This is how most of us started.

Atucky · Post by **Atucky** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 4:16 pm

Wouldn't you say these folks are having fun? Not my video, I just found it, and thought I'd share:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y_0f3bNgTU

jscottl67 · Post by **jscottl67** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 5:45 pm

Great video clip.

I know it came up in a post a couple of weeks back about grabbing the gunnels...watch closely and see how many of the spills have at least one person grabbing the gunnels.

bamaboater · Post by **bamaboater** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 6:53 pm

that is hilarious. laughin out loud. Pretty sweet wave trains. what river is that? looks like something western

Craig Smerda · Post by **Craig Smerda** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 8:10 pm

(Note to self).... design short new modern solo aluminum whitewater canoe.

ohioboater · Post by **ohioboater** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 8:28 pm

The description with the clip says Sacramento River. I wonder how many boats that camp loses each year...

bearboater · Post by **bearboater** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 12:55 am

I actually did start at a canoe camp, my first real whitewater was tandem with 3 inch freeboard, on the Allanwater, Ogoki, Brightsands, and Kopka Rivers of Southern Ontario. the next summer, I did Back River with the same camp. then this summer, I did the Kazan with my father. good times.
(Kazan and Back are both in Nunavut, Canada)
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however, we never yook Alumicrafts, we had Trippers or Discoveries by Old Town. On the latest Arctic venture, my father and I took a Folding canoe. that was quite a ride.

noobopenboater · Post by **noobopenboater** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 1:45 am

thats a great video, they could use some floatation for the sake of those old canoes. My first ww c boat experience was a tandem canoe school. I hope I didnt look that bad.lol.

Detonator Function · Post by **Detonator Function** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 2:41 am

i love the moments when they realize their boat is underwater...

that was definitely a great video...

msims · Post by **msims** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 12:09 pm

Some of those guys when they flip almost clamour up on their downed boat as it's flipping! "Uh oh, the boat's flipping... quick, get to the upward side... it's drier there... uh oh, it's going over! Quick, grab the gunnel and pull yourself up, it's drier up ther.....glub glub"

This wasnt how I started out. My first solo run was in a cedar strip canoe that my brother made, we were running a C1 'chute' that was about 13' wide. I was used to bow strokes, because my brother was the stern paddler.. My setup was good, then I had to do a little correction stroke, and I lapsed into bow paddling, which caused me to crash on one side of the bank. Then the boat swung around and because it was 16 feet, hit the other bank. Windowshade. Oh, and these things are heavy full of water... I managed to drag it to shore, but not before there was a hole in the hull.

Needless to say brother was pissed.
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orky · Post by **orky** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 6:43 pm

man does boats are old if you look carefully at the head cam footage you'll see a huge dent on theft of the bow

TomAnon · Post by **TomAnon** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 6:57 pm

I can remember flipping those old Aluminum canoes on purpose. Crawling up inside of the airpocket and screaming, bloodily!! as we went down the rapid, upside down, just to freak everybody out..... What fun!!