Today I went to meet Dave Savage of Downtime kayaks to float chop my first custom squirt boat. Dave first moulded the deck and hull and added a cockpit, before roughly chopping the two parts for my weight. The two halves were then taped together with gaffer tape to allow me to sit in the boat an float it on the water. Dave’s keen eye was looking for a balanced boat, the rate at which the bow plunged (a good sign is if a bow screw can be initiated from a forward lean) and sizing up the areas in which more volume could be chopped out.
Dave’s own Wisper (the first one from the mould in the UK) is a mystery machine, he can go neck deep on flat water. Whilst over in Wales for the day, Dave also explored the eddies at Aberglasyn and found that even in the low flows of the day, the crystal waters gave up two or three second head-unders in the Wisper.
I’ll be keeping my eye on the Lledr, Menai Strait (and now Aberglaslyn) for mystery opportunities, so do check in to find out what’s going. See what Dave has done with my boat below.
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