Drakkar Fatboy Pics

Larry Horne · Post by **Larry Horne** » Wed May 18, 2011 4:34 pm

Stumbled upon these from a few years ago and thought some might be interested..

Sir Adam · Post by **Sir Adam** » Wed May 18, 2011 4:38 pm

I wonder what ever happened to that plug.

So much potential....

Craig Smerda · Post by **Craig Smerda** » Wed May 18, 2011 4:38 pm

thanks... I'd been looking for those for a while now.

had them saved on a laptop that lost a whole lot of pictures.

markzak · Post by **markzak** » Wed May 18, 2011 5:04 pm

Somewhat offtopic and somewhat on topic, but a buddy has an American Flag design Drakkar BigBoy (a bigger Wheelboy I think), for sale in Northeast, PA. Let me know if anyone is interested, the boat is in impeccable shape with the kevlar/composite original saddle and outfitting. I think he wants $1,100 but its been sitting for awhile and would probably take less to put the funds into his new house.

ncdavid · Post by **ncdavid** » Wed May 18, 2011 6:40 pm

The Captain America boat is beautiful. I took it up to Pennsylvania when Elijah bought it from Bill Reap.

Bruce Farrenkopf · Post by **Bruce Farrenkopf** » Wed May 25, 2011 7:23 pm

Why not take that plug and wrap a composite layup around it? It would be a trip (back into the past) to actually paddle a LIGHT boat in whitewater, instead of heavy plastic. Of course, I would have to be alot more careful.....

It would still be worth doing

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SYOTR,

Bruce

oopsiflipped · Post by **oopsiflipped** » Thu May 26, 2011 4:09 pm

wow, that looks like the diesel and the spanish fly had a mongoloid love child!

Larry Horne · Post by **Larry Horne** » Thu May 26, 2011 10:28 pm

a chunky 98 gallon love child

Bruce Farrenkopf · Post by **Bruce Farrenkopf** » Mon May 30, 2011 2:04 am

The last two posts demonstrate one of the reasons why we won't see any new C1 designs in plastic. We are not very supportive of the few 'brave' designers who take a big chance with the C1 market. The C1 community seems to be its own worst enemy

. We eat our young.

It is an amazing phenomenon to watch.

No offense intended.

Bruce

Larry Horne · Post by **Larry Horne** » Mon May 30, 2011 4:54 am

Oh, come on bruce! That's too funny.
We were all supportive SIX YEARS AGO when that plug was an actual work in progress. Remember now... who was in on that first wheelboy shipment?

Nowadays I bet that plug is buried under 15 ft berry vines out in some back pasture. Marko is probably selling insurance and making and lots of money, So I doubt our comments will have any detrimental impact on it's progress.

Now, I think you need to be supportive and get out and actually paddle your c1, instead of going climbing in the rain and snow.

Bruce Farrenkopf · Post by **Bruce Farrenkopf** » Mon May 30, 2011 3:13 pm

Point well taken

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Let's go play in our Drakkar Wheelboys sometime!

SYOTRiver,

Bruce

Larry Horne · Post by **Larry Horne** » Mon May 30, 2011 4:08 pm

Yeah! I need to get my roll working reliably again so some playboating is in order.

TheKrikkitWars · Post by **TheKrikkitWars** » Mon May 30, 2011 10:35 pm

Bruce Farrenkopf wrote:The last two posts demonstrate one of the reasons why we won't see any new C1 designs in plastic. We are not very supportive of the few 'brave' designers who take a big chance with the C1 market. The C1 community seems to be its own worst enemy . We eat our young.

It is an amazing phenomenon to watch.

No offense intended.

Bruce

Meh, they invariably try to be all things to all people after coming by the notion that they should be aiming to be financially succesful.

Jeremy's blackfly was made to do one thing really well; and turned out to be a good boat for other things too allowing him to (as far as I can tell) make a run of it...

Plus, until someone makes a C1 that's verifiably better than a Jefe Grande, Remix or H3/Burn/Everest (depending on what you like) convertion why bother even considering it?