Wilko,
I take your word -- you're not a sea kayaker.
I've seen sea kayaks paddled in ww races, as at Great Falls, Maryland,
USA. And most of us have sea paddled our ww kayaks. A ww kayak is far
superior to a sea kayak in sea surf, and I don't even consider using a sea
kayak in surf any more. Heck, I even like to paddle my ww boat (Riot
Hammer -- a 9' behomith by today's ww standards) in the sea when I'm not
going far or fast because ww boats require good paddling technique.
What's more important -- where you paddle or what you paddle?
If I'm in ww, in a ww boat, swimming (unintentionally), in a sea kayak,
or a raft, I consider it ww kayaking . And so for sea.
Al K

Al, I'm not a sea kayaker, I just surf in the sea surf in my playboat
(used to be in longer boats with more volume) and I've paddled a sea kayak
once or twice.

IMO that makes me a WW kayaker with some playboating tricks up his sleeve
(which helps to get out of some holes and other nasty situations) and just
enough surfing experience to not having had to swim in the sea for the
last decade. :-)

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Eindhoven The Netherlands Europe
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