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What are you doing the first two minutes? Smoking?

edit: Oh, I see. Insects.

I've never seen this technology - I understand that the boat is made seamless, one-piece, with two-piece mold flush joined in the middle like molds used for metal casting, vacuum bagged - am I right? If so, how do you make the mold halves join really flush? Do you apply some putty to the mold or do ...

FullGnarlzOC wrote:I often find that the knot comes loose on my nose plug tether... what knot should I be tying? Nose plugs are expensive!

Found another good knot. The buntline hitch is the same as the four-in-hand knot used for neckties, although it looks different.

There is no such thing as too fast boat. Any boat allows you to go slower but only some allow you to go faster. And faster is safer anytime you are heading somewhere you did not intend. In fact, faster boat can travel slower in relation to the obstacles, because it is faster upstream as well. There ...

I often find that the knot comes loose on my nose plug tether... what knot should I be tying? Nose plugs are expensive! I don't know how you tie it, do you put a loop on each end of the string? A figure-of-eight loop holds quite well when wet. A bowline secured with single or double overhand knot i...

I do bubble air out my nose when taking a bath, though :D That's good practice. Helps to build muscle memory. :D I just need both hands to wash my hair and this is the easiest way :D But many things unrelated to canoeing can be made canoe-friendly, like trying to roll an air mattress in a garden po...

That's what I'm afraid of: getting too used to the nose clip and starting to need it. But I started using one for decked C1 as I found that my roll is quite doubtful if I snort a shot of cold water. I assume it would get better even without the nose clip, as most of my canoeing experience is from op...

i just saw the price of a board/paddle for $2500! ay kittery trading post. that wold be 2 octane91 boats for me.50% of the boarders i have seen this season have been on thier knees paddling. the interesting thing i find is gender specific boards. sup for women are advertised on here too. Some canoe...

Vacuum chrome plating. It's not a simple process that can be done at home, it is done in a large vacuum chamber by evaporating the metal. But I'm quite sure I've seen some kind of paint that looks almost as if the thing was chrome plated. Neither would last on a whitewater boat but it could be fun. ...

Make denim airbag protectors

And if you put a black stripe on it, it will look like an aircraft from the 50's - look at the F-86s

Well, visually it's not that different from early 80's slalom C1s, except you stand on it My cousin has a board, I'll have to borrow it and get something to extend my two-piece paddle. If you can do pivot turns on it, it can't be that bad, and I have no problem with looking silly.

SBroam is right: Get a SUP paddle or a long regular one and use it in your traditional canoe. Once you get the hang of it, it's possible to tackle easier whitewater this way, with much better view, longer reach and more fun. For sport paddlers it's yet another way to run a rapid you have grown out o...

Oh, an OC1 with the bottom similar to slalom C1s? This is the boat of my dreams (and my computer's dreams too)! How soon is soon?

There is one thing much cooler - I know a guy who uses a helmet worn not by Imperial Stormtroopers but WWI Sturmtruppen (M1916 Stahlhelm) :D Of course he uses it only on easy water just for the looks, but I think that it might be fun to take some ballistic helmet (for example the Nazis used one - th...

The only hinged seat that I currently use is in my C1. It's a bucket that needs only a limited amount of motion for safety, so it's basically loosely bolted in, sitting in a cradle that locates it. The design is not appropriate for an open boat. Both my OCs have the same bucket, rigidly mounted. Th...