11-14-2005, 12:03 PM
That looks like it would be a "bear" of a boat to try to manuever - I've had a 17.5 foot white water raft and a 14 foot dingy of one - they are not build for manuevering but, for stability. Perhaps, if your primary water was a class 1 or maybe a class 2(if you're gutsy and only take the cheapest of fishing gear that you wouldn't care if it went overboard in a class two rapid) it would work out ok - but I would be concerned with that gapping hole in the bottom on anything larger than a class one ripple. On still water though, you would be hard pressed to cover any water at all with that beast - you would actually do better in your float tube. Being a smaller watercraft of that particluar raft-like design would not make it more manueverable, just less stable than it's bigger siblings. At least that's how it looks through the eyes of my experience.
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