You’re gonna need another cold shower to reduce that swelling, buddy.
Very inappropriate, meant as a beautiful person…
I’m still waiting for a photo of you in a paddle boat or even next to one.
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Well it ain’t the Texas Water Safari, but it is nice…
Looks great to me
Hard to impress someone with a Patch…
I’m impressed by anyone who takes the time to get outside and play and share and describe their experiences here…. There is room for everyone in a community
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In theory…
…the hour is getting late
I like the color but this Tarpon 140 goes nowhere fast, but neither do I.
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The Tarpon 140 was my first kayak. Photo taken in Mission Bay, Auckland.
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Cape Falcon F1, latest addition to my armada. I love how SOFs glow from the inside when the sun is low on the horizon.
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Gorgeous! I paddled one on Lake Jordan or Falls Lake NC (I forget which one) that a woman had made in a class years ago. I really liked the way it handled. Congratulations. Did you build it? Rusty (did the kayak lesson last week) and I are thinking about building skin on frames. Hopefully this year,
Thanks, CO! Pretty excited about this qajaq.
I had been thinking of building an SOF myself for a long time (I had a chance to try an F1 at one of the QajaqUSA skills camps and was impressed). I was going to shoot for it this year.
My beloved 17 year old West Greenland SOF (built by an Oregon-based American Buddhist monk) has a broken “tail” frame and desperately needs a re-skin, so I was torn between restoring it and building something shorter that I could transport more easily in the 16’ “cabin” of my box truck camper (the WG is nearly 18’ long). I have vast workshop spaces now at my new place (3 of them, in fact). OR I could sign up for the workshop with master builder Anders Thygesen, at the 2025 Delmarva skills retreat in October. The class last year built 8 exquisitely beautiful boats under his guidance in the week before the 4 day camp event.
Then, out of the blue yesterday, the F1 showed up on local Facebook marketplace, less than 90 minutes from home. Contacted the seller, who is reducing a personal fleet that included a couple of Rebels (an Illaga and a Naja), though they are keeping their Romany. Turns out that the F1 was built for somebody about my size, by a James Madison U engineering prof who has his students build SOFs as lab projects. Price was far less than I would have spent on the build seminar and it comes with custom flotation bags with their own placement rigging. Handily, it even takes the same size skirt as 3 of my other boats. I’ll be picking it up Monday and the drive back takes me right past 3,225 acre Lake Arthur so I can “sea trial” it if the rain holds off. I’ll take it with me to the Maine coast in July, along with the “beater” composite Avatar 16.
I am somewhat embarrassed to admit that I now have a baker’s dozen in the fleet. 1 rotomold, 3 composites, 2 SOFs, 6 folders and a solo canoe. Well into hoarding territory, though I have had all but the 4 that are awaiting repairs in the water over the past 3 years. I need to do some culling myself this Summer.
More views of the F1. Looks like a quality build.
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Excited, I would be too. It does look like it is well done and having the custom float bags what a plus.