The article in the Cruising World magazine did cover mostly the trip, but at least we had a beach cat on the cover of a major magazine. I have been a fan of the article's author, Steve Callahan ever sice I read his book "Adrift" (76 days surviving in a liferaft after his sailboat sank off the Canary Islands).



Kirk Newkirk at Key Sailing had one of these boats at his place. I looked it over and it definitely isn't a performance boat. The boat did have a skeg configuration with the rudder behind it, whereby, you would never hit the rudders, because the skeg was deeper and in front of it. The boat is made using the roto-molded process, like a lot of the kayaks you see out now. I imagine that this was a pretty good boat to use for cruising the coast of Maine where the beach landings are few and far between. The plastic boat could handle the rocks a lot better than a fiberglass one. Looks like a good rental boat.



Don