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Dave Van wrote in
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Brian Nystrom at wrote on 5/26/04 6:13 AM:

Impex boats are well built and have an good reputation. They did have
problems with leaky hatches when they were using fibglass covers, but
that's been dealt with by switching to rubber hatches. Their boats are
pretty lightly constructed and have thin gelcoat, but I haven't seen
any problems with durability with their vacuum bagged layups. The only
problem I've seen more than once on them is cracked cheek plates on
the seats, but that's on boats that are a few years old. This may have
been addressed, but I don't know for certain. They have a solid
reputation for customer service, so I wouldn't worry too much.

Hi Brian,

Good supportive statements about Impex. Every day I get a little closer
to taking the steps to buy an Impex kayak and this kind of statement
from a person I respect helps a lot.

Currituck or Assateague, that is the question that only test paddles
can answer. Too bad the nearest Impex dealer is 250 miles away!

Where do you live?

Yesterday I looked at a Currituck and Assateague side by side. I've only
paddled the Currituck but the Assateague look much bigger. Which one is
best will more likely be determined by your body size as much as how each
boat paddles.