The differences stood out straight away for me, but I see loads of these boats at all our races so I guess I am quite familiar with their lines. here is the current PRS, compare it to the pics on my original post.
The new Fury is 4cm narrower and the nose to me looks more refined.
If I was a betting man I'd wager that they may have tinkered with the shape of the hull. The PRS has quite a rounded almost flat bottom which gives it a fair amount of stability.
Word in paddling circles was that some sponsored paddlers had their PRS boat "Squished" while the plastic was still warm coming out of the mold so that the hull was narrower and had produced more of a V shape.
Any boat that has a scupper and goes down rapids will risk having it torn off.
The Finn Molokai uses the anderson bailer that can be retracted but if you are unlucky you can catch the leading edge of the bailer even when closed and rip it off, it's just one of the risks taken with rapids paddling.
Some paddlers seal them and revert to a pump for white water marathon races.
Yes they do weigh a lot
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But then again they are pretty bulletproof
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, hence the reason they are so popular as an all round ski. I have owned both the PRS and now the Molokai and they were both around 20kg. But as for an XT being a rocket ship in comparison, I think that's an exaggeration. I've seen a PRS paddled at over 12km/hr over a 20km race and I've paddled my 20kg Molokai at 12.1km/hr over 12km so while they are heavy they do get along.
The nose does look like it would be easily bent if placed between two rocks and sideways force applied, but what ski wouldn't? At least a plastic ski will most likely spring back into reasonable shape and be able to keep going