:: Feedback ::
Don’t know what boat to get? Here is some feedback from Fenn surfski buyers.
Background: Recreational sea kayak and whitewater paddler, purchased a XT.
“I love the surf ski!!! I have definitely never been in anything so fast. It also has the perfect amount of instability to give me the challenge to get use to it without being too discouraging. I tipped out 3 times in my first half hour of paddling, all good practice for climbing back on. Am glad you talked me out of the Millenium! I don't know how you guys stay on them in the rough seas and waves etc, am looking forward to finding out though.”
Background:
Top multisport/adventure racing competitor, purchased a Millenium
“Paddled the ski tonight, amazing, kayaking for me has entered another realm, should have got one years ago!”
Background: Multisport competitor, purchased a Tarpon
“The new ski worked really well in the Head2Head - saved me a few swims and a lot of concentration. It must have made me think that I was a Surf lifesaver though as I stopped a couple of times to help guys who had fallen out of their multisport boats.”
Background:
Purchased a Millenium
“I’ve been
for two paddles so far and I love it.”
“The ski you sold me is fantastic, I’m really enjoying paddling it.”
“The Fenn is still going great, only problem with it is it’s too long for my garage so I had to cut a hole in the back wall to fit it in. There’s about a meter of Fenn sticking out the back of my garage..”
Background: Active sea kayak paddler, paddling a XT.
“Today was the day when your Fenn Ski got christened in Fiji sea water. I took it for a run over to the Safari Lodge Villa at the windsurfing beach of Nanaui I Ra island and back. I am thrilled with it!”
Multisport/Adventure Race paddler, Current boats – UFO, various K1’s, XT
“I normally paddle fast boats on rivers and flat water. When purchasing a ski I wanted a boat that I could just hang out on and have fun no matter what the conditions. The XT is perfect. It is like comparing a mountain bike to a highly strung road bike…stable and just a wicked amount of fun.
While a Millenium is faster in flat water, at my level of paddling the XT is very close in the rough and way more fun.”
From Canada …
“About two years ago I purchased a Tarpon from DeAnne at Ocean Paddlesports in California. I just wanted to take a second to tell you what a magnificent boat it is.“
Another happy ski paddler
“Just a note to say that I am really enjoying the Millenium. Absolutely stoked with it actually! I've found it so much more predictable & forgiving in sloppy conditions than a multisport boat of similar speed capability. It doesn't bite in all the wrong places like most quick multisport boats do offshore, meaning that you can keep the hammer down whereas in a Multisport boat you'd be brace stoke after brace stroke. Surfing it is no problem at all & a hell of a lot of fun. Did a lot of paddling in it & surfing in Tairua. I've found that paddling the ski improves my strength, skills & stability on rivers & in multisport kayaks & even the K1.”
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