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Re: wood kayak on billboard in NY
By:gisela
Date: 7/2/2001, 3:31 pm
In Response To: wood kayak on billboard in NY (peter czerpak)

: Just wanted to let anybody passing thru Albany NewYork know that the wood
: kayak and woman on a Sam Adams billboard on I-90 is Clea and the Merganser
: 16 that we finished late last summer. The picture doesn't even have the
: full set of bungies and deck lines that we just recently installed in it
: though.

: The two billboards are on I-90 near Albany, NY - one heading west between
: exit 4 and 5 on the left side of the road and one heading east just as
: I-90 crosses 787 also on the left side of the road.

: Local kayakers were invited to a Sam Adams beer photoshoot this past May to
: Lake George (big touristy lake) for advertizing to be done in some local
: newspapers and magazines - "Metroland" and "Adirondack
: Sports and Fitness". Everyone had plastic rental kayaks except for me
: in my CLC 18 and her in the Merganser. Turns out that both of us made the
: print ads and they ending up liking her and her boat enough that they made
: it to the billboard. By the looks of it, her and the kayak are about 5x
: lifesize on this billboard. You can check out about 3/4 the length of her
: boat and can really see the upswept fore end of the boat. She's paddling
: and smiling and that is readily apparent as well.

: Pretty cool ehh? Anyways, just wanted to let everybody know since its kinda
: neat and it got good exposure for wood kayaks. Too bad we didn't get
: anymore $$$ for having the wood kayak as a "model" too in
: addition to us.

: I'll try and get some pictures posted.

: Pete Czerpak
: albany, NY

Pretty cool, hope to see some of those pictures since I am not going through Albany any time soon. Wish I could, it's beautiful in that part of the country, too. Gisela in Tacoma (the "other" Washington)

Messages In This Thread

wood kayak on billboard in NY
peter czerpak -- 7/2/2001, 1:42 pm
Re: wood kayak on billboard in NY
LeeG -- 7/2/2001, 10:32 pm
Re: wood kayak on billboard in NY
Bill Price -- 7/3/2001, 11:13 am
Re: wood kayak on billboard in NY
LeeG -- 7/3/2001, 11:45 am
Re: Cool thought:
Shawn Baker -- 7/2/2001, 3:32 pm
Re: wood kayak on billboard in NY
gisela -- 7/2/2001, 3:31 pm