The Wisper is a lovely boat and a fine swimmer, too, as I discovered after paddling one in the company of Ken Fink, FC dealer emeritus. My reasons for deciding against the Wisper in favor of the Kurrent 2.0 came down to weight and assembly. The Wisper weighs 38 pounds, the Kurrent weighs 31. It took Ken, a very experienced Feathercraft paddler over 45 minutes under a hot Florida sun to assemble the Wisper. To be fair, it was a new, never-before-put-together boat and the skin, having never been stretched, was very tight. Still, save the late, lamented Aironaut, there is not a Feathercraft boat that I would call "easy to assemble". Another vote for the Kurrent was the cockpit size. My first folder, a K-Light, had the standard cockpit which I found just a bit short. The slightly longer cockpit of the Kurrent, even with the forward rib that Jeremiah mentions, still allows a bit of room to stretch one's knees. Now, if it came down to having only one boat to use during the winter in Florida and in New Jersey the remainder of the year, I'd likely have chosen the Wisper as a "do everything boat". With the application of white-knuckle self-discipline, I've cut the fleet to just two boats. At least for today.
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