What am I - boat needs identified....
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What am I - boat needs identified....
Jim Kelly-Rand just picked up an interesting boat that needs IDed.
Attached are some links to photos of it. Thoughts as to what it is?
http://picasaweb.google.com/paulcline20 ... 8614178914
http://picasaweb.google.com/paulcline20 ... 0386890642 I like the humor!
http://picasaweb.google.com/paulcline20 ... 3400444626
Thanks all!
Attached are some links to photos of it. Thoughts as to what it is?
http://picasaweb.google.com/paulcline20 ... 8614178914
http://picasaweb.google.com/paulcline20 ... 0386890642 I like the humor!
http://picasaweb.google.com/paulcline20 ... 3400444626
Thanks all!
Paul C.
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I can't remember what he called it
but Marshell Fox had one just like it. Kinda looks like the same paint job or at least by the same person
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Not a Groove.
I have two thoughts, both of which are likely wrong:
1) Years ago while in college a fellow by the name of Joel was designing a C1 and he and I corresponded a bit about what it might look like. A lot of our thoughts are in that boat, but it could easily be coincedence, as a lot of folks were looking for some of the lines I see in that boat in the mid 90's.
2) Take a slalom boat, cut it WAY down, and redo the cockpit with a turret...
Nice looking boat though! I'd like to know more about it...and to paddle it!
I have two thoughts, both of which are likely wrong:
1) Years ago while in college a fellow by the name of Joel was designing a C1 and he and I corresponded a bit about what it might look like. A lot of our thoughts are in that boat, but it could easily be coincedence, as a lot of folks were looking for some of the lines I see in that boat in the mid 90's.
2) Take a slalom boat, cut it WAY down, and redo the cockpit with a turret...
Nice looking boat though! I'd like to know more about it...and to paddle it!
Keep the C!
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I was thinking Meltdown, but then I looked at one in the gallery and it's not that.
Something by the Shaggy boys?
Something by the Shaggy boys?
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Per Jim Gross....
No real name on it - just another creation of Jim's. I was thinking it was a proto-groove as well!The boat he posted on Cboats .net needing ID is one of my prototypes. I built that boat in the basement at a place in Arlington I shared with Karen Robine. The boat wound up being too low volume and unstable with the narrowness of the bow area. I first float tested it on a lake in Reston Va and Little Falls. So far so good. I took it down the Lower Yough one day and still good. Then I launched on the Cheat around #feet one day. Our Jay not Elvis was there. The boat was squirrely and I took off at decission. Came back and caught up by Coloseum or Pin Ball I think. I gave the boat to Richard Hopley to pass on to the Chapelles as their C-1 son was small. I saw Sheila a year or so and found our her son never really got the hang of it. I wondered what happened to that boat. I had given more than one of my designs away back then. Charlie Walbridge even got one of them. He quickly wrenched his back as he did not anticipate the incredible responsiveness to the "Lochsa" I designed to do 4 day self supported tripping. My original concept for the boat in question here today was a cross between an early Piranha boat and a Huricane. Mighta had enough volume if I coulda set on ma butt in it, but alas it was exclusively a C-1.
JIM
But I agree with Craig - we need to take it out for further investigation!
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Pretty sweet boat! I see a lot of similarities with other boat designs:
- - edges and ends look like a Meltdown or Viper
- Hull shape and convex decks look like a Groove
- Cockpit looks very much like a Groove/Jim Gross special
- Paint job looks to be lacking metalflake, so it must not be all that good of a boat
Very nice, Jim. Maybe we can create a name for it? I'm thinking, "Sumpin Gross"
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