Check out the videos, the rough water video is impressive (I thought) And the re-entry video seems to indicate some really decent stability (the re-entry video is really easy to watch over and over... especialy the first segment )
Thoughts, discussion, flamejets???
Posts: 1951 | Location: Fall River, Ma | Registered:: April 25, 2006
People used to fish from row boats until motors came out. Attach a release to the oars and clip in your line. Much different action. Daredevil lures were originally designed to troll behind rowed boats. Rowing imparts a pulse to the lure. I use a stroke then glide sometimes to simulate the oar action on a slow troll.
The older I get, the lighter I want.
Posts: 745 | Location: Arizona | Registered:: January 23, 2006
Ocean Racing shells were big in the Bay Area before I left almost 2 decades ago.
A long time ago in HS I raced in 8 man. So I got an 18' rec model. It easily kept up and passed an OC-6 on a lagoon system anyway.
If a builder gave you access to the inside shell for fish and gear storage you would have something. The model you found has the familar SOT seat. The footwells are very narrow, and mfgs would tumpet their excess reserve buoyancy figures for when the foot wells flooded. But there is absolutely no room aound you could steal without access to the inside hull. Well maybe the oar lock system.
They had an interesting "scupper" in the foot wells. A metal narrow plate you pushed down (hinge was fwd) so H2O would be sucked out when underway. You just had to remember to close it when you stopped.
Certainly solves the yak seat problem below the water line debates floating around KFS.
In addition to speed, a clear advantage over a yak is your looking aft at your trolling rig.
Disadvantage is neck creak to look where your going and learning to keep a staight course while fixing on an aft point.
The things are usually unstable (the racing ones in particular) when the oars are feathered against the hull. So you would have to leave one or both staright out from the sidea while fighting a fish.
I thought about bringing one over to the islands, but opted for an OC-1 instead.
Posts: 1144 | Location: Kailua Kona, HI | Registered:: January 02, 2006
been drooling over these for a year... I might have even posted this before (?) Not that I dont love yak' fishing and paddeling in general.. I just like boats, the 12' looks versitale... and not SO heavy that it couldnt be trailered, cartopped, ot in my case wheeled to the beach
Sorry for being late The Islander looks fishable though the price is a bit steep with all the needed "extras"
It would be a tough sell for folks who fish the mangroves. How much of the stability is contributed by the oars? The folding riggers could be a problem for some one who wanted to get somewhere fast and fold the riggers and fish with a kayak paddle.
The riggers seem to fold over the seat. Still. if anyone gets one and wants to let me try it at Flamingo, just get in touch!
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Posts: 1478 | Location: swamps of southron Flordee | Registered:: December 06, 2005
Well I sweep row for my college and sculling/racing shells rely on the oars to stay up right unless at full speed, with perfect balance, one can get the blades off the water.
I never rowed an open ocean model but i would assume they are only a bit less tippy than say a racing shell(although some of them are very wide). I think they would be a pain though to fish from(couldn't really ever put the oars down unless maybe you rig up some sort of holder for the handles while you fish).
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The Islander looks fishable though the price is a bit steep with all the needed "extras"
