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CARBON FIBER RINGER PERFORMANCE, SPECS, AND CONSTRUCTION SPECS:
Small: 9′ Long, 24″ wide, 13″ tall, 22 pounds- Paddler Weight Range- 100-180
Medium: 9′ long, 25″ wide, 13.5″ tall, 23 Pounds- Paddler Weight Range- 140-220
Large: 9’5″ long, 26″ wide, 14.5″ tall, 29 pounds- Paddler Weight Range- 180-260
"Let me start off with the obvious- Dead weight hurts a boat’s performance. The lighter the boat is the better it performs and the more enjoyable the overall experience." - EJ
Performance of the Ringer:
Performance related to the construction:
Clearly the #1 reason for making an advanced composites kayak is to reduce the total weight by nearly 1/2 for a freestyle kayak. The following is what you’ll experience:
Picking up, carrying, loading, and unloading become WAY easier and more enjoyable. You’ll be spoiled quickly, however.
Every stroke has way more effect on moving the boat. Turning, accelerating, and doing river running moves, squirts, etc. takes way less effort, and happens with way more snappiness with the same effort.
You’ll be faster.
The number 2 reason for composite freestyle boats is the stiffness. A stiff hull transfers the waters energy into the boat without it flexing and dampening the effect like a plastic boat. Peel-outs, ferries, surfing, landing drops, etc. are all higher performing in a composite boat.
Performance related to the design of the Ringer:
The Ringer has several uses. First, it is an Extreme Slalom (Boatercross) Racing Kayak design. While the carbon fiber version isn’t allowed in ICF Races, it can be raced in many local and regional events in downriver, boater cross, and creek races. The speed of this 9’ boat is off the charts in whitewater. Here are a few reasons for that:
Speed:
The Rocker profile creates maximum acceleration when 45ing, to boofing drops of all sizes. This includes slides.
No kayak paddles “drier” over waves and holes with the ample bow rocker, wide bow, planing hull bow (widest flattest bow hull available).
The slicey squirting stern creates a low drag “pivot turn” or “Squirt Turn” experience and it doesn’t slide out on outside edge turns.
The boat carves can carries its speed on the inside edge for turns/upstreams like no other.
The lightweight accelerates and turns much faster than the plastic boats that are 2 times the weight.
Surfing:
The Ringer has the fastest and loosest hull of any 1/2 slice on a wave. Combine that with the lightweight of this boat and you’ll have a boat that you can round house and spin on waves that other many other 1/2 slices won’t even surf. No compromise on the performance of the hull for looseness. 100% high performance planing hull from end to end. So, front surf, spin around and back surf, spin back to front, grind it sideways, and do freestyle on big waves.
Squirting:
The low volume stern can be squirted vertically in flatwater, or on eddy lines. It is low enough volume to stern stall and be stable. The ample surface area in the stern assures a very stable stern squirt that makes it easier to stay vertical and pirouette.
Down River- Creeking:
In many ways the Ringer is easier than a creek boat for downriver. Easier to turn, boof, ferry, etc.. the only challenge is the squirtable stern. If you are good at squirting and are used to putting the stern to use in maneuvering, and not “catching your edge” a lot, you’ll find downriver to be confidence inspiring, even on the harder stuff. If you are just learning your edges, you’ll love the Ringer on your home runs, or water that isn’t over your skill level. This boat is amazing at keeping the bow up on shallow drops and not petoning. However, the stern rocker is less than most creek boats so runs with a lot of “Stern tap” potential will find you stern tapping more than your creek boat.
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0:00 Intro
0:15 Outfitting
1:08 Specs
1:29 Deck
1:44 Hull
3:29 Fit
4:00 Stability
4:10 River Running
7:04 Flatwater
9:31 River Running
12:09 Surfing
13:12 Final Thoughts
20 июн 2024
