: Hi Ben

: I whipped it pretty hard and had to come in and catch my breath (I'm a
: runner, upper body is not used to this). Josh took it out, he is 15 and
: about 100 lbs, so it was like trying to sit on a big old cork for him,
: kinda tippy but he did fine. Jean was making all kinds of hand and arm
: motions watching him like she was a back seat driver.

: After his second time out, I took off again, this time I moved the seat
: forward which I now think was exactly the wrong thing to do, believe it
: make it plow some. I could have went across the lake very easy if it was
: not for my company waiting on the shore. The girls decided not to try it.

My boys like paddling the boat a little TOO much, they rode their bikes down and met me in the middle of a long paddle (for me...10 miles) Saturday morning and it took me almost an hour to get the boat back. I might need to get a shock collar or something like that.

I need to get footpegs in still and definately have work to do to get the seat workable. The backband I made was too low to do any good, probably lack of footpegs made it much worse, and don't have a permanent seat in yet. Did manage to pick up a sprayskirt though. The Harmony touring skirt was $52 at REI, writing out the check was so much easier than making one!!