I'm about 220# my wife is 140# and I put my 55# dog on a carpet covered piece of plywood on the back deck of the Oasis. My seat is still high and dry, although the waves do come up over the holes where rudder lines exit the hull and it leaks a little. I don't think you'd have any real problem with the seat being wet but you might take on some water through the rudder cable holes. It doesn't amount to much. Maybe a quart every 4 or 5 hours in the water.
The boat is plenty stable and a lot faster than an Outfitter. My dog can stand up and walk around on the back deck. You can heel it over to the gunnels under sail. When paddling solo, I put a 55 pound lead ballast tube in the front hatch and the dog rides in the front cockpit on a dry bag filled with styrofoam peanut packing material. I've got two other flat water kayaks. The Oasis is by far my favorite boat for it's comfort, speed, versatility, and durability. With two pedalers, I have no problem keeping up with the hardshell crowd. We can cruise at 5 mph even with the dog on board. We did put the Turbo ST fins and sailing rudder on it. They should be standard equipment on this boat. Particularly the sailing rudder. The rudder authority was inadequate in my opinion without the sailing rudder. I tried the boat on a river with the standard rudder and it was nearly uncontrollable in current. On flat water I needed constant rudder adjustments to maintain a course. The sailing rudder fixed all that.
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