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... with a wry sense of humor, John hung his UPenn Wharton diploma over the toilet in his Riparius shop, named his boats with sexual innuendos (Flasher, M aximum E xposure, Flashback, AC/DC), and gave the only ironclad boat warranty in the business: "Ten yards or ten seconds, whichever comes ...

... In 1975 Millbrook Boats moved from Waitsfield to the Hudson River in Riparius, NY. Here Berry designed his legendary open canoes: the ME, the Flasher, the Flashback, and the AC/DC. He was active in open canoe slalom and wildwater racing and his designs revolutionized the sport. Anyone who ...

ME stands for "Maximum Exposer". It goes along with "Flasher" and "Flashback".

... are very, very nice boats - I'm defining "production" Berry Boats and design prototypes). There is an interesting history to a lot of the names... Flasher Flashback ME ME Too etc....

... more responsive open canoes and to center his clinic around teaching how to paddle these boats. His first design effort was an OC-1 he named the "Flasher". It had a hull design taken off of a Hahn, a still-popular high volume C-1. It was his "wishful fantasy" to have a logo on the bow of this ...