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This is one of the best resorses ans sorces of winter entertainment already. This is not a criticisum but a sugestion. You could have a bigger galery and perhaps eaven some videos. I do not know how hard it is but you could have people send in photo and you might have a photo of the week. I love canoe porn!!!

Just an Idea

Scott

Well I'm not Adam, and I don't even play him on TV, but I'm sure he would agree that any additions / thoughts to make the site better are welcome!
I think the only problem is that up to now this site has been his labor of love - funded by him personally. Hopefully we can pass the helmet at the upcoming Armada and Single Blade Sym. (I'll like to see more about that - hint on adding a stick post) and raise some cash to support the site.
In the mean time, how about adding a sticky post with links to images on personal sites? Cheaper for Adam (images take storage) and we'll get to see bros of the single blade strutting their stuff!
I like the idea of images even if my canoe porn will be very, very lame!

My signature has my screen name & a link to my yahoo photos page with pics of me & some of my paddling buddies.

To do this on your signature, just click "profile" up near the top of the page & it will give you your options. Then ad the address in the "signature" box. It will automaticaly ad the link to all of your posts.

First off, THANK YOU for your ideas! i consider CBoats.net a community effort-I'm simply the scribe and information colator .

I'm happy to add new images-I just need folks to send them in! Right now it's still true C-Boats, but Kenneth and I are getting very close to FINALLY having a convertable-boats database up and running (we're still testing it...so it is built!). Needless to say I'm sure we'll be able to add a lot more images this way

Guestee is also correct...CBoats costs a couple hundred a year just in hosting $, which I primarily fund (I say primarily because occasionally I receive random checks in the mail from folks on this board...not enough to cover the whole thing, but it helps and I really appreciate it!!). Videos would be a GREAT addition, but that takes bandwidth to stream them out, and more bandwidth is more $$.

I've been contemplating contacting a few, very specific boating folks (NRS for example) to gauge their interest in having an ad up (NOT a pop-up-that's what drove us here...), but I'm not sure what I'd charge, etc.... Any folks with experience in the on-line ad realm please contact me ( info@cboats.net ) .

For the curious we're closing in on having 1000 "unique visitors" a day, 400,000 hits a month (we actually surpassed this in Jan, but backed off a bit in Feb (short month perhaps?). I'm sure some of those are bots, but have done what we can to keep the data true and bots out of most of the site (if they're behaving).

In case you're curious I probably spend 3-4 hours a week (on average-usually it's longer stints every few weeks) on updates. On top of that I'm on this board several times a day checking for inappropriate posts (SBroam's been a BIG help on this lately-thanks again Scott! (and Brettal used to help out too)). The "long term" projects (structural changes, etc...) simply get worked on when I get around to it, for better or worse. Like guestee said, it's been a labor of love up to this point.

There are actually quite a few new photo's up lately too, and I apologize for being remiss in posting an official update-Gary DeBacher has sent in some GREAT information and images on the Wide Ride, Magnet, Seewun, and Zealot (and more...but that's something special he's researching for us ).

There will also be images of Jim Snyder's CBoat paddles posted soon, and Nam's D-rings (I meant to do it this morning before being distracted by this post ).

Thank you again for the ideas...the "Boat image of the week" is easily implemented, but it takes time. Initially I may do a "Boat of the Week" and link to what's already available, but if folks start sending in "Unique" images, or linking to them from a post (I'll turn it into a "Sticky" for you for 1 week) we can go that route.