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CLC Patuxent 17, absolute garbage in waves, bow disapeared with water to the coaming in 1’ bay waves.
Mariner Express,it’s stripped of deck rigging, needs some work and no one wants to buy it. Maybe I should take a clue it can’t leave me.
Clearwater St Lawrence
That was my first kayak purchased and resold years ago. Poor cockpit design,leaky,oilcanned like mad,not enough recess on the coaming so the skirt wouldn’t stay on.It was only 15.5 feet long but was the stiffest tracking boat I’ve ever been in,sort of a molded skeg on the bow no less.A glorified rec boat disguised as a sea kayak but it did take me and my daughters lot of places and enabled me to learn what kind of kayaking I wanted to pursue.
My brother in law still owns it but he gets out once or twice every season so it’s fine for him.
It was great to see it disappear down the road on the roof of someone elses car.
Bert
Do ya think
we’ll ever have a queen for president?
Royalex Wenonah Adirondack
It was Wenonah’s first year making royalex. The royalex was soft as a baby’s behind and oil-canned if you looked at the bottom of the hull. It was olive colored inside and out, and it was almost too HOT to paddle in the summertime. Had two tuffweave Adirondack’s and loved them. I hated the royalex version.
I miss my blue OT Loon 138. Beautifull boat, good to paddle in the wind, comfortable for a long day. Didn’t sell it, I traded it along with a truckload of walnut in exchange for three paddles and a bookcase to a FORMER P.netter. After three and a half years I’ve received ONE funky paddle and the guy wouldn’t return e-mails or phone calls for the last three years. I LEARNED MY LESSON! I could get another Loon, but they don’t make that pretty, deep, royal blue color anymore, and I believe they quit making the Loon with the large cockpit. WW
Miss the Dagger Crossfire
Had a black and yellow Crossfire ww kayak that looked like a really rotten banana. Anyone seen it? Boy, I miss that boat. Thought I’d be a rodeo star, and have realized for some time that I just like to eddy hop down mad rivers and have some fun.
Who ever has my green fbg Mohawk Sportsman14 can keep it. I had a ton of fun in that boat, but I didn’t know any better. Hell, I don’t hunt OR fish.
-rs
I’ll write-in RuPaul
No, it’s the same
The apostrophe as contraction (editor’s = editor is) is the same in Merkin and Brit English.
Yep, they quit the big cockpit. You can
pick 'em up for $400 on texaskayakfisherman.com, but haven’t seen the blue. A friend and I both have 138’s we use for fishing, both fresh and salt. great boats.
Radisson
’nuff said?
Design + Materials
The Old Town Tripper (Rx) deserves its good reputation. The design did not translate well to Poly, so the Discovery 169 is on the far side of awful.
I once bought a canoe because it looked very good in cedar. Unfortunately, it was designed sort of like a shortened aluminum tub with a bit of a hogged keel. For perspective, it could never ever keep up with any other boat it was with, regardless of who was paddling it.
Actually
You are right, I stand corrected.
I don’t miss my GyraMax
My first whitewater canoe (decked). It was like paddling a big fluffy marshmallow. Uhg!
I also don’t miss my Whipit C1. Paddled like a family of hyperactive squirrels.
It isn’t gone quite yet but when I break it I’m going to truely miss my Outrage. Sweet boat.
Tommy
2 I don’t miss at all
The Wenonah Sundowner that the Darryls traded for an 18 Jensen when they changed classes. They used to beat Vitamin Ray and me every time we raced. My wall looks like #2 pine with all the second place finishes to that one canoe.
The Canadian cedar strip racer that the Gills paddled till they went to C-4 class. Saw way too much of that canoe from behind as they put big leads on Gearwoman and me. I’ll probably get real tired of looking at their C-4 since we go head to head again and they keep beating us.
what were we talking about?
A couple
The boat I’ve still got, so I can’t miss it, is the Mainstream Jon Buoy. I bought it to use it as a big kayak. It’s sold as a kayak. I rigged it out and put it on the New River for a shakedown in current and took over 6" of water in the first half of a class 2 wave train - dead ahead shoals rapid. Enter center and work your way center kind of stuff. Not a river boat. I got a trolling motor for it and will use it as a jon boat on small electric only lakes for fishing. Very well suited to that purpose.
The one I miss, but not too much is my Wave Sport Diesel 75. I sold it so that I could buy a lesser whitewater boat, the Dagger Approach. Why sell a hot rod to buy a station wagon? 'Cause I’m on the river to fish. Fishing didn’t work out so well from the Diesel. The Approach is well suited to my purpose, and I love it. But I sure did like that Wave Sport. Sold it to a friend, so maybe I’ll get to see it on the river from time to time.
- Big D