The Paddler Autumn/Fall issue 2017

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ThePADDLER 148 Photo: Jacob Seigel In theory, and for many people, the short boat revolution was a fantastic one. But as Winston Churchill so deftly said, “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
Now I’m hardly going to be that guy that sits here and tells you that paddling sixfoot freestyle kayaks isn’t a load of fun. I was one of the main protagonists of the short boat and planing hull revolution, and this revolution happened because the short planing hulled boats opened up more and more possibilities in certain kinds of river features. Photo: Pat Keller In fact, if you have ‘that perfect feature’ on your run, it’s pretty hard to beat the fun times that even average paddlers can have. But therein lies the catch: ‘perfect feature’! This does not have to mean a large ‘Lachines waves’ or ‘rock Island’ style holes. It could be the perfectly formed little loop-hole at the artificial slalom course, or an exciting little wave hole on an otherwise uninteresting river run. In theory, and for many people, the short boat revolution was a fantastic one. But as Winston Churchill so deftly said, “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” And the results have been trickling in over the last decade. Freestyle kayaks I’ve already touched on the problem. Freestyle kayaks are a whole lot of fun in that perfect feature. But that pretty much leaves the rest of the river run as a battle to overcome constant verticality, missing dozens of on-the-fly one hit waves, and essentially just flip-flopping down the main current in what amounts to sitting in a plastic turd (unless you’re on that perfect feature). And so, paddlers grab their other boat; the creeker. We find ourselves in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, asking, “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” The answer, as Cat so eloquently states, “Depends a good deal on where you want to get to.” This is why people are paddling their creek boats on easy class 3 runs, and there has been a recent scurry to buy up older longer pre-2000 playboats out of ex-paddlers back yards: Craigslist has become the treasure trove of modern long boater. ThePADDLER 149
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