Weston, Get the Mini!
Seaotter, Get the Sunfish!
I’ve got both and love both.
More smiles all around.
Breeze Bender speaks...everyone should listen...
And it sounds like someone is quietly building an Alcort/AMF collection
Love it. You can continue the theme in a different way for your canoe with one of these names:My four sailboats are named One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, and Blue fish. Anyone with grandkids will get it. Joni is going to paint their names and suitable art work on them next Spring. The Grumman sailing canoe doesn’t fit the whole “Fish” theme, but that’s ok.
Ha you are getting me closer, but I'm still a bit on the fence, BreezeBender.Weston, Get the Mini!
Seaotter, Get the Sunfish!
I’ve got both and love both.
More smiles all around.
I was pondering the Minifish/Sunfish question as I packed up my kayaks for a camping trip this weekend (yes, I am taking my Minifish as well) I have a 16 foot Old Town tandem/solo kayak. It is fast, comfortable, and can carry a huge load of camping gear. It can handle almost any kind of weather, wind, and waves that I am likely to encounter. It was originally quite expensive, and Old Town is a quality brand.'Guess I'm lucky.
I have a carpet of thick grass on which to pull my Sunfish down to the water.
...and you've posted after Midnight, so today I can wish you a Happy Birthday!
I was pondering the Minifish/Sunfish question as I packed up my kayaks for a camping trip this weekend (yes, I am taking my Minifish as well) I have a 16 foot Old Town tandem/solo kayak. It is fast, comfortable, and can carry a huge load of camping gear. It can handle almost any kind of weather, wind, and waves that I am likely to encounter. It was originally quite expensive, and Old Town is a quality brand.
My wife’s kayak is a cheap 9 foot pelican brand kayak. It is at best a mediocre kayak in many ways.It’s best feature is that it has a kind of dry storage area where you can put your wallet. It is the type of kayak that paddlers laugh at. My wife wanted it because it was purple, and we bought it because she wasn’t sure that, after 30 years of paddling together in one boat, she really wanted her own.
Ok, this is my point: in many ways her boat is more fun.
It is so small and light that it is a joy to paddle. It is maneuverable almost to a fault. It is easy to launch and recover. It is just a lot less hassle to deal with. It has been a great boat for her to learn on.
That’s kind of what the Sunfish/Minifish comparison is like (although the Minifish is just as well built as the Sunfish. I think it is Actually more rigid). The Minifish is more maneuverable and easier to control. Especially if you don’t weigh a lot. It is a great boat to learn on because it gives one immediate feed back. It is a case where less is more in some ways.