In article , "Padeen"
writes:

Duckies shine over Allys in one major situation: big, crashing, class III or
higher ww; they don't sink and they stay in one piece. But they don't
sidesurf, keep you up out of the water, track worth a ****, or glide like a
canoe. And they are butt-ugly!

Butt-ugly!! Not! :^).

IK's sidesurf fine if the boats are set up with thighstraps and you have some
expectations on what the boat will do in that situation. Tracking, glide and
speed are not a feature of many whitewater boats made today, kayak, canoe or
IK.
However, Ik's like the Super Lynx or the Innova Sunny track very well and have
better forward speed than most canoes that are capable of even mild whitewater.
The two inflatable canoes that I've tried all track as well a tandem whitewater
canoe and the forward speed isn't too bad, but the width on both don't allow
for much glide.

The downside on IK's are that they are wet and the tubes limit the amount of
gear space that is available. I haven't found that to be much of an issue with
modern
lightweight backpacking style gear. You can still carry enough gear to be prety
comfortable.


SYOTR
Larry C.