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... glass boat; maybe they've never heard of a Phoenix Slipper nor know a Hahn from a jelly filled doughnut. I know all of these kinds of folks right ... glide of my glass boat, or the technical challenge of keeping my open boat dry in big water, but it's a challenge all the same. It's a challenge ...

... this is the best paddling site I've seen. Have a Yugo II, modified Hahn and Max II in my past, now an open boater, BUT I had a 3 level spinal fusion last may L4 to S1 and the Doc and PT types tell ...

... thought that if more women would try lighweight, glass canoes, be that open or decked , we'd see more women C-boaters on the river. Not wanting ... a shortened version of an old ('70's) medium volume race boat such as a Hahn. Probably 11-12 feet long with a hull not unlike the Cascade. I haven't ...

... a decked boat that you sat in and paddled with a double blade, and an open boat that you knelt in and paddled with a single blade. The minute you ... John Berry's (Legend!) early designs as well as the relative latecoming Hahn's. We also had the first race boat Davey and Jon designed together. ...

... deck, like a little trap door closed with duct tape, so I could just open it up for repair jobs. Never had to make a plug for a repair, but I've ... my van at the West & bounce around...and my first C-1, an old McKnight Hahn (blush..I didn't own it for long) slipped off Paul Flack's father's ...

... to be able to keep up with my K-boater friends in touring sea Kayaks, open water. Does anyone have any technical info on what it takes to choose ... I thought that they would be on the forefront of this. hades, a Hahn may be a good place to start. After a Glacier Bay expedition I agree ...

... To actually respond to Huge's message a bit, I started out in a glass open boat, went to plastic (cascade, slasher, atom), and am now back to glass ... Posted on Dec 9, 1999, 8:47 PM Ditto on Big Air by DaveM I'll bring my Hahn!! We can almost get air born at Rocky Island here on the Potomac, it's ...

Outfitting Question by Charlie I'm an open boater, using a loaner C1 at my local club to learn c1. My roll is getting fairly ... river. It's an old glass boat, someone molded at home in the late 70s. Maybe a Hahn mold? I'm not sure. 2 problems: the minicell on the bottom is all ripped up ...

... light weight? [I don't ask for much!]) I'm a fairly experienced solo open boat and C-1 paddler (18 years?); not a hot boater, but have lots of ... check out the boats from Millbrook Boats. John K. makes a nice modified Hahn, as well as Bob Putnam's glass spinoff of the Cascade, the "Hornet." ...

... help to many I'm sure. I remember the first time I got into a Sweet/ Hahn C-1. Being of larger frame ( 6'2 230lbs) I barely fir into the cockpit opening. I couldn't believe that boat. I was no where near ready to paddle it, but I was really ...

... no place to put it! I think Ed Gertler may carry one, but he paddles a Hahn, which has a deck similar to the U.S.S. Nimitz. (Nothing against the Hahn--it's a great boat.) Actually, we rely on open boaters for spare paddles! <grin> I was running the Upper Tye River in Virginia ...