Like all good purchases this should be done straight from the internet, and with no previous inspection! It is armed with this knowledge we head for ebay and with three well armed clicks, we have purchased a Puma XP-85 (sounds brilliant)
Not having a clue what it is which we have just bought, I decide to knock up some V-bars out of some batten I had left over from the recent building work we had done and we drive up to Woking to pick up the boat.
Securely strapped to the roof of the car (not on the homemade V-bars, which broke immediately) we drive back home, and place the kayak on the grass for a a simulated paddle.
I do hope you are grasping how professional we are here!
It was deemed, with my stature, that I should go in the front, so in I slip.
"I don't fit!" comes the call from behind.
"Don't be daft" I exclaim
"Seriously......I can't even squeeze in!"
I don't think that I have yet pointed out that Big is in fact a 6ft 5in, 18st, 2nd row rugby player. Not your typical kayaker!
His hips (being polite) are wider than the cockpit.
Well, not to be beaten, I pull out the jigsaw, cut the rear cockpit off and decide to make the rear cockpit entrance a bit wider.
Nobody said it was easy!
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