Necky Chatham 17, Is a good all round Sea kayak.

I've owned and paddled many types of boats over the years but the years have caught up with me. I've become focused on comfort. That's why I am now a proud owner of a Clipper Sea 1 Decked Canoe. After a full season of paddling her I can truely say I bought the right type of boat. She's fast and very comfortable. I almost never get blown off the river with it'd low profile. At 55 lbs. it about the same weight as most good kayaks. I can easly spend all day in her. I can reach everything in the boat from the seat. It's a great camera platform. Give one a try and you be suprised!

Favourite kayak? Hard to settle on just one. If I could afford it I would be like a "car collector" and just fill up a "boat garage".

However, having said that, I have in the past owned/paddled: Boreal Ellesmere - regular and ocean cockpit; enjoyed, but since it was at the front end of my paddling obsesion it was likely more boat than I could properly handle. Enjoyed P&H Capella - older 16.6 poly boat. Like the Explorer and found the Romany to small for me.

The middle portion of my obsession took me to a P&H Quest. Big boat and very forgiving. It was this boat that got me into rock and surf play.

Now that I'm in advanced obsession I'm thrilled with my P&H (notice a trend) Cetus. The Cetus is a great craft - somehow combining all aspects of stability,liveliness and playfullness. I've had a great times of rock hopping and meandering - avoiding only those areas where it's not possible to bend a nearly 18 ft boat through; and surfing - enjoying burying an 18 ft boat up to the cockpit in wave. I've enjoyed the P&H boats quite a bit over the last 3 to 4 years and will likely settle on a Cetus MV (just trying to reduce the volume a little - I paddle an LV great handling boat but I'm definitely over the "ideal" paddler weight for it) as well as trying out and possibly purchasing one of the new smaller boats - the Aries/Delphin for specific rock and surf play. I did say I'd likely fill a garage.

So when all is said and done: P&H for me and more spcifically the Cetuses or is that Ceti??? ok Cetus family

Well, I just acquired a used Rapier 20 and although its unsettling in the wind and waves it sure moves like glory on the shinny surface - absolutely loving it

I have been paddling a Hurricane Tampico 140S for the past two years and could not be happier with this remarkable boat. It's been off the Atlantic coast in 2-4 foot swells, is stable no matter what I throw at it and traks like the big boys.