide boat.
-John D.
: That is exactly what I want to avoid.
: So you think a 20 inch beam is still too big for the under 10 or 11 set? One
: of my bigger decisions here seems to be whether to get one boat for ages 7
: to 14 or two boats in succession over that same time period.: As for building a boat for him, my problem isn't time, it's space. I live in
: a small cabin and have no access to a shop or garage. John
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