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Should I do it?

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Topic: Should I do it?
Posted By: Wiggins
Subject: Should I do it?
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2011 at 1:07am
I had been looking for a good price on a Prelude OC1 canoe ( http://www.esquif.com/2008/canot_en.php?id=29 - http://www.esquif.com/2008/canot_en.php?id=29  ) for a while, but then I found a deal on a L'edge and jumped on it. The L'edge is a better boat for a person of my size, and I am happy with it.
 
Now over on Cboats.net someone has two Prelude hulls with gunnels for sale for $250 each.
 
I don't need the boat, I don't really have room for another one, and I am on the heavy side for the boat. On the other hand it would be a fun project to build one back to its former glory, it would be a skill builder boat, and it is just plain cool.
 
What should I do?
 
Kyle


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Posted By: doggievacation
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2011 at 6:45am
Oh, I don't know... go kayaking?

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Posted By: Courtney
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2011 at 9:41am

If I have three good reasons for not doing something then I don't,  Looks like you have 3 good reasons.  If you're happy with the L'edge then I'd stick with it.  However if your heart just really aches for  the PreLude and you would be thinking about it forever if you didn't purchase it then go for it. 

Courtney

Posted By: Lynn Wang
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2011 at 10:31am
I say: buy it, enjoy bringing its beauty back, try it out and if it isn't your fit, sell it for cheap knowing it's going back out there in better shape than when you got it. 

Posted By: Jed Hawkes
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2011 at 11:55am
I say only buy it if it's expand the quiver. But if you have a L'edge then chances are you won't paddle it that much. Considering your over the weight range of an already unstable boat, it's likely you won't enjoy the paddling experience. But if you want to get the boat so you can outfit it and have as a fun project, than go for it, but I'd say that once it's sea worthy it'll be a mere museum piece in the garage and not a practical craft considering the other boats that you already own.

The Prelude is a piece of whitewater history and should be appreciated for what it has done to the Open boating community, but then again so is a Dagger Ocoee, Probe, or other classic designs.

The question I ask myself when buying a new boat is "is this hull design uniquely different from the other boats I have in the quiver?" For instance I recently bought a Corsica S even though I already have a "longboat" (Dagger Outburst), but my justification with the Corsica was that the diference in volume and rocker profile (more of a creek design than playboat design) justified the purchase. Price doesn't hurt either.



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Posted By: Wiggins
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2011 at 9:40pm
Originally posted by Lynn Wang

I say: buy it, enjoy bringing its beauty back, try it out and if it isn't your fit, sell it for cheap knowing it's going back out there in better shape than when you got it. 
 
Sounds like some one is angling for a cheap new boat!
 
Kyle


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