C-Forum

OK, dopey old me thought maybe they were there for something useful, like tipping into the water and stopping a sideways slide. Like you make a left turn into an eddy and maybe tip the boat to the right while leaning to the left, stop the slide to the right like some kind of powerbrake or something....

I would be interested in coming, I'm not too far away in Syracuse. I'm a museum piece myself. Might see an old friend (boat).
Marc B

I've been off the water a while....like 30 years. My last boat was a Hahn. So I picked up this slasher and I'm slowly getting back into it. Can somebody tell me what those little wings behind the cockpit on the edges are good for? (Tripping over?) Or were they just there to make the bow longer and m...

Anybody run into memorial rock? It took out my C-2 and my paddling partner's cheekbone in the 70's.

I found when learning to roll my slasher (no, I don't hate it, and it was cheap) this winter in the pool that it didn't work well at all if I was out 90 degrees, found the roll went a lot better if I did the whole thing laying pretty close to the front deck. Thinking about getting out 90 degrees fro...

Hey, Joe I just went back to paddling after a 30 year lay off. I had to go through the whole learning to roll in the pool thing again. You don't have to have a pool, but you have to have some water that's quiet and 3 or 4 feet deep and someone to help. I started back by just hanging on the side of t...

OK, I got someone at old town to email me a gif of one page from their 1977 (they say although it seems like it should be from a few years earlier) catalog (page 19) and it's got pics of their fiberglass kayaks and white water canoes. It shows a C-1 that looks like this one called a "WENATCHEE". Say...

nO pROBLEM....No Problem with adds, weighed in. Marc

If it is an old town, it should have an old town logo molded into the deck in stand up relief, probably wood inserts in the floor in a parquet square pattern, and maybe modification of the rear of the cockpit rim if it was originally their "cockpit rim seat" design and the owner cut it out and put i...

I had an early 70's old town berry boat C-2 that I bought out of an old town catalog. The old town catalog also listed a C-1. My C-2 had a white rope through the hole near the end of the deck constructed just like this C-1 has. You could order different colors and the hull was always white and the d...

I seem to remember that Old Town was a selling a C-1 back in the 1970's when they were selling Berry Boats and it seemed to look a lot like that boat. Would have been heavy, probably with a polyester gel coat (retch). Top and bottom halves held together with plastic "H" channel. Or it could be I'm c...

Jim the pain boater, yeah I'd like to get out and do some rivers when it warms up, but I'm going to be early on the learning curve in the splasher so gotta work up to it. Right now I'm just going to the pool here in Syracuse every week and working on my roll. It was nonexistant the first week, but r...

Thanks for all the info, I'm really out of touch and all of this helps. I paddled in the 70's and I was scratching my head reading about "squirt" etc here. I figured out what that means. Boofing I'm still figuring out, guess it's falling over a ledge and smacking into the back roller at the bottom, ...

OK, thanks, I get the idea, bad boat to poke your nose into something, and I gotta admit, since the boat will be new to me, I'm gonna have to take it easy until I see how easy the nose goes down. Guess I'll get another boat for going over drops, everybody seems to agree the cascade's ok for that and...

I'm wondering if it's just personal preference or whether there's really places you can't physically get down in a low volume boat in a narrow class 4-5 creek and you could in a higher volume boat. I saw a comment on here that a low volume boat might kick out of a hole where a high volume boat would...