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Bought a second Impex Force 4 a few weeks ago. It is Carbon Kevlar and weighs ~ 10lbs less than the other one. It had been the expedition kayak for a local 5 Star Paddler. It has been paddled and abused over many trips. With some elbow grease and hard work; by my Father, she is ready to go again.
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How did he get the deck so blue? Epoxy? I have a faded red canoe I’d like to bring some color to.
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Lots of sanding, then air gun painted with Total Boat - Marine Paint. This blue was the closest stock color they had.
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A good winter project.
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New Boat Day!
Picked up my newsed Impex Currituck on Thursday and yesterday morning was gray with knee-high (sometimes more!) waves, a nice day to go try it out…
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Well dang it wouldn’t upload my pictures.
Seriously, you rant about that kind of put-in, and then you post pic of you using one for your precious boat
I don’t understand those and I have never seen one. Is this for heavy boats or why do people use them?
Here’s some of mine…sold the perception and old Vapor a few months ago. Tarpon 160, Vector 14, Malibu Two XL, Kingfish, Tarpon 100, Flow 105 SUP, Snark sailboat, Vapor 10.
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That’s a lineup! What’s the second-to-the-back one? It looks very purpose-built but I can’t reverse engineer the design brief.
That’s the Snark sailboat. You can kinda see where the daggerboard goes in the center and the mount where the mast goes in. Unfortunately, it broke in half last fall and was not repairable.
I had a Snark many moons ago. Cigarette companies used to put coupon cards in their packages and do promotions for using them to buy sporting goods. I’ve never smoked but worked during my early twenties for a convenience store when I was a student. Customers would toss empty packs in the parking lot and I would collect them and the coupons – traded them in for a Coleman back-packing tent for $30 and a friend bought the Snark, which was $40, eventually selling it to me for $50 a few years later. A friend of hers had made her a new marine plywood dagger-board and rudder after she lost the originals (she was kind of a space cadet and apparently left them in the parking lot after an outing and they never turned up.) The sail was green and white with the “Kool” cigarette logo. My brother pointed out that could stand for “Kerry Out On the Lake”.
I had some pretty good fun with that boat, which was so light I could easily load it myself on the roof of my little Datsun B210 which had a cheap ski rack. The gunwales fit perfectly on the rack and the mast with sail rolled around it clipped under the rubber straps on the ski mounts. I’m 40 minutes from Lake Arthur, which is a great place for small boat sailing. I loaned it a few times to the sailing coordinator in my outdoor club to use for intro classes, also to sit in when he was coaching beginning board sailors. When I moved away and had to downsize my gear hoard in 1996 I sold it to another friend for $75 – no idea where it ended up after that.
I do notice cheap ones pop up on Craigslist and Ebay, so you could probably restore it. Though it looks like you’ve got plenty of other craft to occupy yourself!
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