Comments on: X-Boat – P&H Cetus MV

By: Darrin Hochmuth

Darrin Hochmuth — Mon, 31 May 2010 01:51:04 +0000

great post my friend, very nice. congrats!

By: Rob Glaze

Rob Glaze — Sat, 15 May 2010 19:55:21 +0000

For all those interested, today I have paddled the Cetus MV whilst on a demo weekend with Pete Baars at Sea to Summit on Anglesey, this is the very first production mv, my experience with sea kayaking is short amounting to maybe 10 day trips in fairly calm conditions in a Valley Aquanaut (plastic), I am 5’8″ and approx 164 lbs, various kayaks were tried today including Quest/Quest lv/ Cetus/Cetus lv and Capella 167, the Cetus mv was confidence inspiring in flat conditions, the fit was excellent for an off the shelf kayak (although some further fitting requirements would be needed for personal preference). This boat appears to tick all the right boxes for me with really good initial and secondary stability. By comparison the Quest lv very sharply goes from secondary stability to over.
Various size paddlers including smaller ladies and larger gents also felt at home in the Cetus mv.

By: Brian Day

Brian Day — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:54:03 +0000

Hi Derrick,

Thanks for getting the pics up. I want to re-iterate what you said about this kayak. It is strictly an X-Boat. Developmental and experimental. It isn’t a Cetus MV, or really even a stepping stone to that boat. We’ll be getting it into the hands of our US test pilots to get feedback on some design ideas that are being played with. There is only this one in the US. And, I think, one in Europe.

On the question of length for the actual MV, we are shooting for about 17’8″–just a touch longer than the current LV. Don’t know if you have had a chance to paddle the current Cetus, Bryan, but I think it paddles a lot “shorter” than it’s 17’10 inches.

Happy paddling,

Brian

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:44:29 +0000

Looks like a nice boat. Is the length still near 18′ or did they reduce it? Personally, I’d like to see more boats at 17′. That seems to be my sweet spot.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:32:02 +0000

Kudos to the companies who make these lovely, lovely boats for coming out with boats that can comfortably be paddled empty (or nearly so) by lighter-weight paddlers without risking being blown all over the water. Such a luxury to paddle a boat that actually fits, just like the big guys!! And I’m surprised how nice orange and red look together…