Rec/Trainer Boat Reviews?

[fishbust]

I thought for sure there would be a thread for posting honest boat reviews.

Anyone have experience with these boats I am considering or know of honest articles on them?..........

Wintech Explorer 24
Peinert Dolphin 24
Durham ruus-1 24
Pro Am Elite 25

I have rowed a Dolphin. I am sure they get a lot of praise but I am not crazy about the rigger or the flimzy way it is u-bolted in, guranteed to crack and the one at the rowing club already has a split foot strecther. I think they are overpriced. My honest opinion.

Others are hard to tell going just by a couple internet pictures. A lot of money to spend for a boat that you may or may not like. Not feasible to try them all out, some are thousands of miles away.

Anyway, thanks for any input.

[Bob S.]

I thought for sure there would be a thread for posting honest boat reviews.
Anyway, thanks for any input.

I hope that you get some good responses to this, but I think that this is not the best forum for such a question, since it based on the C2 indoor rower with only an occasional message about OTW rowing. Surely there must be a website that is devoted to OTW rowing that would be more likely to get you the results you are seeking.

Bob S.

[fishbust]

I do agree Bob, I didn't know where to put the question.

I think row2k should have a forum.

I need to buy a new (or used) boat for the upcoming rowing season. Don't want to just draw straws on which one to buy. Looking down the road when I want to move up into a different boat, don't want to find myself stuck trying to sell a boat that is undesirable to most people.

Most other links and sites are just small local rowing clubs.

Will keep looking. Thanks.