playboats

[jakebs]

I am 55kg an 5'11" because of this most of the playboats that I can fit into are ment for someone double my weight
. Could I please have some sugestions on what playboats will alow me to do all the moves.
Thanks

[chris]

A friend of mine has exactly the same problem but on a larger scale- hes 6'3! try any of the new really short boats really (riot air is supposed to fit big people well) because your knees are higher which means your legs dont go so far down.
other than that I dunno

[Will]

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you want something that is nice and slicey - like a small wavesport ace - I fit in it and I'm 6'1 yet am skinny and can cartwheel it very easily....and I'm selling one. Make me an offer!! oldwill@luucc.co.uk
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sorry about that.
other suggestions would be the new kingpin 6.2 - again I can fit in that but it's pretty small... any of the smaller liquid logic boats also. The wavesport EZ is also pretty easy to fit into yet is small enough to throw around and makes a decent river boat too.

[conoroneill]

My wife has just put up a Dagger Ultrafuge for sale in the 'For Sale' forum, at £300.

[Jim]

"try any of the new really short boats really (riot air is supposed to fit big people well)"

Mark demoed an Air on the Wenatchee, of course I tried it out too, especially as he was struggling with it and grumbling a lot. The Air is made to do one thing only, get air through olli's, it will do this extremely well but otherwise feels terribly unbalanced and almost impossible to paddle (half the time you can't reach the water for a paddle stroke). Like I say it excels at what it's meant to do, it's almost impossible to bury the bow in the first part of the move - and that should indicate something.....

All I can suggest is trying all the boats you can find, people are reporting wildly different amounts of footroom in boats that look the same or are new variants of last years design and I really haven't bothered to keep notes on which are which.

JIM