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There is going to be an open boat class at the freestyle national championships this year on Sept 28 in McHenry Maryland. Check out the details here:

http://www.active.com/event_detail.cfm?event_id=1470463

It would be great if we could get a decent open boat class together.

I know that Eli, Jeremy and I will be there so there will be at least 3 competitors. It would be awesome if we could get that number up to around 10.

GhettoJohnny, are you still around? You need to come out for this one.

I just talked to Zach, an up and coming open boater who is friends with Eli and I think he is going to compete so we're already up to 4 people.

dooley,
gonna try to make up there.
haven't been in a boat in about 3 months, except a pool session
also been busy since i took ownership of the East Coast Canoes,
if i can't make it up , let me know and i can give you some swag and prizes to give out.
i'm defiantley coming out to gauley fest, i could give them to you or Eli there.
let me know
john c.
513-479-3050

Sweet! I'm psyched for it!

Oh yeah- I've been helping to plan it, and there's also a boatercross on the schedule. The others who were helping to plan it were really interested in an OC-1 boatercross. The length limit for decked boats for the boatercross is 8'6", but I'm not sure that's a good length limit for canoecross. Any thoughts?

Set the length limit at 12 ft for the open boat class. Let's bring the big boats out for the boatercross.

what is the current size limit?
let's at least have them at 10'
that way i can paddle my spanish fly.
jeremy, by the way, hades of a job with the worlds,
how's the fly treating you?
anyways hope to see you guys at gualey fest
see ya
john

Dooleyoc-1 wrote:Set the length limit at 12 ft for the open boat class. Let's bring the big boats out for the boatercross.

of course if you set it short, you won't have to carry as many boats

philcanoe wrote:
of course if you set it short, you won't have to carry as many boats

That was the idea with the 8'6" limit for kayaks- that way people can race their creekboats, instead of hauling yet another boat around with them to race. It's pretty standard for boatercross races. The problem is, there just aren't that many oc-1 boats that come in close to that (Aftershock?). We could still go with that limit, and race in freestyle boats- (which is probably what I'll do anyway unless I can borrow something longer for the race), but that would exclude spanishflys. If we said 10', that would open it up to spanishflys, preludes, zooms, etc. The idea behind the length restriction is to run what you've got with you anyway. Thoughts?

if having to bringing a second boat, why set any length limit?

It would be a waste of time to do a boatercross in boats shorter than a spanishfly. Cu-Flys and Salsa's would not be fun to race.

What does the feature look like?

Just curious. Might head up to spectate.