Boat Forum / Paddle Boats / November 2009

The recent wave of attention here, with the familiar names (can I say
faces? :-) ) brough back many memories. Not just of the life on this
newsgroup at its heighday, with so many people of all different walks of
life and different interests as well as from different corners of ...

The weather forecast for this Friday's Turkey Float is chance of snow
showers.  (sigh)  'Tis the season, but snow is always preferred over
rain.  Wish they had warm snow, now that would be awesome...
Everyone have a safe holiday!

Ok, so who here is actually a visible paddler on a Youtube video?

OK, so who's here? New, old, lurkers....expose yourselves. Lets see
how many people check in here these days.
I'll go first....I'm here. :-)
--riverman

My good friend Ken Alcorn passed away yesterday 11/7/2009.
I am mourning his loss. I wish nothing more right now than that I
could bring him a cold frosty beer and sit with him in front of a
roaring warm campfire.

We all know that sailboats are sorta "tippy" and this is very
dangerous.  SO, I have invented "sponsons" for them.  They would be
used on either side of the main hull held out by rigid beams.  Using
my sponsons, the entire boat could be lightweight because it would not

Everyone!
Please read the following response from ISP.com about Tim's postings:
"Thank you for including such detail, we have disabled his account
causing him to call in and will deal with him when he does call in.

Timmy "Sponson Boy" posts from his isp.com account, which has the
following on their website as their Terms Of Service, or TOS:
RESTRICTIONS OF USE:
User understands that the following restrictions are applied to the

Carry on RBPers!

John Kuthe...

I took my sit-on-top kayak and put it in my back pond and paddled a
good 100 yds (that's several kilometers in metric) through the
duckweed and algae.  It isn't Wilko sized but at least it is a trip
report, of sorts.

Its a bit embarassing to post this, but some friends have asked me to
arrange a private Deso/Gray trip for this summer if possible. Once
upon a time, I would instantly know outfitters, shuttle drivers, gear
whores, cooks, etc for pretty much any stretch of river in the

I've spent many a fine time in my kayak with a touring sprayskirt and
a hooded rain top and stayed completely dry.  The rain often
discourages any other boaters.  Often just a stiff breeze is all that
is needed to blow all the canoeists over to one side, but rain

Bill Tuthill from the Pacific Northwest, if I remember correctly (I
threw away the mag after reading it, so I cannot now doublecheck).
The nicely illustrated story was of him and his buddy duckying the
Yampa and another desert stream (maybe the Delores?) in the Rocky

C'mon folks! RBP is what we make of it!
I've taken a hiatus from paddling while I'm (still) going to nursing
school, what's everyone else up to?
John Kuthe...