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Open ocean with a half skirt?
This may work in protected harbor in the summer but, often you can get pretty confused seas leaving a harbor, in a few weeks heavier northwest swells, and storms will start. Getting a real skirt would be important, if you are paddling a rec boat with a huge cockpit, get a different boat if you want to paddle open coastline.