Pedal drive for Raptor SOT?

Rigging the rudder control today. some parts arrived last night.      That plus getting more G2's ready for pick up.

  May get to take this out for the maiden test pedal tomorrow.  All looking good so far.

Looking great, Jim! I want to come test one out, but it's a pretty good haul from Sacramento. When can I come down and be reasonably sure there will be boat(s) ready to try? (It's going to be my birthday gift from my VERY loving wife!)

Dan

 If you only knew how many pedal driven contraptions I'd put in the water at this same spot... 

   I've only tested a Hobie once,,, for a few hundred yards.  It takes a bit getting used too.     First thing I did was reach for the paddle.      Then I couldn't quite understand why it was so slow in turning upwind.   I thought I had the rudder all the way over...  Then about 50 yds out realized the rudder was up the whole time...  LOL.     What can I say... I was excited.   It worked !

     

Congratulations! Beautifully executed work! Looks like I may have found my first kayak.

Why not mount the tiller on a horizontal surface so you can have a left right control? Having a fore aft tiller control is not intuitive at all.

You're supposed to put the paddle away Jim!    Congrats bro!  Let's get some chrome on that thing!!! 

That looks just right! Nice job, Jim.

Why not mount the tiller on a horizontal surface so you can have a left right control? Having a fore aft tiller control is not intuitive at all.

   Where would that be?   Where it get's in the way climbing into it?   On the floor where you'd step on it?

    It's not all that confusing.  If the boat is turning right and you want it to go the other direction, pull back on the lever to adjust it to go left.
 Fwd= Right       Back= Left.
 
    I will say this.   If you're looking for steering control that will allow you to wind through an obstacle course, this is not the kayak for you.    The keels prevent it from swinging around. The rudder will allow you to control a course.    I'm going to play around with a larger size rudder fin to see how that changes things, but not expecting a big difference.       The larger the rudder, the more drag it creates.   It was pretty windy yesterday in the video, with a strong outgoing current both going the same direction.

    BTW  Anybody notice the otter playing 15' away? 

Why not mount the tiller on a horizontal surface so you can have a left right control? Having a fore aft tiller control is not intuitive at all.

One gets used to a different rudder control than Hobie's in a hurry. Having the control out of the way is more important than repeating Hobie's system.

This looks great!

Why not mount the tiller on a horizontal surface so you can have a left right control? Having a fore aft tiller control is not intuitive at all.

One gets used to a different rudder control than Hobie's in a hurry. Having the control out of the way is more important than repeating Hobie's system.

+1

If you put Hobie's knob on their rudder control, it becomes a challenge to self-rescue on that side of the boat---at least on my 2013 Adventure. It looks like that's not going to be an issue with the G2.

If you only knew how many pedal driven contraptions I'd put in the water at this same spot... 

   I've only tested a Hobie once,,, for a few hundred yards.  It takes a bit getting used too.     First thing I did was reach for the paddle.      Then I couldn't quite understand why it was so slow in turning upwind.   I thought I had the rudder all the way over...  Then about 50 yds out realized the rudder was up the whole time...  LOL.     What can I say... I was excited.   It worked !

     

Are these available for demo now? 

This is such an awesome development!! Wish I was closer and could demo at some point!

Are these available for demo now? 

           This one is... Still waiting on a shipment of parts

Rudder control seems like something simple to get use to.   

Hope to get some time to Demo one SOOONNN .  Never tried one . looks interesting .