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Review Detail

 
Nitro 58
Boats & Boards
(Updated: February 27, 2006)
Overall rating 
 
4.3
Design 
 
4.0
Perfomance 
 
5.0
Quality 
 
4.0
Value / Money 
 
4.0

Great downriver playboat

I picked this up after a year of getting lazy in a Superfun. The more aggresive paddling style required spanked me back into shape at first. Now that I'm more on top of it I really enjoy the boat.

It has good ferry speed and carves up a wave like mad. I see it as sort of a cross between a booster and an air. I paddled a booster 60 for a couple of years ago and the nitro looses a little stabilty, but makes up for it with much greater response to body input.

I have to keep up my guard more than with some other boats, but pays off with big fun factor as a result.

I'm no full on playboater, but I can feel a roundhouse coming, which will lead to blunts. A friend that is much more skilled than I pumped it into a bow stall on faltwater with ease.

I did have to remove the thigh hooks and footbrace to get comfortable in the boat and still don't like Riot's small cockpit.

Jackson incorporates integrated thighbraces like riot, but has a much safer exit. To blend the Jackson cockpit to a Riot hull would be supreme.

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Location: KY
Age: 32
Weight: 90.7 kgs
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