Check out the review Peter sent me after finishing his F1 build. It’s great seeing these builds happening around the world, and awesome to hear from people out enjoying their boats:
“After a reasonable bit of flat water paddling and paddling in strong winds I finally got it out into some rough water, well rough enough for me at this stage. Swell was about 1.2 to 1.5 meters wind around 15-20knots gusting to 25 knots and about a 2′ wave breaking on shore.
Once I got out past the small shore break I encountered a real sloppy section of water that was created by a channel running through the Port Noarlunga. Interesting to say the least. Found the F1 a little bit tippy at first, took me about 20 minutes to settle in and relax myself. Once feeling good the F1 came into its own. Secondary stability is amazing, the kayak felt right at home in those conditions, it was only me that took awhile. It din’t matter where you pointed it, it handled the conditions superbly. In the heavy swell, whether going into, running parallel, or going with it, there was never a moment that I thought I would be dumped in the water, the secondary stability just works (what more can you say). I was with 7 other paddlers from my canoe club on a training day. One of the training exercises was to paddle in and around the jetty pilings by using a forward and revers sweep stroke and edging the kayaks. They were amazed at how well and how quickly the F1 could perform this manoeuvre in very strong winds and about 18″ to 2′ of wind waves in the shelter of the reef. So all in all I couldn’t be happier with the F1, it performed well beyond my expectations…. A FANTASTIC KAYAK BRIAN WELL DONE.”
Be sure to check out Peter’s blog of his build at builds.capefalconkayaks.com – he made some great modifications including a sail and pump setup.
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