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Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2010 8:34 pm**

Are the open versions ready as well?

Posted: **Fri Jul 16, 2010 12:50 pm**

I see Vince from Esquif posted a pic of a smiling Smerda in a nice new boat on Facebook

Looks nice from what you can see of it!
Now for an updated review Craig!

Posted: **Fri Jul 16, 2010 1:10 pm**

Yesterday was our first day in whitewater with te boat:

Craig, Dave Proulx who did the CAD drawing, Jeff Thuot and I took 3 L'Edges and a Spanish Fly (Craig had to give is ex-girlfriend one last ride, right?), followed by M. Chassé himself and Ambroise Savard from Canot Légaré in a raft to shoot pictures and videos on a nice class 3 (4) section of our local Jacques-Cartier river.

First unofficial impression: WOW! You might expect me to come up with only positive comment as I work for Esquif, but honestlly, WOW!

I cannot post pictures here yet as they are not publicly available online, but have a look at the Esquif page or my own on Facebook, I will put a few more teasers before the end of the week-end.

Then, in a few days, when our shoulders will ask for a break, we'll get busy writing a full report and posting tons of pictures of our new baby!

30+ are on the assembly line right now, and more are being molded daily.

That's all folks for now, stay tuned!

Vincent
Esquif Canoes

Posted: **Fri Jul 16, 2010 5:48 pm**

This will be my final post on this thread because the Lèdge is ready. I will start a new thread soon showing the production boat in the water complete with my impressions and all of the final specs.

We had three of them out yesterday for their initial trial... and they absolutely passed with flying colors and a LOT of smiles.

Until then here is a link to a small gallery with some pictures from the Esquif World Headquarters.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=6 ... 175affb4f5

Enjoy...

P.S. I`m stoked... gotta run... going to go get wet

Posted: **Fri Jul 16, 2010 5:59 pm**

Awesome Craig!

Great to see the boat coming off the "production" line.

Congrats!

Posted: **Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:26 pm**

i gotta say that looks sweet.

Posted: **Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:41 pm**

Looks good! I am ready to see some more action shots! Especailly of the "Open" L'edge.

Posted: **Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:51 pm**

nice work! I think it's going to be a winner.

Posted: **Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:58 pm**

Stoked!

Posted: **Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:59 pm**

I never looked back since I switched from OC to C a year and a half ago...til today...Looks awesome

Posted: **Fri Jul 16, 2010 7:24 pm**

Very nice!!

I only sorta wanted one before... now I can't wait!

Thanks for posting those pic comparing to the prelude. The l'edge looks like it will be a better boat for us larger framed folks (wider and deeper than the lude).

Posted: **Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:53 pm**

Looks great!

Posted: **Sat Jul 17, 2010 12:52 am**

Congrats Craig and everyone at Esquif

Posted: **Sat Jul 17, 2010 4:00 am**

Congrats for sure!

And please get a demo to Western Canada, in fact to Nikki & Western Canoeing!

Pat.

Posted: **Sat Jul 17, 2010 4:23 am**

Craig Smerda wrote:This will be my final post on this thread ...

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Esquif L'edge Pre-Production Images

L'Edge

OMG get them down SOuth fast