dryboater Posted September 18, 2020 Report Share Posted September 18, 2020 Hi - I am deciding on a SOF design kayak to build, but I need one that will roll well for ocean use. Does anyone have any experience with rolling the Kudzu designs and which ones roll well? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy00 Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 No direct evidence, but the general rules are that smaller beam is better and multi-chine is better. Therefore, Long Shot and Firefly look like the best bets. If you want a boat with even less beam, you need to check out yostwerks.org. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trakka Posted September 22, 2020 Report Share Posted September 22, 2020 cnckayaks.com have a specific design for rolling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy00 Posted September 22, 2020 Report Share Posted September 22, 2020 7 hours ago, Trakka said: cnckayaks.com have a specific design for rolling Those boats are stitch-and-glue or wood strip. Nothin' wrong with that, but they ain't skin-on-frame. Yostwerks is all SOF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryboater Posted September 22, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2020 Thank you all. I am intrigued by the CNC desugns and mission but having built two plywood boats and one Gentrycustomboats.com SOF design, the SOF build process was by far more enjoyable (I really liked lashing and it is incredibly hardy) and produced a boat just as tough and useful as the other two, so I will stick with SOF. Gentry's Disko Bay design I know rolls; just not sure if the Kudzu fantails in Long Shot and baidarka will get in the way of that. I don't roll for fun, just need it for survival maybe. Thanks again for all advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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