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by DouglasGreen
Sat May 10, 2014 2:00 am
Forum: CBoat C Forum
Topic: Vertige X as a solo for a 290 lb. paddler
Replies: 18
Views: 16269

Re: Vertige X as a solo for a 290 lb. paddler

I'm big -- 225 up to 25o one bad year --and love my Outrage for a good creek boat. A bigger buddy around 2560-260 has an Outrage X and we play virtually side by side. Eddies, surfs, sidesurf, they ride us relatively equally. An the Outrage is a fast boat, good acceleration, with lots of rocker, so w...
by DouglasGreen
Sat May 10, 2014 1:58 am
Forum: CBoat C Forum
Topic: Vertige X as a solo for a 290 lb. paddler
Replies: 18
Views: 16269

Re: Vertige X as a solo for a 290 lb. paddler

I'm big -- 225 up to 25o one bad year --and love my Outrage for a good creek boat. A bigger buddy around 2560-260 has an Outrage X and we play virtually side by side. Eddies, surfs, sidesurf, they ride us relatively equally. An the Outrage is a fast boat, good acceleration, with lots of rocker, so w...
by DouglasGreen
Tue Apr 29, 2014 8:31 pm
Forum: CBoat C Forum
Topic: Canoe for the Grand Canyon
Replies: 36
Views: 33408

Re: Canoe for the Grand Canyon

Hi Folks, For what it's worth, I took a Bell Nexus down the Grand Canyon on a solo self-supported trip, launched late October 2012. Good boat for the trip, plenty of volume to strap gear to the bottom of the boat, airbags superinflated above the gear, decked with 3 solar panels to recharge my electr...