Hi there!

I'm thinking about a new boat. And I wonder which one you would suggest as a better creek-boat by experience?!
Besides waiting for the new Bliss Stick ones...then again a the question might come up

thx

Depends on what you are going to be spending most of your time creeking. If you are going to do a lot of big water with hole punching and focusing on keeping a line through large features go with the mac1. If you are going to be doing technical runs go with the Huka, better turning and boofing but wont hold lines or punch holes as well.

...and which one does better accelerate?! I actually go more for technical stuff, but some bigwater, too. But on technical waters you can have big holes/ large features to punch trough, too!
I just always wonder, why Schorschi stays with the Huka for everything!(?) Didn't he had that one in Peru, too...??? Some guessing: Either because of being paid for it?! Makes actually no sense to me! Or it's the best one for techincal hardcore stuff?
But aren't new boats of the same producer made to be better then the ones before? Like the my(i?)stic... I would guess, that he is supposed to be better then MAC and Huka in generell (acceleration, keeping the line, rollability, punching through holes, turning, boofing, the way of up-diving and diving in,....?!) Don't you wanna always go for the most safest in aspect of creeking? And isn't the safest that one which includes all these skills in "perfection"? Or is this not possible and you have to make compromises? Isn't it said that the Mistic is supposed to be perfect?

THX
Nils (6.1, 77kg)

Ps: I don't wanna do real playing in a creeker. That is no skill for me a creeker needs to have or needs to be good in it!

There are allways compromises in the aspect of turning vs holding a line and boofing vs punching holes. I think the Jefe nails these right on and is the best creeker this year hands down. It really all comes down to personal preference and paddling style, I prefer a technical creeker (CFS, Huka, Huck) over a big water creeker. (Gus, Diesel, Mac1) I wouldn't reccomend getting a Bliss-Stick without a warrenty, they seem to have some boats out that have really bad plastic in a few batches. Although I may upgrade soon I still paddle a CFS and will never get rid of it for steep technical runs. It's more or less what the Huka is based on.

Get a MAC, chances are you're not only going to paddle 1 type of river for ever, a mac will do the job nicely on steep technical stuff(if the paddler is up to it), but holding a ferry angle across a big boily monster of a river in a huka isn't easy. Versitility is the key. HUka's are also notorious for turning side ways in holes when you don't want them to.

MAC it all the way hukas turn tooo easy
never leave the MAC 4 a Huka and Look at there speed
They Beat the Huka Any Day