C-Forum

Open Canoes (Cruising):
Old Town Tripper
Old Town Pathfinder (2)

Open Canoes (Slalom):
Rattler
Reaktor
Cobra*
Spark (dual purpose)*

C1 Cruising:
Max II
Perception C1 (factory kayak conversion circa 1982 - awful)
Perception Dancer (my conversion - better)
Gyramax
Aerobat
Microbat, also known a The ...

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Racing two Edge protos against two Rainbow Boatworks Rattlers (Psyco and I had Rattlers, Frankie had raced one the year before and went home over the winter to create his first two designs). I'm in the No. 2 ...

... few years earlier, we're on the Smith River in Montana, and saw a snake swimming across the river. Well we went to check it out, and it really coiled if itself in the water with head raised, which keyed us into the fact it was a rattler.

And in Northern California, lots and lots of poison oak.

Carol

... the past 21 years and we're still married (last time I looked).
We are the proud owners of a Dagger Caper, MR Howler, Millbrook Prowler, Rainbow Rattler (all OC2) and an old John Sweet C-2.

Although we often paddle II/III, we have regularly done the Lower Yough, Cheat Canyon, New River, lower ...

... Gyramax
Sweet Batmax
Aerobat
Sweet Superbat
Sweet Extrabat (still one of my all-time favorite boats)

Got bored. Added OC1 slalom (1988-ish)
Rattler
Andy Bridge Fanatic II

After '92, when slalom became an Olympic sport, A/B courses got too hard for an old man... Still did C1 in C/D races ...

OC Cruisin':
Old Town Tripper
Old Town Pathfinder (2)
Long time gap...
Esquif Spark

OC Racing:
Rattler
Millbrook Reaktor
Millbrook Cobra

C1 Cruisin'
Max II
(Forgot the name, but it was a Perception kayak with factory C1 outfitting, circa 1976 - terrible boat)
Perception Dancer converted to C1 ...

Bluehole 17A
Loweline (aluminum cruiser)
OCA
Noah Jape C-1
Rainbow Boatworks Rattler
Edge (member of Team Edge)
SuperBatmax from Jesse Whittemore (Aramid Charger)
Same SuperBat cut down with no wings
Shred (squirt C-1 Crae Dalton and I did back in '87)
Skeeter
Super Fly
Spanish Fly
Drifter (new proto ...

... Key point- skilled racers – not sure what you mean by combinations.)

Bob P - I've raced with three differently radical designs: the Rattler (a Cudamax with sides), the Reaktor (Stability? We don't need no stinkin' stability!) and my current boat, the Cobra (narrow, railed and fast ...

I've raced with three differently radical designs: the Rattler (a Cudamax with sides), the Reaktor (Stability? We don't need no stinkin' stability!) and my current boat, the Cobra (narrow, railed and fast). Frankly, the easiest boat to paddle was the Reaktor, but you could never depend on its native ...

Bob,

Thank you for posting my picture. I don't know what I did wrong, but would you be willing to share how to do it right?

Happy paddling -- minus the rattler

Carol

Little Cutie... Some Photoshoping on it:

This picture was taken at the take-out at Eel Rock after our Eel River camp out. We don't know when it got in the canoe.
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We had unpacked the canoes. After everything was out, my husband pulled the canoe into the river and rinsed the sand ...

... told me a story about a guy in a kayak getting worked in a hole below a waterfall. While this was going on a guy at the top of the fall ran into a rattler. He was suprised by the snake and ended up flicking it with his paddle. No where else but right onto the deck of the guy getting worked. Double ...

... hull in like-new condition. Fully outfitted except for airbags (lashing in place). Cost over $1100.00 new. Asking $375.00.

Rainbow Boatworks Rattler OC2 River running/whitewater canoe. 15 ft, rockered Kevlar hull in very good condition, new ash rails. Not outfitted. Cost over $1500.00 new ...

BTW, who is "Psyco" just out of curiosity. Too bad folks don't use their real names in this forum. JRS

Later on, Dave would be the first to run Gorilla (sans the Notch, I ) believe) in an open boat.

Makes a run down Overflow (Wayne Gentry's Southern Fried Creeking) look like a Sunday walk in ...