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The New River has water in the fall (the Big South Fork is a maybe for water that time of year) and plenty of class II and III rapids. I recommend finishing the canoe trip with a rafting day in the gorge: The stretch between Hinton (Bellepoint) and Cunard has only one major obstacle, Sandstone Falls...

Seems like a good way to introduce myself to the group, listing my boat progression- beats the way dogs do it! My name's Tony, paddled from 1980-1995, had kids and got back into it this past year. paddled grummans, alumacrafts, old town trippers with the scouts in Maine (Roy Hunter infected my with ...

As far swampin' out tandem on the Little Miami, Great Miami, Mad, Caesars Creek, Licking, and Whitewater R. teach your son to backpaddle harder and dump the boat out when necessary. You could also have some good adventures on 4 mile creek, seven mile creek if you got the water. Get really good tande...

I've tried to roll the taureau in pool with little success as well, it seems like I get the boat 3/4 of the way up and it just hangs. I've been practicing my roll in the gyramax as a way of building up my technique. I feel like I'm riding on top of a twitchy cork in the Taureau- unused to a the new ...

have a red slasher, lots of minor scratches on the hull, no oil canning, or major hull issues- have original seat and walls although the bow wall in front of the seat was cut away for video box storage- have extra closed cell foam I'll throw in to extend bow wall to original length. Boat has no thig...

I'm getting back into boating after a 12 year lapse, bernie hooked me up with a used cascade but I need a skirt that will fit it, the snapdragon skirt I have is to small, a few holes is ok- located in WV TonyD- burned out video boater