... credit: 'Gnarlz Outdoors'...
... that was cool - view in full screen for best effect...
... personally haven't paddled canoes (and that means whitewater) much (if at all), since around 2010 - picked up a few SUP's and have mainly been playin' around on those things since then - but after having viewed much of the performance of those new (shortboat) designs (powered by some pretty impressive paddling ability), we're about a gnats hair away from pickin' one up... we'll think about it some more...
... did pick up this 'Mohawk Maxim' (Royalex boat) back then - think about 8'10" length (may be wrong and don't feel like running out back to measure it) - other than some Class II and some small surfing waves, haven't spent a whole lot of time mastering it - some hard edges on this thing and not a whole lot of primary stability - good secondary stability, but spent so much time low bracing and cross stroking this thing until finally re-injuring a rotator cuff on the left shoulder - it's been back up on the shelf since then...
... from the archives..
... a young rookie 'Strongman Matt' - Lower Yough River around '92...
... around '04...
... around '04 again...
... turned into a pretty competent Class IV open boater...
... don't recall the rapid here...
... gotta' love canoes - they're even cool lookin'...
...we've played around with decked kayaks a bit, but we'll stick with open boats - could never figure out why someone would want to spend only half their time outdoors...
... plus it's scientific fact...
... "not all badass's paddle a canoe... but all canoeists are badass"...
- Albert Einstein
