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From the Nose of Our Kayak Chapter 6: Out with the Old and In with the Older!

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From the Nose of Our Kayak Don & Janet Beasley Chapter 6: Out with the Old and In with the Older! View on Silver River From the Nose of Our (new-old) Kayak One thing we'd like to mention to those of you who are new to the sport of kayaking...beware, kayaking  is  addicting and you'll find yourself justifying the numerous kayaks you will come to own over time.  After a year of fun and minimal discovery we decided it was time to move up. We wanted to get away from the softer plastic and move up into a hard plastic body for the kayak. We searched and searched, and finally found the one at the price we wanted to pay. Being it was our first step up, we didn't want to drop a lot of money into it just to try it out.  Our first hard plastic bodied kayak was a Wilderness Systems (tandem) 145T. This particular kayak was new to us, but much older, and shall we say much more "experienced," than our brand new one in which we had started. The seats in t...