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... Now, as to a truly revolutionary design, I will nominate the original Natan [or Yugo] C-1. This was designed by Natan Bernot of Yugoslavia in 1961 and molded by David Kurtz and his Post 32 Explorer Scouts in State College, PA. It hit the water in 1962 and changed canoe slalom forever. My older ...

Thank you for all the great images!

I'm going to guess that it's a Natan C1 -2 (or Yugo 2), but anyone with Sue Taft's book (I can't recall who I loaned my copy too!) should be able to tell if it's the same boat she has a picture of Dave Kurtz in or not....

If I mysteriously find my copy on my ...

If the ends are higher, it may indeed be an early Hahn. I'd certainly like to see (and have:) an image of it...

If it's not a Hahn, perhaps a Lettman or Natan (aka Yugo)?

Hey Scott,

Look in the C1 Race Boat Section. Click on the Natan C-1 (yugo) from 1961. THis kinda tells you how it all started. 8)

Your question made me think. We take an canoe and fill it stuff to displace the water, is it still an open boat? What's a deck, ie solid or not?

What about materials ...

... Perhaps this was due to the fact that the Poles, unlike the Czechs and Yugoslavs, represented no threat to East German dominance.

In the middle of ... Sweet
This report is pretty accurate. The original Yugo was designed by Natan Bernot of Yugoslavia [Slovenia] while he was a grad student or post-doc ...

... time, the Europeans had all of the state of the art designs (except the Yugo boats that were designed by Natan Bernot that were built here) so it was probably a design that was brought back from the 65 Worlds. I'll ask around.


Posted on Jan 27, 2000, 10:49 AM