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I had outiftted it myself, but just temporarily. Depends on your roll and comfortable level with outfitting. For playboating, I'd highly recommend at least a small bulkhead to hold your knees in place. Then good thigh straps or a lap belt (search for forum on lapbelts, these need to be put together ...

the ace series had continuous rocker, they were not seen as a good kayak playboat, I wouldn't bother using one as C1 as there are many trusted and popular kayak conversions.

I tried a booster a few years back as a C1. was quite fun. given the small cockpit (and I vaguely recall a somewhat low cockpit too, might be wrong on that), if you have big or long legs, the fit might be tight. of course it would be easier to start kayaking, that is why they sell the thing with a k...

I try to keep it to one boat in each category. pretty happy with the fleet at the moment. tandem tripping canoe: starburst (w/ skirt) tandem play OC2: old sunburst II (w/ solo seat as well) OC 1: rival C1 playboat: LL space cadet C1 creekboat: WS Y Just retired my previous ancient tripping OC2, and ...

sounds encouraging. It just went above freezing, but I don't know if I'll have time to check on it and try to flip it over. Otherwise spring is a long way away.

the boat is completely full of ice, sitting upright on the ground.

anyone ever had an abs boat sit upright full of water, and then freeze solid? Lent an old tripping boat to some friends for their cottage. Plastic gunwals thank goodness, but wondering if the hull and trim are likely have survived.

I have one for sale, an army surplus drysuit, never used but the ankle gaskets need some attention. I`m in ottawa, parsons99 at hotmail.com

tried a short ride in a new OC1 this past weekend. Designed by composite creations, a guy by the name of Andrew Phillips based out of London Ontario. Just surfed it a bit, nice primary stability and a flat planning hull. Looks and feels much like an ocoee that has been shortened and updated by some ...

the dowel system works fine for several years. once the dowels start to rot out, replace them with another $3 piece of dowel. The last few times I have thrown a quick coat of varathane on them.

regarding the footbraces, I have done this with dowels through the foam blocks, screws into the dowels. Predrill as the dowels might try to spin on you. the dowels themselves, or a similar size piece of pipe will make fast clean holes through that mini cell. watch you don`t mount them too low, I did...

looking for a used evergreen/ bluehole starburst or esquif canyon. anyone?

attaching a wooden T grip to an aluminum paddle shaft. Any tips? I have a polyurethane waterproof glue I might try. First time I drilled a hole and used a screw to keep it in place, but the threads in the paddle shaft stripped soon afterwards.

I think you guys are nuts with this cross boof business, but I wanna try it. Completely agree on the werner bandit, broke two. I think it was hitting my boat learning to cartwheel, very weak paddle. Now I use it for canoe tripping (despite a large crack in it), with a trusty raft paddle/ club as a s...

might want to give esquif another try. The little I paddled the detonator and nitro, I didn't like them either. But I am thinking of the vertiage and the vertiage X. They look pretty stable, likely paddle solo "like a real canoe" (traditional canoe feel of stability and tracking) rather than like th...

I haven`t done this myself, but consider how much rocker there is going to be when the two halves are joined. heard of a boat or two where this wasn`t dealt with well, and the boats didn`t surf well at all.