What's up with the Spanish Fly logo

[Atucky]

Does anyone have any information about it?

The lettering is pretty interesting to say the least:

http://s171.photobucket.com/albums/u313 ... ishfly.jpg

AdamT

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[mshelton]

Does anyone have any information about it?

I believe it's a fly, also has a sterotypical "spanish" moustache.

[Atucky]

What about the lettering?

[mshelton]

It's black and suggestive of sexual positions, hence being a reference to a drug also know as a Spanish Fly.

[bearboater]

or it's a band of gypsies. but an interesting link to the drug story...
Skaal
-Isaac

[philcanoe]

the Spanish FLy was the second in a three boat series of FLY's, by Frankie Hubbard

The first was the SuperFly, a sweet little canoe...it was the first canoe to feature a
recessed spin disk

The SpanishFly was the second generation, it was specifically designed for the
2001 Worlds Whitewater Rodeo Championships which were held in Catalonia
(near Barcelona, Spain)

And the third FLY is the CUFly, the most pure playboat in the series

[Atucky]

Maybe the next one should be named the "open fly"

Adam

[philcanoe]

or maybe a "ON-THE-FLY" or "FLY-HIGH" for a creek boat

[Col]

Or perhaps..

SUPER FLY

[mshelton]

Frankie Hubbard's dead, so the fly series is probably dead too.

[RodeoClown]

I named the little boat I built this winter for the Worlds on the Ottawa the "Blackfly" in honor of Frankie's "fly" series- and since it's based off a shortened Spanishfly- and cause I hear those little buggers are viscous at the Ottawa this time of year. Whether or not I decide to develop the boat any more after the first prototype, or if it ever makes it to anything resembling production remains to be seen.

I think it would be fair to include the Skeeter as the first of the the "Fly" series as well.

[Atucky]

Rodeo clown,

How much did you chop your spanish fly?

Black fly sounds like a great name for it.


AdamT

[RodeoClown]

17" Overall length is 7'3" The problem with it was that I basically chopped the flat section out of the middle, so there was really no "planing surface"- so it was horribly slow on a wave. Hence the need for a composite version with a better hull- the Blackfly. I think if I chopped one again, I'd angle the cuts (take a longer section out of the bottom than the top) so that it would still have a flat section in the rocker profile. But I'm pretty sure I won't do it again....

The Blackfly has another 4 inches or so taken off the ends- so it's right about 6.5'

Oh, and I made sure to save the Spanishfly logos when I cut them out...

[Craig Smerda]

I know what it means... but if I told you I'd have to kill you.