bon creek boat

[stephane huot]

Bonjour,

Je demeure à Prévost Laurentides, je voudrais faire des creek ce printemps , mais il n’y a plus de location chez Atmosphère St-So
depuis un bout et je n’ai pas de creek boat. 5’10” 160lbs, et je veux pas un paquebot,

j’avais essayer le Sniper que j’avais aimé puisque assez court et le diesel également .

Question 1: que me conseillez vous et y’en a t-il des used dans votre cour ?

merci

Stephane

[François Leblanc-Nadeau]

plusieurs vont te recomander le riot magnum. C’est un très bon creeker stable rapide et tourne bien. Il y en a des used qui passent sur le web de temps en temps.

[jean-martin]

steph1 écrit:

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je veux pas un paquebot,

je mesure 6’2” 190# et je pagaye un bateau de 8’6” 80 gallons

tu peux essayer riot magnum, pyrhana karnali, liquid logid el jefe, dagger nomad, wave sport habitat

ils ont tous leur qualités et défauts, àtoi de choisir lui qui conviens à ton style

[Francois]

C’est tous des bon bâteaux, faut que tu trouve celui qui compense pour tes lacunes de pagayeur. Moi j’ai une LL Huck, yé parfait pour les p’tits creek comme ceux des Laurentides. Le magnum est super aussi mais pas mal plus gros (trop à mon avis).

[stephane huot]

merci pour vos réponses je vais resté à l’affû d’un bon deal .

j’espère seulement trouver avant que l’eau soit trop basse…

Bon printemps à tout le monde.

[Marc-Olivier Touchette]

si tu veux un petit creeker il y a aussi le dagger mamba

[eric plouffe]

sur myosis il y a un thunder 76 neuf a 600 a ton poids ca peut faire un bon creek boat moi je utilise le thunder 76 en creek je pese 180 6 pieds et je aime bien

[jean-martin]

voici l’explication de steeve fisher pour la différence entre
le thunder et le magnum ou
le pyranha karnalli et le pyrhana burn ou
le dagger nomad et le dagger mamba ou
wave sport habitat et le wave sport diesel

I got to try the production thunder and of couse it was awesome. That said, I did find that it worked better in deeper water than on shallow slabs – and that is the difference between a river runner and a creek boat:

Why have one when you have the other? Why get a Thunder if I have a Magnum?

Here is the answer: A river runner is a fast, forgiving boat of medium volume with a planning (flat) hull. A creek boat is a high volume, forgiving boat with a displacement (rounder) hull. Why the difference? Well, a creek is a river that has a lot of shallow sections and slabs (less water than rock), as well as the need to boof off the corner of rocks and slabs , thus you’re often actually touching or scraping on the rock below the surface. Here you need a round hull so that you get to choose how the boat leans as you scrape on a shallow slab. If you have a flat hull the slab chooses the lean of the boat – the hull will have an automatic tendancy to sit flat against the rock. Then of course you need as much volume as possible to stay on the surface and pass over under-water obstacles. With a river runner you run deeper, medium or high volume rivers where you rarely touch the bottom. The flat hull helps with stability in side surfs down diagonals, speed and better directional control during ferries and the like where water is passing quickly and diagonally across the hull. The medium volume is just enough to keep you on the surface most of the time but low enough that you can punch through waves and diagonals (surface obstacles) rather than being surfed at their mercy.

So if you choose just one which should you get? You should decide which you run most – deep or shallow rivers. If you run mostly deeper rivers you need the Thunder and then you can still run easy creeks. if you run mostly creeks then you need a magnum and you can still run easy deeper rivers. If you’re serious about running both types of river then you need both types of boat. Add that to your Astro and now you’re and all-round paddler!

Anyway, enough of shamelessly plugging our absolutely awesome line of kayaks. Back to the Fernie photo shoot. If you’re ever passing through Fernie – near Calgary, you can go for a goood paddle anytime in the spring of summer. The scenery there is awesome too. We took a heli flight to the top of oone of the peaks, did some sweet mountainbiking at one of the ski resorts and spent the rest of the time lounging in a hot tub sipping bevy’s and enjoying the view.

You can of course enjoy some of the pics and other good stuff at http://www.hellyhansen.com

[stephane huot]

merci jimb,

ce post est vraiment explicatif , éducatif et me fais reconsidérer mon choix.

steph

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