This is my first true season of paddling & racing. Long story short: I have spent the past 2 and a half months training in a V10 Gen 2 (closing in on 60 hours of bucket time). What about your dealer? Any other good stories to share? In this age of Amazon online shopping and cheep knock-off products with no service or support, I would like to publicly thank Arjan Bloem for standing behind their products and providing a great service overall. That saved me the hassle of driving back-and-forth another time (about 6 hours) and put me in a new boat instead of a repaired one. Instead, they offered me another 550 from their stock, which I could take home there-and-then. Now, they could have kept the boat for repairs and have me pick it up a few weeks later. Since it was a production issue and the boat was only 6 months old, it was covered by the warranty. Unable to find the leak myself, I took the boat to the dealer (Arjan Bloem in the Netherlands) for inspection: he found that what I had mistaken for a flaw in the gelcoat near the nose, under the waterline, was actually a soft spot leaking water into the hull.

Since the hull was, as far as a good see, undamaged, I started to suspect a leaking rudder of bailer. The last few weeks, however, about a glass of water came out after every outing on flat water without any capsize of waves over the bow.

In the following weeks, I practiced remounts extensively during my flat water outings, and water kept coming out whenever I upturned the boat. Since a few months, water kept coming out of the purging hole of my Nelo550 whenever I would turn it upside down.Īt first, I thought it was the result of a few capsizes and remounts during an open water outing where I misjudged my stability in short, steep, wind chop.

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