Boat Forum / Paddle Boats / April 2005

Someone on another forum (non-paddling) is looking to buy a cheap and stable recreational kayak to use as a platform for photography
on sheltered water.  He lives in Manassas, VA.  Can anyone recommend stores in that area where he might be able to rent some
different types to help ...

I am thinking of getting a small inflatable boat of some kind to ferry
myself across smaller western rivers (e.g. Gunnison in CO) during high water
when they become too deep to wade across. I just want something that would
be manageable to cross fairly fast current (not white water) ...

Assateague Island National Seashore
Paddlers - Topher, c2g Dave, McWood, McCrea
Boats - Bell Rob Roy, Sawyer Loon, Kruger Sea Wind, Clipper Sea-1
Day 1 - Friday, April 22, 2005

Go to www.bigdealoutdoors.com for more details of the event. There are a
very few sponsored places for extreme boaters.

I'm in middle Tennessee, and looking for a used, recreational kayak.
Question; Are there any good online communities for paddlers in middle
TN?
Thanks!

I'm after the syllabuses for the star awards, is there a webpage or similar
that has them listed or will I have to get a book from the BCU?
Charlie.

Hi, All:
There seems to be a dearth of beginner's sites on paddling and things
associated with it...I need to know "rules of the road," technical
stuff about the water like undertows...I'm a newbie looking to paddle

I need contact names ,articles , etc for the whitewater park on bucks
creek. I have a friend who has been approach to do an environmental
study on the maumee river for a new whitewater park (early stages). Thanks.

I am looking at buying my first kayak.  I have been giving the
Wilderness Systems Pamlico 120 some serious thought.
My primary use would be flat lakes and rivers less than class II.
Does any body have a feed back on this model / brand of boat.

Coast Guard outlines river rules
Common actions may draw scrutiny
By Kevin Eigelbach
Post staff reporter

Thinking of buying an old ABS kayak and wondering what I'd be getting into
as far a possible future permanent repairs to cracks, etc. Something a person
can do at home with inexpensive materials?
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Hi, All:
Does anyone have experience with the Sea Eagle PaddleSki 435 (or the
smaller 395, for that matter) around the city?  I'm looking to do the
Manhattan circumnavigation thing, the Liberty Island thing, as well as

i have a jeep cherokee, with which i cartop a 14' royalex mad river
adventurer.  i use the oe bars, with two nylon ratchet straps across the
body of the boat.  the boat itself is supported by foam attachments against
the bars.

Boaters grumble about fees in Ky.
By James Malone
The Courier-Journal
A day out on the lake is more expensive than it was last year.

Interesting story today in the Boulder Daily Camera about the Canadian
health care crisis. Page 4B.
It's by Beth Duff-Brown of the Associated Press.
"A letter from the Moncton Hospital to a New Brunswick heart patient in need