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Looks like a tuper ware boat missing the microwave top.
pretty cool though!
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Post by Larry Horne »

nice work! somebody obviously has excellent fabricating skills and access to a killer shop!

I don't get though. What's the point in paddling a gigantic boat once you take away the challenge of staying dry? :roll:

I wonder if it sounds like thunder..
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Would be fun to sit at the eddy below a drop and give people a 'drum roll' on for their boofs/carnage. That's some great workmanship..
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Seems like a WHOLE lot of work - to make yet another C1..... :roll:
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I wonder what it added in weight? Nice to know that the celery is still crisp at lunch though.
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Post by Craig Smerda »

I'm impressed because it appears to be bead rolled aluminum sheet on the bow/stern and the craftsmanship to create that cockpit rim for a skirt... incredible.

THAT my friends took some serious time and thought... and skill.

The only thing I'd not like (based off riding a Harley with lot's of chrome on it in the past) is that the sun's reflection coming off the aluminum would burn the underside of my chin and the bottom of my nose in a very short amount of time on a bright cloudless day... probably a good thing he didn't polish it.

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Bob is skillfull on aluminium/metal craft and water craft. He is a dam good paddler.
But check his website to get the measure of his workmanship:
http://www.conceptracing.co.uk/index.shtml

His canoeing van is outstanding, complete with oven and paddle shaped paddle cupboard!!!
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Oh and he wears a skirt on that because he HATES the cold.
It's astonishing to think he can be so nimble on the water considering the number of layers he wears!!!
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Yup... I figured him for a race-car or aircraft fabricator :D

Nice stuff... "Concept Vortex" looks like a barrel of fun.
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Yet another C1 advantage, they are much warmer than open boats in cold weather, or to put it plainly, when the rivers are up. I would not even make mention of this were it not for the constant derogatory coments about C1s by ob people. I would think we are more akin than different.
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Post by the great gonzo »

Actually, whether or not OC1 or C1 is warmer in the winter is debatable to a Point. In big water without dry lines or with big drops where the open boat invariably fills up, yes, a C1 is warmer. In low volume technical rivers whith loos of boofs I found the OC to be warmer overall if you can run dry lines. The reason is that in the C1 every wave washes over the deck and the cold water hits your body, cooling you out, while an OC deflects the water to the side, keeping one dry.

Back to Bob's zoom, amazing work :o :D !

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I like "dry" canoes :lol:
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imagine
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Post by Rand C1 »

Thats not really true, the closed deck traps the wamth of you legs and warms you quite effectivly splashy water or not.
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