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more performance oriented than a ducky? If I made a hard hulled boat the size or a raft, and told you it was higher performance than a kayak, would you believe it? cause I think a kayak can outmanuever a dory ...
IKs are like any other ww market segment -- there are boats that run the gamut from beginner/rec boats to precision high performance boats. Just because the majority of IK paddlers are commercial customers with no experience who are swimming on class III is not the fault of the boat.
There's no way ANY small cat or raft is higher performance than a performance IK (read Stiletto, Thrillseeker, Vista, Force, etc). I boat with solid paddlers in those type of boats all the time. They just can't catch the eddies a kayak can, or make the ferries a kayak can, or boof like a kayak can ... or ... or ... or ...
but its a lot of fun to see what people do in the different boats.
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