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We hadn’t done a Big Boat session in a while so Woody and I decided to make a trip up to the Noli and bring along some newbie long boat paddlers. Whitney has paddled a Pisgah once before, but Yonton hadn’t done the big boat thing before. We knew he would like it but pretty foreign to him.

We all loaded up in Woody’s reliable Buick LeSabre. Four paddlers four Pisgahs. The one thing we remembered a little late was the fact that when you paddle boats that are that long you actually do need a bow line. We drove up I-26 with the middle boats pointing more and more towards the sky. We tried retying but that didn’t help. We looked like the guy with the mattress on his roof trying to hold it on with our hands.

Whitney, Woody, and I have all been paddling long enough that we actually paddled whitewater boats that were nearly this long, but Yonton doesn’t have that much experience in the long boats. So we weren’t sure how that was going to go. We gave him a boat with a rudder figuring if things went really bad he could drop the rudder and guide himself home.

It was a beautiful day out there. January 28th and it was 60 degrees. The water was cold as hell but still and awesome day.
Here is the video. Its a 15mb video so it may take a minute to load.
Big Boatin’ the Noli Video Link, Click This
I will be posting video of the new Foot System and Adjustable Hip Pads later this week.
Shane

I have been blabbing the last few posts about getting the CRs into production at the factory. Now its time to start showing them on the river.
Woody, Rob and I took off the for the Nolichucky the day I got back with the first production CRs. The level was a nice 3500 and it was 50 degrees in January. Can’t beat that.


You all know Woody, but you might not know Rob. He is the brother of our president at Liquidlogic. He just recently moved to Asheville from Rhode Island so he could do some more paddling. Rob has been doing a bunch of creeking down here but hasn’t ever been in a playboat so it was cool to see that the CR 125 was easy to handle for him.
Woody – 6’4″, 240, 34″ inseam, size 12 dogs. CR 250
Rob – 6’1″, 175, 33″ inseam, size 11 feet. CR 125


It was really nice to get in the production boat and know that we put together an awesome boat. The new foot cone and foot foam were super comfy. Hell Woody paddled the whole river barefoot just because he could. He kept saying, “dude my feet are even warm”. The new hip pads are awesome. A screw driver and you can adjust and secure your hip pads completely bomber. No more loose hip pads. They don’t slide, lose air, come unglued, or only sit in one place. I am nearly as excited about the new outfitting as I am about the new boats.


Woody and I will get the final production stats on the CRs up on the web as soon as possible.
Here is the video of the day running the Noli.
Cross Rivers on the Noli Video Link, Click This
Later
Shane

Here is a link to more photos, videos, and words and stats about the CRs.
Cross River Page Link, Click It