Libby demonstrates the admirable stability of the Wavesport Fuse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nShe does find it pretty easy to maintain the correct moderately aggressive kayaking posture in the Fuse.<\/p>\nOoo, big hole on river right!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAnd size-wize, another great thing about the Fuse as compared to a 40 lb river runner like my first boat, the Necky Jive, is that it’s easy to carry and there’s plenty of room to stick it in the car.<\/p>\nMust... stand... on.... everything....<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nOverall, I really like the Wavesport Fuse 48.\u00a0 When I was flipping all over the place in the 2Fun (again, after I messed up the outfitting) I had a lot of people tell me I\u00a0should stick with the 2Fun because it was the more challenging boat and would make me grow faster.\u00a0 I tend to think along those lines anyway, but then I thought, what if just for once I chose to not<\/em> do something the hardest way possible?<\/p>\nFor me, the key was that when I switched back to the Fuse I ended up having more fun, and gained confidence and skill because I tried more things.\u00a0 I never would have tried Boulder Drop for the very first time at 2400 cfs in the 2Fun, but I felt OK giving it a shot in the Fuse, and it also made me a better roller, since after swimming twice in Boulder Drop I learned to REALLY keep my head down at the end of a roll.<\/p>\n
(Plus, the last 3 times I’ve done Boulder Drop have been in the Jackson Star, which is more squirrelly than the 2Fun – which goes to show that starting out in a slightly easier boat doesn’t necessarily hold you back.)\u00a0 I love<\/em> the Star, by the way, just haven’t written a review on it yet.<\/p>\nSo ultimately, I’d say the Wavesport Fuse 48 and the Jackson 2Fun are both great boats – pretty comparable and good potentials for beginner boats, but the Fuse\u00a0is probably an easier boat for some people starting out and leaves plenty of room to have fun and grow – I don’t see it as just a beginner boat at all, simply one that works well for beginner kayakers as well as intermediates.\u00a0 And it really does open up the door for kayakers with more experience to use it in more difficult whitewater, like Class IVs.\u00a0 Overall,\u00a0a great boat – I give it two thumbs up.<\/p>\nLibby yawns a lot in the Fuse. Not sure what that means.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wavesport Fuse 48 is a river runner\/playboat cross, often compared to the Jackson 2Fun but generally seen as a little more forgiving and a bit less aggressive. I demo’d the Fuse for about 6 weeks recently and it really grew on me.\u00a0 I’m giving it two thumbs up as a beginner to intermediate whitewater […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,360,7,44,112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}