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Re: Suitability
By:Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K
Date: 5/19/2016, 3:46 pm
In Response To: Re: Suitability (Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks)

There is really no such thing as a boat suitable for a particular of water body.

Da!

Like whitewater boats?

There are exactly so many different small boat designs because of adaptations to local conditions.

I grew up on Lake St. Clair, upstream of Lake Erie and like Erie, St. Clair is big and shallow.
Any wind creates steep closely grouped waves.

Ever feel like having your teeth pounded out of your head?
Use a flat bottom boat on one of those lakes and see.

Oh ya, it can be done, I know my dad did it.

My dad taught me a lot of things "not to do" in boats!

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Almost finished *PIC*
Marc Donnelly -- 5/15/2016, 5:43 pm
Re: Strip: Almost finished
Bill Hamm -- 5/16/2016, 12:13 am
Re: Strip: Almost finished
Marc Donnelly -- 5/16/2016, 5:29 am
Re: Strip: Almost finished
Bill Hamm -- 5/17/2016, 1:29 am
Re: Strip: Almost finished
Shawn Jones -- 5/17/2016, 6:41 pm
Re: Strip: Almost finished
Marc Donnelly -- 5/18/2016, 11:46 am
Re: Suitability
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 5/18/2016, 1:11 pm
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Marc Donnelly -- 5/18/2016, 5:06 pm
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 5/18/2016, 7:18 pm
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Marc Donnelly -- 5/18/2016, 8:30 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 5/19/2016, 12:48 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 5/19/2016, 3:37 pm
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 5/19/2016, 3:46 pm
Re: Suitability *PIC*
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 5/19/2016, 7:39 pm
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 5/20/2016, 8:05 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 5/20/2016, 10:12 am
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 5/20/2016, 11:55 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 5/20/2016, 3:05 pm
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Thomas Duncan -- 5/21/2016, 8:22 am
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 5/21/2016, 10:44 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 5/21/2016, 11:22 am
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Robert W -- 5/21/2016, 11:09 am
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Dan Thaler -- 5/21/2016, 9:04 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 5/22/2016, 12:30 am
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Bill Hamm -- 5/22/2016, 12:22 am
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Marc Donnelly -- 5/22/2016, 9:33 pm
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scottbaxter -- 5/24/2016, 12:36 am
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Marc Donnelly -- 5/24/2016, 7:48 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 5/24/2016, 8:37 pm
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 5/24/2016, 9:45 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 5/24/2016, 10:10 pm
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scottbaxter -- 5/24/2016, 11:20 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 5/25/2016, 11:39 pm