Hey Prouboy,
Sorry about not answering your question addressed to me. I'm not tech savvy and can't figure out how to capture someones quote and respond. Besides I feel like I post quite a bit already. Anyway, its buggin me and I thought an apology was in order. To answer your question the first time I had it out, literally, I had a completely unbalanced load with a seat that was hiked to the rails and I hadn't gone 10 feet on the beginning of a 13 day trip and I thought sure I was going in. I had intended to go for a test run but my business in the summer goes pretty much full blast and I just ran out of time. Cliff Jacobs review of the boat, as well as several others were enough for me to purchase the boat without trying it out. Besides, with my inexperience at that time I wouldn't know a good boat from a bad boat. So, seeing that I actually had a few weeks to kill for once I rationalized my way into doing a couple week trip my first time out in it. Crazy huh? Anyway, after I lowered the seat with seat drops the dealer had thoughtfully given me and gave a bit of a critical eye to the load the boat performed far beyond my expectations and I had an absolute wonderful trip.