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I am going to guess that it is some sort of old ww boat. Perhaps from the 70s. What I call “a point and shoot”. That means it carries some speed and holds a line. I am going to guess it is pretty easy to roll. You will have to work a bit harder to initiate turns than in modern ww boats. It probably has very little rocker. The cockpit is small for a ww boat and it lacks a back band and the seat will feel hard after a few hours of paddling. All of that doesn’t mean you can’t have some fun it on a calmer lake or river. Enjoy!
Here’s an old video I made with my buddy JD. Point and shoot paddling in technical whitewater. I’ve shared it before. I kind of cringe when I watch it. My form is terrible. I’m in the white boat and I was strictly c1ing at that time but tried kayaking in an old holoform. My buddy forget his sprayskirt for his c1. I gave him my skirt from my gyramax c1 so we could all paddle. The holoform was being delivered to someone as a starter boat. You don’t have to have the right boat if you have the youth, physicality and skills. None of which I have now. https://youtu.be/-AgzF83g-1M
That you so much and I love the video, do you know what spraySkirt I would need when mine is up and running
don’t have a clue, going to be hard to find because cockpits were smaller on those boats and not keyholed. Best to measure and contact skirt manufacturers. I personally use seal skirts but I haven’t gone custom. the deck size is going to be smaller than the modern boats.
The British spray skirt maker PeakUK makes a range of sizes and shapes that cover a wider range than most US companies including for smaller and ronder coamings. Only problem may be lack of US vendors having stock due to the chaos this year over tariffs uncertainty. I noticed recently that my previous source, Umingmaq outfitters in Wisconsin, doesn”t stock them now.
One of the largest OEM factories is in Upstate NY. Some fabrics may get dinged with tariffs, but the vast majority of manufacturing for that product in in the US.
I took a fresh look at Umingmaq’s site last night and I see the PeakUK skirts are back on their shop listing. I can attest that their small shop has been super helpful in the past when I have ordered from them, especially in finding the right skirt size.