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The straps release with little effort and are really easy to find should you be pinned underwater and need to get out fast. The design makes sure that the plastic fork piece can slide since the metal loops are taking almost all of the stress load. I htought I had downloaded photos of the straps, but...

SOLD!! Going to West Virginia!! Via Forward Air freight lines.

Yeah, this Pelite stuff will last forever while you might have to replace the neoprene cover every few years.

DM&FS

Years ago when I was outfitting a lot of canoes as a side business, I would cruise the local orthotic and prosthetic lab for scraps of a really dense closed cell foam called Pelite. This was before the foam was sold on the internet. It comes in a variety of thicknesses and densities(they do the duro...

Potential Buyer of the Cascade listed in the Classified section wondering how to get this boat from NE Iowa to Maine. Waiting to hear back from him as to potential drop off spots further down the coast line maybe. Thinking he'll be glad to throw $75-100 at a willing courrier.... I'll check the site ...

Red/white blotch design, 94 Model, Headwaters skirt med. Headwaters air bags and cockpit cover, set up for Brown Pack System Straps, but the Browns aren't included in the sale(going in my Outrage X). My knees won't let me scrunch down in the Cascade anymore. ebay auction listed if you need pictures....

I've got a virtually brand new Cascade, skirt, air bags, cockpit cover and some 2" webbing for you to make your own straps. The boat is on ebay right now for a BIN of $400. Reserve is $325. Boat is in NE Iowa, 94 model with practically no river miles on it. Red/white blotch design. Ebay auction # 37...

Send me all your old Impulses, Genesises and H2Pros. Iowa hasn't even discovered THEM yet and they are perfect for the Class 1 water the state offers. Recycle baby!!!, we're only 20 years behind the curve!! Then they can support the manufacturers' new creations.

DM&FS

Mad River solo canoes are pretty easy to trim. The center of the boat is always right where the E is in the Mad RivEr Canoe Logo on the sides. Clarification; the E in River , not Canoe. I put my hip bones behind that line a couple inches(take a 3' long straight piece of 1x2 pine and press it up to y...

I've been looking all over for them, both the 3/4" ones and the 1 1/2" ones. Mad River used to sell me them in bulk at like 50 at a time, but that outfit has changed since the Henry's ran the show.

Any links or help would be a big help

thanks

DM&FS

I have several ocmpanies bookmarked that sell this hardware. My problem will be finding a pack cloth/webbing wholesaler that has all the right stiffness values forthe webbing etc.

DM&FS

At long last, here's a decent photo of the BPS straps without their logos. Hope this helps.

DM&FS
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I don't want to speak for the conversion kayak/C-1 crowd, but my Outrage X and its predrecessor the Outrage, both had trapezoidal shaped minicell blocks to keep the knees in the curved part of the hull. The block was custom cut to whatever leg angle the customer wanted and usually 6" high. I'd bore ...

I'll have to dig deep for that photo, or I could do a re-creation of the original, but that would take every kayak in Blackhawk county!!

DM&FS

Gentlemen!! I vote for going retro on the vehicle..... As in VW Van retro. My canoe and kayak vehicles for nearly the past 30 years have been buses. Either the old 71 4 banger, the 79 orange two tone with the type 4 motor in it, or my current ride , a 90 Vanagon GL. If zero to 60 in an afternoon is ...