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Anyone convert one of these?

I am traveling and need to buy a boat fast and found one of these.

John

I agree with the paddling against the arc bit-- generally developing cross current momentum before the lip is good. When that is not possible I boof as late as possible and actually reach under the boat to execute a modern c stroke as I boof. mostly just the second half of the stroke though, not muc...

Don't confuse the boof stroke with a strong forward, they are two different techniques. in terms of boofing that forward back motion is the stroke, the paddler is trying to create that bobbing motion (bow poping up and down) because they want to push the center of gravity in front of themselves in o...

Wayne- your putting your daughter in a canoe instead of kayak.
Are you OK?

John

working on my dirt bag credentials

Looking to meet up with folks in NZ to paddle
Also trying to locate an open boat.

John

also

looks like it is under-predicting

on boater talk someone posted a reading of 13.5 at 2:30 today and 9inches at 5:30

little faith you have
interested in the watuga though, how about wed?

John

wilsons got 4 inches of rain last night
who wants to run it tomarrow?

J. Wood

oh no serious thread hi-jacking One of the issues here is that we are talking across a huge cultural divide. The EU systems (also prevalent in NZ and other EU influenced countries like Venezuela) has always been heavy on certification. The US isn't as much but may be slowly moving that way (the AMGA...

Yep In terms of guiding and instruction having taken an ACA course is the standard. No doubt thats sketchy, especially because many organizations just want to know you have taken it but don't provide a time frame for re-taking (and with the ACA not being a cert that expires, there is no reason to re...

Tod dito the bit on certification, ACA is the industry standard though go to the land mark learning web page and check them out have taken a number of different courses with them to stay up on certs for work and all have been high quality. http://www.landmarklearning.org/ John (still wants pics of t...

Boof it

Boof late, boof often.

Diagonal boofs are a good idea in long boats, clears the stern.

Oh, and don't forget to cross-bow-smash

A smaller ledge
all the kayak companies make boats in smaller sizes why not canoes

The Ledge is in my arm pit when I paddle it.

Or said another way, add some speed to the hull and volume to the ends of the Spanish fly.

J. Wood

Just ran it with my j. Edmonds Elf style Passed on the big one, log in the landing it had enough water to run the bottom slide and the big laurel was at -1 foot so I think it could run a bunch. Topo maps make it look like it has a big watershed. Without the big one it could be a good beginner creek....