Where have all the c boats gone

Longboatin · Post by **Longboatin** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:56 pm

Hey where were all the cboats at Stony Creek Rendezvous? Besides the LB Crew, only saw one openboat and a C-1 on the canyon, and the next day on Shade, didn't see any.
Just as I suspected, all anyone likes to do on this site is bench race boat designs, or boast how many boats their gonna carry on the car to the Armada. Buncha lightweights, if'n I didnt know better I'd think I was dealin with a bunch a pinhead yakkers.

bearboater · Post by **bearboater** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:03 pm

why do you have this negative attitude all of the time?

msims · Post by **msims** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:37 pm

I don't think it's a negative attitude. It's just a different attitude

just like when the biker gangs roll into a small town, with their Hogs bleating out "BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWW". People cower and think, "hey these are a bunch of tough mofos".. but really they're just huggable accountants and lawyers and happy christians riding cuz they love it. (Nevermind the Bandito's internal mass murder-cum-internal cleansing that happenned in S. Ontario a couple weeks ago - 8 people dead!)

So personally I always smile when I see the LB crew ride into the Cboat forum, all "BRAAAAAAAWWWWWW" and stuff ... Of course I'm probably smiling because, like in those small towns, I'm like the kid on the two-wheeler imitation motocross peddle-bike from Canadian Tire - who thinks, "hey, those guys are KOOL!"

....Of course, I'm not sure if I'll ever be part of the LB crew.... with my 7'6" C1 playboat, or my sub-standard open-boat preferences, (under 12' is best!)....

But until then, I'll just stare in awe as the LB crew barrels down the river, clears the eddys, P'O's the yakkers, and then rumbles on down the river, yellin, "Y'INS all be too short!"....

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Post by **PAC** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:01 am

Well I guess with everything else going off (Indian, Jacobs, Meadow Run, all of WV, etc.), coupled with the price of gas some of us couldn't justify the drive. Sometime a Cboater has to do what a Cboater has to do!
Hope you had fun...we did!

PS: By the way, as a telemarker, calling me a "pinhead" is okay, but blanket referencing me as a "kayaker"... come on man! Where's the love?!?!?!?

Post by **sbroam** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:22 am

Cuz we didn't go where you went, we ain't paddlin'?

Nessmuk · Post by **Nessmuk** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:40 am

I was on the Stoney saturday and sunday. Mostly yaks in my group, but we had two other OC's with us on saturday.

And you would have been proud, Longboatin- one of the OCs was a Probe 14.

I spent some "quality" time in a couple of holes (much to the amusement of my yakker friends) and found out the answer to my question "how sticky can it be?"

Outside of my group, I saw maybe a half dozen other C-boaters on the river over the weekend- pretty typical.

But not as bad as Beaverfest last september, when me, my friend, and a lone C1 were the only C-boats on the river.

bearboater · Post by **bearboater** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:02 am

plus LB, if you were really motivated, and wanted to see other c-boats out there, long or short, you could have announced this event. which more than likely would have helped bring people out of the woodwork. and my only other question is why does it matter what we talk about, does it occur to you that maybe we boat alot, and also post alot. for instance, i have 37 days on water this year. for having had no ice on the water for only 2 and a half weeks, thats not bad.
-isaac

ohioboater · Post by **ohioboater** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:40 pm

I was there on Saturday and had a blast. Nice run.

Saw about six other openboats on vehicles at the festival, but none of them on the river. Wish I could have stuck around for Sunday - looked like pretty much everything in that watershed was running.

David Good · Post by **David Good** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:42 pm

I apologize, I really waned to be there and this is the first time I've missed this event since I started paddling. It's my FAVORATE run...

Unfortunately I have family commitments in South Louisiana...

If the water comes up out there drop me a line, I'll be there (at least once I've fixed my cash flow problem 400miles @ $2.80/gal is a bit to much for me right now.)

On another note anyone want to paddle the BSF in the few couple of weekends. I'll need to get down there for one weekend somewhere in the next three weekends.

Take It Easy,

David

Louie · Post by **Louie** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:39 pm

there were four openboats on the Upper Santeelah 2 Teaureaus, 1 Skeeter, 1 Quake. Ain't real sure that the glass boat bunch would have like it , well they would have like the river just not what the river would have done to their boats.

Bruce Farrenkopf · Post by **Bruce Farrenkopf** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:29 am

Hello Longboatin,
Three C1ers on the West Coast had a 'River Rendevous' of sorts on the Middle Fork of the Yuba this past Monday. C boaters are rare out here, so the fact that three of us got together to run a river with no kayakers around is something to talk about. We ARE around - just difficult to see among the swarms of kayakers

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SYOTR,
Bruce

C1Dub · Post by **C1Dub** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 5:27 pm

I paddled on the Stony with 2 C1er's from Virginia on Sunday. Had a great time.

C1dub

CosmikDebris · Post by **CosmikDebris** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 7:11 pm

Hey, why don't you come down south of the Mason-Dixon and take yer 'scade down some real rapids! We ain't skeert of long boats or long rapids down here

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Alden · Post by **Alden** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:28 am

paddled with about 24 other c-1ers this weekend, including several Canadians (it was a race). only guy who was missing was Chad Lewis . . .
Alden

bearboater · Post by **bearboater** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:23 am

alden, was graig allen there?
he is on the canadian national C! team ,and an amazing paddler.
by the way his boat is a cut down vajda lizard to 355.
since were talking of racing
I like to race.
cheers
-isaac

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Where have all the c boats gone

Where have all the c boats gone

Well....

I was there

Stoney...

On Sat.

Stonycreek

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