The Cetus awaits it pilot…..
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Hello everybody, I’d like to introduce myself to the P&H Paddlers world. I work for Saltwater Sports, a kayak outfitter in Southwest Florida and love paddling sea kayaks. I am very excited to join this wonderful team. I got my Cetus LV a couple months ago and have fallen in love with it. I have paddled British boats since the beginning and never have paddled anything close to the performance of it.
Rough water paddling and surfing is my favorite part of kayaking. Expedition paddling and rolling would be the next favorite. The LV enabled me to progress so much further in my rolling it’s unbelievable.
I can’t wait to get my new Team Boat and really do some tripping. Hopefully we get some surf soon and I can get some good reports up. The Cetus LV is by far my dream boat and I look forward to posting some hardcore trip reports.
It’s time for me to introduce myself as the newest member of the P&H paddlers family. I’m Kate and I’m the proud owner of a lovely, shiny, red Cetus LV. Here’s a short account of its first time on the water.
Having unwrapped layer after layer of plastic and cardboard and revealed my new boat in all its red and white beauty, I didn’t feel I could consign it to the shed straight away, so she spent a fortnight in my living room. It made getting to the kitchen a bit of an obstacle course, but it did mean I could admire the unmarked shining gelcoat.
Finally, work was done for the week and I could go paddling. The first launch was at Trearddur Bay on Anglesey. The weather was too rough for real paddling so we had to make do with a bit of surfing.
The Cetus LV is lovely and light, an easy one person carry.
Here’s the moment I had been waiting for.
And finally afloat.
A few wobbly moments later and I was getting used to a lovely lively boat.
photo by Jim Krawiecki
All in all I think it’s a grand boat. It’s fast, and narrow just where the paddle goes. It’s incredibly manouvrable, and whilst it’s happy sitting up on an edge, it doesn’t really need a lot of edge to turn. I think I’m going to really enjoy paddling it. Just need some decent weather to give it a good run out.
It´s always fun to take my cetus out for for the usual trip at may home lake.
I love to see new places all over the world, but I am always happy to be back home on “my ” lake too.
Here are pics form this lovely afternoon with the peace of paddling
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