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1. 

   GatorBaitsMate
   Member

   Hint , hint Chief !

    I sure wish they had a class for straight kayakers without sails in the EC.

    My wife and I have been paddling kayaks,  without sails, both singles and doubles for twenty years, and last year as well as this year can't find a class for a regular old kayaker.

    I am sure there are many paddlers with seventeen and eighteen foot tupperware or composite kayaks that would be entering the EC if there was a class for them.

    All comments welcome, but please don't advise getting a sail, cause that is not going to happen.

   Jack L

    

    

    

    

   Posted 8 years ago #
2. 

   SandyBottom
   Member

   Class 1 does not require a sail.  I did my first 2 ECs without a sail in Class 1 and I believe  there are actually quite a few in Class 1 who do not use sails.   

   Dawn

   Posted 8 years ago #
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   ZeroTheHero
   Member

   I'm new here but I too thought Class 1 was no sails, but upon further inspection it states that a downwind sail of no more than 1 square meter is allowed.  So I guess I was wrong.

   Posted 8 years ago #
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   Tyro
   Member

   Class two but don't worry about the others in the class just go out and try and finish and remember what I told you last year. Hope to see you next uear at the start.

   Posted 8 years ago #
5. 

   Floatsome
   Member

   I'm not sure how helpful this will be, but Ghostyakr just won the NCC2012 in Class 1 sans sail. He could have been Class 2.

   Dave

   Posted 8 years ago #
6. 

   GatorBaitsMate
   Member

   Thanks Joe (Tyro),

    But I wish that you had said, hope to see you at the finish, rather than "the start" !

   Regards,

   Jack

    

    

   Posted 8 years ago #
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   CaptJackOtter
   Member

   IT IS CLASS 2, a class without sails. It could have some really fast boats per class specs, but I have not seen any during the last 2 NCC that fit those specs. I have entered Class 2 for the last 2 years at NCC challenge for the same reason - no sail. I finished 1st in Class 2 single, 2nd overall in class 2 this year; last year I finished 2nd in single.

   What does it mean - not much! This year I was the only entry in Class 2 single male, while last year there was only two of us. What it really means is that if you have no competition in your class you can brag about how how you finished first or second, but in reality it was 33rd overall.

   For the majority of us, what counts is the adventure and finishing (especially the EC) and the good people you meet along the way. Enjoy whichever class you enter!

   CaptJackOtter

   Posted 8 years ago #
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   stripbuilder
   Member

   I agree with Scott and the others that the real challenge is finishing! For those of us who finished in less than 30 hours this year in the NCC the weather was great, but the weather was bad in the EC which made finishing it at all very hard. I was the only one who finished this year's EC in class 2 solo. Just pick the boat you think will work best for you, no matter the class, and make it your goal to finish before the deadline. You'll end up with some great stories, new paddling friends, and will be telling stories about it years from now to your great-grand children.

   Posted 8 years ago #

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