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....snip.. The conference organizers warn participants not to plan on driving at all due to the signs all being in French. ......... I'm a small town boy who's used to leaving a boat on the rack and not worrying about it - will that be an issue if my car is sitting in a downtown parking garage for ...

As of mid- January, you need a passport to get into Canada (and Mexico) FOR SURE. Period. K Sorry to disagree, but this isn't true. You need a passport, for sure, if you are FLYING. The rules for driving & boating across the border are still the old rules. I do agree with everyone's advice. Get a p...

......snip........ My creek stick has a carbon blade and a wood shaft with dynel sleeve. Very stiff and tough. I like the fabric tip, which is much better than aluminum. Interesting.... I have 2 Echo paddles and love them. Both are Pursuit paddles with Aluminum tips and I wouldn't go back to fabric...

Louie wrote:We sell beer 24/7 and Liguor is only five miles away.

Louie - as a Canadian, I need to ask are those 24/7 stores selling REAL beer, or just the watered-down 3-4% facimile that Gayakers would probably drink. No training beer for us - we want the full strength stuff.

I can't remember the size of the air bags, so I'll have to go back and check. WRT camping equipment - this would be hard to do. The openings into the bulkheads are small. In the front, it is just the size of your knee openings, which is pretty small. Sure, you can stuff food into there, and a stove....

I am working on putting togther a 24v system, .....snip.......he sugested the idea of getting some kind of probe that detects being submerged in water and installing a circut for that probe to turn the pump on and off and still having a manual switch to use if needed. Has anybody thought and/or don...

A question about your pump/battery setup. The one you run at 14.4V - do you have trouble tripping the max discharge rate protector on the battery? I have a Rule pump here (1000GPH, model 20A). It claims a 2.9A draw at 12V and a 4.0A draw at 13.6V. The fuse in the pump is 5A. I was worried that if I...

I'd think with NAFTA you wouldn't get hurt TOO bad with purchasing personal goods from the US, but I don't know for sure. If I can find anything out for certain I'll post here for all to see. I haven't ordered from CafePress, but the thing that can really hurt is brokerage fees. Fedex is probably t...

from battery space. Do you use the Atwood 1250 pump? The lead battery is great, but I am ready to switch to lithium batteries to decrease weight. Wendy - I think I used the 14.8V battery pack from the following URL: http://www.batteryspace.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=2477 The costs inc...

I do recommend lithium ion batteries if you have the money for them. I bought a big battery pack with built in protection (short circuit and over-charge) at Batteryspace.com, but there are other plans available that use off-the-shelf rechargable LiI batteries. Very light, and compact!!! I use the Pe...

I saw the prototype on Sunday and it looks pretty good. I didn't paddle it though. From my quick conversation with the Shaggy guys between surfs, here's what I remember: just short of 6.5 ft in length 26inch width As Martin said, the bottom half of the boat is a Shaggy Saint. The upper half is C1 pu...

....snip..... From what I can see, WW canoeing is pretty much a dying sport. Two things have really convinced me of this: 1) the youngest WW open boater I know is in her late 30's; very few new (young) paddlers seem to be coming into the sport; 2) a beginner OC1 WW instructional I am teaching for m...

I have a picture of the white one, but remember it is only available as a prototype.

I don't have a website to post the picture though. If you really want a copy, the pm me.[/img]

I don't own one, but 2 demo Zephyrs were at PalmerFest this last weekend, and I witnessed one of them in a clinic doing scrub moves, and slides, and rock assisted eddy turns. There were no deep gouges at all. In the same clinic, an Ocoee (royalex) had some significant scratches. It looks like the ma...