The Paddler Autumn/Fall issue 2017

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<strong>The</strong>PADDLER 152 While I could, now well past the peak of my paddling career, go to the Lachines in my 14lbs ultra explosive, air grabbing six-foot Super Sic and go bigger and do more than I ever could in the past - after about two weeks I’d once more lost interest; and I live at the greatest playboating spot in the world. For me, throwing an endless series of aerial moves was like Jenim Dibie’s Calligraphy of God, “This empty shell holds nothing but the echoes of what was.” Once I had my 303 prototype, I barely paddled anything else at the Lachines, (and consequently sold the Super Sic) surfing a half dozen waves, and squirting countless eddies and boils, between the put-in and the infamous Big Joe wave. Once at the main play spot, I was able to effortlessly jump from one wave to another, and back, while others spend half their session attaining back up the eddies. But even on my 30m3/s (900cfs) local class 3 play run, I have more fun with my long scything blade of a kayak than in anything else; squirting, splatting, cartwheeling and surfing every micro feature I can find, racing from eddy to eddy making imaginary slalom moves, only to break up this set of invisible gates to pause for a giant stalled stern squirt. Inevitability In hindsight, the return of long boating was a foreseeable inevitability. Just look at surfing, where long boarding has had a remarkable resurgence in popularity in the last decade, and surf paddle boarding arrived with an explosion, taking the ease and enjoyment of long boarding to an entirely new level (the surfing equivalent of putting a planing hull on an old school long kayak). If you’re old and broken, like I am, these new long boats are really opening up doors to a new way of paddling the old way, and if you only learned to paddle after the short boat revolution, they’re bringing to you new ways of exploring your same rivers, making paddling them new and refreshing again. I believe Suanne Laquer must have been referring inadvertently to the return of long boating when she proclaimed, “You’re the best thing to ever happen to me twice.”
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