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Martin I heard it was all the back seat drivers fault (or the crappy spray skirts that were provided)! I can bring it again this year if you two want a second go at it! :-) Yes Paul, that's exactly what I was told, too... :wink: ...! I would be keen to give it another go, but by the looks of it Kar...

Haha, Paul, my girlfriend Karine was less impressed with the Noah Amerika. She calls the boat 'the most retarded thing ever'... :o :roll: :wink: ...maybe it has something to do with us swimming 5 times on our run down the Lower Gauley... :o :wink: The Amerika is an awesome boat, just be careful on w...

Never paddled a Solo, but a friend of mine who had one as a K1 called his the SlowLow. He sold it rather quickly. Wouldn't consider one for a C1 conversion. I have paddled the L'Edge extensively while guiding in Costa Rica and Mexico, so I can draw a few compariosons. No C1 conversion will have the ...

Good choice on the Karma. Just had my Karma M out on some actual creeks for the first tiime last weekend and all I can say it'a the best C1 conversion I ever paddled. It is everything I hoped it to be and then some. Definitely exceeds my expectations. As far as theoutfitting is concerned, at first I...

I have a bias towards Esprit as well, been working there for several years and that's who I recommend, obviously. But in all fairness Costa rica rios is a great outfit, too, with great guides, several former Esprit staff worked there. It boils down to boat preference IMHO. if you want old school boa...

What kind of boat are you looking to rent? I am presuming OC1 or C1. Your options are Turrialba and La Virgen de Sarapiqui. Depends a bit on what boats you are after. Costa Rica Rios is in Turrialba and has some OC1 and C1s. Mostly older and longer Royalex OC1s, think Outrage, Viper, Probes. I think...

Scott, I disagree with you on that they look like SOAR inflatables. While the more tripping oriented boats like the YUkon series does have similarities with the SOAR canoes, the Canoe Amerika tandem and the Canoe 1 solo boat are distinctly different IMHO. They have , by the looks of it, instead of o...

by the looks of it they do, outside of Iran of all places, not have any dealers outside of Central and Eastern Europe.

The Solo boat looks interesting, too. Might be the ticket for overseas travel to places where OC1 or C1s are not readily available for rent.


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Got a question here, particularly for our cboaters from the Czech republic. Has anyone experience with the inflatable canoes from the Czech manufacturer RobFin? The Canoe 1 as well as the Canoe America both look very promising from a whitewater paddlers prospective aand the fact that they are both d...

You don't, that's how !

Seriously though, just put in thigh straps. way less strain on ankles and knees and a way more secure fit to boot.

TGG!

Question for everyone, who do you turn to these days to get a quality custom C1 skirt with an offset tunnel made? Mountain Surf is sadly sill not really in production yet with John still recovering from cancer. Skirtwerks seems to be out of business, as I don't seem to get any responses. So who make...

COOL!!! can't wait to see the pics! Ed's boats are always awesome!!! As far as I can remember there is actually only (apart from the Groove and the kayaks) one mold for the massive boats. The difference beteen the 'normal' and the 'not so normal' boat is in how the sheerline is trimmed. That's at le...

There are a nmber of European inflatable canoes available. Grabner makes, next to the Outside the Adventure, which is a traditional looking inflatable canoe. They have also taken over a few former Metzeler boats, the Indio (traditional looking) as well as the XR Trekking, which may have been the ins...

A good weld should be as strong as the base material of the boat.
As far as whether ornot to shim a saddle in a boat, I think I would rather not. In my humble opinion it stiffens out the hull too much and may cause some stress raisers.

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There are 2 more manufacturers of PE canoes in Europe as well! Big Dog is still producing the Force OC1. Robson makes the Homes, which is, next to the original Armerlite version, also available in a PE version. Sadly they are not widely available in North America. And I am convinced that someone wil...