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With Esquif havin a rotomold oven I wouldn't be suprised if we don't see a new plastic C1 comin down the pike, not some buttboat that can be converted to a C1 not some poorly designed buttboat that makes a OK C1 but a boat designed from the beginin as a Kilt wearers craft.
The good new for all of us is that the nightmare that is starting up a rotomold oven ( I know I reassembled one and built one from strach) will be avoid with Jacgues new toy. He has retained the talent that was with his oven. I believe the September date is very realistic. This is very approate in that it could very well be the first time I get to paddle the Ledge will be on the Gauley, which was the first place I got to paddle the Teaureau.

Now a question for the Kilt wearers out there, was the Adam the last plactic boat designed exclusively as a plastic C1?

Hmmm...I think the last plastic production C1 was the Fink maybe?

As far as I am concerned, the last C1 intended design was the taureau.

OK, it's not PE but it's plastic. OK it was not intended for C1 in the first place but it was intended for single bladers, and with the skirt option now it is a C1.

Wheelboy also came after the Atom.

WHERE'S MARKO?

While reading through the L'Edge announcement I was wondering the same thing. It would be great news for C1ers if a mass produced C1 hit the market from a major North American manufacturer. Hopefully sales would be high enough to sustain continued development instead of just sputtering-out after a couple years.

It is good news, and though I didn't mention C1 in the announcement thread, I did mention that they could easily make other plastic boats (kayaks). I hope Esquif maintains their canoe heritage and doesn't get lured by the 'yak market - you know..like a certain maker that starts with D.

Don't want to bust anyones bubble, but Dagger only started with Canoes because of an aggrement between Bill Masters, and the main founder of Dagger. For a couple of years Dagger couldn't ( by law) build butt boats, and with the other two original owners already involved in building real boats it was a natural temporary phase of Dagger building process. Being in business to make money I don't think there was every really any intend to be mainly a canoe builder, after the Encore no really great canoes came out of in house designs, and until Mike Lady ran Frankie off, Frankies designs were al that keep Dagger in the Canoe business, well the Ledgend ( AKA OCA ) was a good seller.

I was reasured just last Friday that we don't need to worry about seein any dam buttboats with the Esquife name on them. Of course with the mind set of a lot of fosicality open boaters that if it ain't what they think a canoe looks like, they don't or didn't know the designer, it ain't a material their last twelve boats was made out of, it ain't long enough to land a small plane on or that Canada ain't the fifty third state we will proberly screw up the only "good" solely open boat company there is. When we will set around bitchin that no one cares about us.

BTW how about we end the occupation of Qubice, give the southback their independance. Then the union and non occupied Canada could set around talkin about how great the whitewater in Wisconson is. Just an ideal.

Oh boy just what we need. A $1600 C1. No thanks. I'll stick with my remix. By the way louie work sucks in co so i'M heads to the dirty bird see ya soon

hopefully they will start with a good reasonably priced pedestal

Great, we need more single stickers in the SE, too bad it has to be you

So Louie, you have peaked my curiosity. Are you saying Esquif is going to have a dedicated rotomolded C1 boat in September or am I reading to much into this? Can you elaborate any further at this point?

AJ wrote:So Louie, you have peaked my curiosity. Are you saying Esquif is going to have a dedicated rotomolded C1 boat in September or am I reading to much into this? Can you elaborate any further at this point?

no... they won't

No I didn't say that. I said they will have the capability to make rotomold C-1's hopefully by Sept 1st. Let get the open boat molded first, we got to have our priorties.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9ESPi-Lczw

How long does the mold stay in the oven?