About the reviewer I'm 13, not really athletic, but I can kayak for ever and I'm not the strongest but I didn't really need to be with this kayak. Test environment I tested this kayak on a flat day - no wind, no current, no anything, and I also tested it on a day that a tropical storm was coming in, so heavy wind, big waves, huge currents. Review On the day with no wind it ran so smoothly I went with my dad and his friend. My dad was on a sit on top and his friend in my old old town otter sport. I was just cruising in this thing and it was goin fast and with the skeg it couldn't go any better. when little waves came in they were no problems. This kayak was a little bit hard to turn but it was no big problem. I was kayaking for about 3 hours and I still felt fine - the seat was very comfortable. The only problem was with a short life jaket my shirt got caught...