About myself I've owned this boat for a couple of years now and it is the first boat I have owned. I paddle rivers grade 3+ and occassionally get to play with it. About the test environment Dart Loop, Treweryn, Usk, Lune, Crake Review This boat is kwerky! It took me a while to re-learn how to roll. This is because this boat has big, square sides. This get caught on all sorts of things if you are not watching and this boat will have you over in a sec. However, if you are watching, you can use those rails to get to all sorts of places you have to work really hard to get to in other boats. Because of the extra bouancy in the back, it tends not to get sucked down or back, but also is nigh on impossible to cartwheel or do any of that playboating stuff in (Although I've met a man who can). It really comes into it's own surfing where those rails mean it can slice and slice and slice. I've not managed to get air in it yet, but...