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by Jim Michaud
Wed Mar 17, 2004 3:54 pm
Forum: CBoat C Forum
Topic: Mike Yee outfitting question
Replies: 5
Views: 3045

An added note to free floating saddles: Extend the saddle so that it passes under a couple of thwarts but don't attach the saddle to the thwarts. Leave a few inches of air between the saddle and the thwarts so that the canoe can flex. In case of a pin the saddle will contact the thwarts preventing t...
by Jim Michaud
Wed Mar 17, 2004 3:01 am
Forum: CBoat C Forum
Topic: Mike Yee outfitting question
Replies: 5
Views: 3045

One advantage to a free floating saddle is that the bottom of your boat will last longer. When the canoe rides over a rock a free floating saddle will ride over the rock also. If the saddle is held down by the thwarts the canoe will flex until the rock gets to the saddle then a great deal of stress ...
by Jim Michaud
Fri Nov 28, 2003 4:56 am
Forum: CBoat C Forum
Topic: good open boat
Replies: 9
Views: 4529

Bill, If you're paddling Sprite Creek in an OC-1 then your doing real well. I agree with Martin that a boat made out of PE would be the way to go but I'm not too sure about the Prelude though. I've never paddled one but from the pictures and the description I don't think that I ever will. It is much...
by Jim Michaud
Tue Nov 25, 2003 3:02 pm
Forum: CBoat C Forum
Topic: Repair cracking inside royalex Outrage
Replies: 8
Views: 5649

My suggestion is to cover the cracks with a piece of vinyl. I was able to obtain some scrap vinyl from a raft manufacturer and I've been using it to repair the cracks inside the boat. Just glue it on with Vynabond like you would a D-ring patch. :) My cracks happen due to running steep creeks in an O...
by Jim Michaud
Mon Nov 17, 2003 7:15 pm
Forum: CBoat C Forum
Topic: how old and how long have you paddled
Replies: 29
Views: 24100

I'm 65. I started paddling whitewater in 1967 in a Grumman 15 ft. canoe complete with a lake keel. I upgraded to an Old Town Tripper in the early seventies after destroying the Grumman in the rapids. I switched to paddling a C-1 in the late seventies and then back to an OC-1 about ten years later. I...
by Jim Michaud
Fri Oct 10, 2003 2:55 am
Forum: CBoat C Forum
Topic: have there been many female c-1ers to run the green?
Replies: 11
Views: 4712

Heidi Domeisen ran the Green Narrows about 10 years ago in a Cascade. I was there in an OC-1. We didn't run Gorilla or Sunshine though.