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Open Canoes (Cruising): Old Town Tripper Old Town Pathfinder (2) Open Canoes (Slalom): Rattler Reaktor Cobra* Spark (dual purpose)* C1 Cruising: Max II Perception C1 (factory kayak conversion circa 1982 - awful) Perception Dancer (my conversion - better) Gyramax Aerobat ...

... Racing two Edge protos against two Rainbow Boatworks Rattlers (Psyco and I had Rattlers, Frankie had raced one the year before and went home over the winter to create his first two designs). I'm in the ...

... the river. Well we went to check it out, and it really coiled if itself in the water with head raised, which keyed us into the fact it was a rattler. And in Northern California, lots and lots of poison oak. Carol

... the past 21 years and we're still married (last time I looked). We are the proud owners of a Dagger Caper, MR Howler, Millbrook Prowler, Rainbow Rattler (all OC2) and an old John Sweet C-2. Although we often paddle II/III, we have regularly done the Lower Yough, Cheat Canyon, New River, lower ...

... Gyramax Sweet Batmax Aerobat Sweet Superbat Sweet Extrabat (still one of my all-time favorite boats) Got bored. Added OC1 slalom (1988-ish) Rattler Andy Bridge Fanatic II After '92, when slalom became an Olympic sport, A/B courses got too hard for an old man... Still did C1 in C/D races. ...

OC Cruisin': Old Town Tripper Old Town Pathfinder (2) Long time gap... Esquif Spark OC Racing: Rattler Millbrook Reaktor Millbrook Cobra C1 Cruisin' Max II (Forgot the name, but it was a Perception kayak with factory C1 outfitting, circa 1976 - terrible boat) Perception ...

Bluehole 17A Loweline (aluminum cruiser) OCA Noah Jape C-1 Rainbow Boatworks Rattler Edge (member of Team Edge) SuperBatmax from Jesse Whittemore (Aramid Charger) Same SuperBat cut down with no wings Shred (squirt C-1 Crae Dalton and I did back in '87) Skeeter ...

... combinations. (Key point- skilled racers – not sure what you mean by combinations.) Bob P - I've raced with three differently radical designs: the Rattler (a Cudamax with sides), the Reaktor (Stability? We don't need no stinkin' stability!) and my current boat, the Cobra (narrow, railed and fast). ...

I've raced with three differently radical designs: the Rattler (a Cudamax with sides), the Reaktor (Stability? We don't need no stinkin' stability!) and my current boat, the Cobra (narrow, railed and fast). Frankly, the easiest boat to paddle was the ...

Bob,

Thank you for posting my picture. I don't know what I did wrong, but would you be willing to share how to do it right?

Happy paddling -- minus the rattler

Carol

Little Cutie... Some Photoshoping on it:

This picture was taken at the take-out at Eel Rock after our Eel River camp out. We don't know when it got in the canoe. <OBJECT><PARAM></PARAM><PARAM></PARAM><EMBED></EMBED></OBJECT> We had unpacked the canoes. After everything was out, my husband pulled the canoe into the river and rinsed the sand...

... told me a story about a guy in a kayak getting worked in a hole below a waterfall. While this was going on a guy at the top of the fall ran into a rattler. He was suprised by the snake and ended up flicking it with his paddle. No where else but right onto the deck of the guy getting worked. Double ...

... hull in like-new condition. Fully outfitted except for airbags (lashing in place). Cost over $1100.00 new. Asking $375.00. Rainbow Boatworks Rattler OC2 River running/whitewater canoe. 15 ft, rockered Kevlar hull in very good condition, new ash rails. Not outfitted. Cost over $1500.00 new. ...

BTW, who is "Psyco" just out of curiosity. Too bad folks don't use their real names in this forum. JRS Later on, Dave would be the first to run Gorilla (sans the Notch, I ) believe) in an open boat. Makes a run down Overflow (Wayne Gentry's Southern Fried Creeking) look like a Sunday walk in the pa...