"John Fereira" wrote in message . ..
(ckayak) wrote in news:1bd7a8d0.0308122031.59e7ec16
@posting.google.com:
Categorically stating that it's unsafe to paddle whitewater (even class II
or lower) in a recreational boat implies that a whitewater boat somehow
makes a paddler safer. Boats don't make paddlers safer. Experience,
training, and common sense makes paddlers safer.
I disagree completely. Non-WW designs are much more edgy, much harder to keep upright, and much more likely to result in a swim.
They can be paddled successfully in WW but it takes experience and skill which a novice does not possess.
The original poster in this thread just didn't want to buy another hull and figured he could take his rec kayak in WW. My first
thoughts were, this guy is obviously inexperienced with WW and even if he possessed the skills to complete a WW run in a rec kayak,
who wants that headache ? It can be done but it's no fun !
Doesn't this discussion belong in the WW paddling newsgroup anyhow ?
Te Canaille