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] Date Posted:13:12:04 06/02/04 Wed In reply to:
tom
's message, "Re: Eddyline Merlin XT" on 20:33:51 05/08/04 Sat
>Bought a Merlin XT a few weeks ago. My first Kayak.
>My first experience was a little scary but I stayed
>dry thanks to a patient friend. It is not a wide body
>rec Kayak
It's a very playful boat, handles amazingly well. Once you are over the initial curve you will love that boat. You can get them to do things a lot of other boats can't as far as maneuverability goes.
>Looking for suggestions
>for a good fitting skirt. I e mailed eddyline for
>suggestians and they were not particularly helpful.
>Anyway it is a very very high quality boat
I found it a bit odd they don't keep a list of skirt to boat fit in the office myself. Eddyline has been very responsive to any questions I've had or suggestions I've made, but oddly they don't seem to have the full picture together.
I found Snapdragon has a good idea of skirt fit for most boats, they are where I found the hard-to-fit skirt for my Nighthawk 17.5. Depending on which Merlin XT you have, they changed the coaming around a few times, it might even be the same XL Snapdragon that my boat takes.
I'll recommend you go with the neoprene skirt, they are a lot harder to get used to getting on the boat, but they don't come off easily at all and if you have the big cockpit XT that is a big plus. Nylon skirts don't stay on the Eddyline coaming well at all and of course that limits the fun you can have with the boat. You'll soon want the ability to sink the edge of your skirt in the water, the Merlin just begs that from the paddler. A nylon skirt won't work well doing that one bit.
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