: No bad traits. It carves nice, decent stability, decent tracking. My only
: negative is that the deck is high and I wack my knuckles on the shear.

Good info! I want a nice stable boat for fishing and photography. Some shorter trips too. Boat sounds good for that.

Your comments about the deck bothers me. I tend to bang the paddle on a lower deck boat when I get tired. I can see some bruised knuckles. I thought it looked a little tall. Looks like it would be simple enough to lower the deck on it though. I don't really need a high volume boat, medium volume would work just fine for me. But if you lower the sides, you lower the bow too. Hummm......

OK something to think on.