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.
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
In theory…
…the hour is getting late
I like the color but this Tarpon 140 goes nowhere fast, but neither do I.
The Tarpon 140 was my first kayak. Photo taken in Mission Bay, Auckland.
Cape Falcon F1, latest addition to my armada. I love how SOFs glow from the inside when the sun is low on the horizon.
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.
Excited, I would be too. It does look like it is well done and having the custom float bags what a plus.