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... (I happen to own one...) and they're great; but to give you an idea of what it takes to convert a squirt kayak to a squirt canoe This Boat (The Meltdown as made by Valley Canoe Products/Downtime Kayaks) http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2681/4540709504_808190e25c.jpg Was made by adding 4inches ...

Just spoke to the big dog/valley people (as they're resposible for the Meltdown originally) and mine is made of CSM and Diolen layed up with Polyester resin... Makes it cheap and easy to fix... but also weaker In the first place* I just need to convince my ...

... If you're falling backwards, raise your torso. If you're falling on your face, put your face in the water. Maybe you should just ship that Meltdown to North Carolina... 8)

I've been mucking about in the meltdown again, but I can't seem to get into a stable bow or stern stall... Any advice? I will eventually get some video of the meltdown in action, but it's been far too cold for squirtboating for a long time... ...

Oh and I got chest deep on a meltdown today.

... it is very difficult to find the others used due to low production (1 Ceemweaver, 2 Mentors, 4 Mavens, and I think 11 Oxygens). There is also the Meltdown from the UK. If the exchange rates get better I may have to order one of those myself while the mold is still kicking around (for the "museum" ...

I had a custom IR skirt which recently died... So I'm using a normal playboater skirt I've borrowed whilst waiting for Pheonix Neoprene to finish making me a custom skirt (and one for my meltdown).

... gets welded after almost every trip . Savage Prelude - Needs reoutfitting, the last two owners where about 8" shorter than me. Need to add the Meltdown and Gus to this list.

A long long time ago, I promised to upload some pictures of my meltdown, after many many excuses to myself I've finally got round to it. [though I'm afraid you'll have to put up with my garden as a backdrop, cos it's kind of a state, but it serves my menagiere ...

... makes a huge difference in my mind so that would be the first order of business on my list! My $.01. PS: Any action on the Cquirt video of that meltdown? ;-)

Generally, I've worked on sitting in the boat with my arm out at 90degrees, If I put the t-grip on the floor, my hand should hold just bellow to the blade

I use a 58 in the prelude, 48 in the Meltdown and a 54 in everything else

... 9", but could do with some more height, I can't use the footpegs without putting my butt on my heels and causing horrendous foot pain. and the Meltdown, it's sitting at about 4" I might take that down to 4" at the front and 3.5" at the rear; but either way it needs a bigger back block and straps ...

... (ducky) Sawyer Champ? (18' open boat) Wenonah Advantage 16' Wood stripper OC1 (old marathon boat) I'm hoping to trade one of the Mentors for a Meltdown (we've been trying to make that happen for a little while now), and am looking to complete the list of boats designed as rec. C1's (Amoeba, ...

Three at home:

Meltdown, hanging above the stairs
Crazy 88, stood up against the wall outside my bedroom window
Jefe, lying upside down under the crazy

Then my cu fly and prelude are stored in the university sheds, because they're too big to fit through my kitchen door and out into the back yard.

... it, the fink is not great for smaller guys for example. what boats do you paddle krikkit? Crazy 88 convertion, Jefe convertion, Prelude, CU fly & Meltdown (C-Squirt); occasionally some ancient (well just after 3.7m boats came in) Slalom C1. As Kelvin pointed out over the weekend, differences in ...