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The Tiderace Xcite offers excellent tracking, edging and superior surfing characteristics with a fair amount of gear storage for a boat of its size. I love the hull design, I was however pretty disappointed in the interior finish product as it looks like a small child's fingerprinting project gone wrong for sealing joints and bulkheads. This was of little concern originally as the boat was sealed and all the mess was on the inside of the boat. But in less than a year of paddling three of the four hatch combing on the boat have fallen off and the forth has come loose. It is quite obvious upon inspection no prep work or etching was done prior to the attempt to attach the combing to the boat. It is quite expensive and a extensive process to fix something that was produced incorrectly in the first place. Very disappointing for a kayak that costs as much as it does.