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Here is video I made demonstrating why I use it and what it is! th-cam.com/video/pLDjGGbsFYc/w-d-xo.html Since a lot of people r1 the Gauley that is the only thing that people wanted to know about or to scoff about really. It was a good conversation starter for those that wanted to talk to me since I am quite the loner. It is for when the boat tips upside down...if you can imagine that...most of the boat will be out of the water or teeter tottered and so all I have to do is grab the drainholes and pull down. The one on the back is overkill and doesn't work that great anyway but it protects the gopro. Tomorrow I will be at the Charlotte Whitewater Center and I will mount my camera to the front thwart(but it will be the back thwart) and then have two of them...or just one because I have found that even just one of these thwarts sticking up near the front of the boat will cause the boat to teeter totter and make reflips way easy. I am looking forward to getting back to Montana and making videos on these concepts because I almost think it should be standard practice to have a air bulk head (attachable and removable) on the front of any raft. It essentially turns it into a "Creature Craft" its not self righting but even when getting thrown around upside down in a hole it may re-right itself which makes swimming after and re-entry way easier!

Here is video demo for the front orange thwart! th-cam.com/video/Lhzxx2EOR_4/w-d-xo.html

Here is my phone number 406 459 1379. I am heading to NC to the whitewater center. I am done solo boating on the gauley because of the risk. But if you ate inviting me down a run of yours I could be interested. But I am still tentative because my mental health isn't 100 percent right now. So let's talk!

Gauley 2024 if all goes well!

@@r1-ing looking forward to it! Stay safe out there and have fun! Hell yeah

I like 60 inches just because that is the length of most customer carlisle standard paddles. Those are used for 14 foot boats with 20 inch tubes and most r1 boats have smaller tubes so you get more affective length with 60 inch paddle. I have seen some people just prefer longer 63 inch paddles. They are I think taller individuals around 6'2". R1 rafting is hard on the shoulder because the boat is heavy and there is a tendency to want to take full strength strokes. Because of that I would like to experiment with shorter paddles. Dragon boat racing paddles are way shorter than 60 inches. Maybe 52 to 54 inches. I was watching Olympics and solo kayak with single bladed paddles had strokes that were way over the top of the head. I mainly have always like the carlisle standard or outfitter paddle because it is easy to scull and pry for the r1 stroke. I have switched to Warner Bandit and at first it was way squirrelly but now I have been able to paddle it with out it wanting to slice and enjoy the extra performance from a lightweight strong fiberglass paddle.

It is an older NRS urethane High 5. It has lots of rocker so its easy to paddle but sadly discontinued

th-cam.com/video/d574Y80kBdA/w-d-xo.html HERE IS A DIRECT LINK! HOPE THAT WORKS

@@r1-ing error is on the google drive links, can I get the info please, I have a trip in Sept and would love to have this

Now that I have practices my offside paddling I do. The main reason is that sitting on only on the Left side for me makes it really difficult to move to the Right without being low sided. A kayaker will move surfers Left to Right across a wave by leaning right and ruddering with the right paddle. If instead in a kayak you leaned left and tried to sweep your left paddle the kayaker would probably tip over. So to get used to paddling on my offside I would try to sit more centered in my boat and still try to use my left paddle to forward stroke and sweep the boat right. Kayakers are easily able to do this. They can lean right and still paddle on the left side. As an R1 sitting centered is about the best we can do. I am still not able to move left to right on my offside sitting on top of the wave on the right side of my boat and have good control to bring the boat back around and center it back up. That is difficult for me.

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Surfers on surf boards can surf a glassy wave because surfboards are fast and aerodynamic. They have very little drag. So the weight of the surfer and board down the wave will keep them in it. But for R1 there is a lot of drag on the boat that will pull the boat over the glassy wave. Every molecule of water underneath the boat is shearing against the boat and pulling it downstream. But any presence of whitewater at the top of a wave is the start of a pile but more importantly it indicates that the water underneath that white is either stationary (not moving downstream) or is actually moving down the wave. This water meets the incoming glassy water in an explosive collision where you see whitewater. But the take home point is that under that whitewater is water that is actually moving upstream and is gripping the boat and shearing and trying to "pull" it upstream. So a good analogy would be a glassy wave is a constant speed treadmill more or less. And a breaking wave is two treadmills that are opposing each other. But the take home point. Is that for small breaking waves. It is not necessarily the the white pile that is doing the stopping of the boat. I would say that it is the grippy water that is moving upstream that stops the boats momentum so quickly. Thinking about it. Even for massive wave holes that have a huge white pile. That is just an indication that behind that curtain of white is literally a downward waterfall. So when boating into that is going to bring the boat to a dead stop. Or when trying to paddle over a sticky hole would be like paddling up and over a vertical treadmill going the opposite direction. Thanks for the comment. I like thinking of this stuff! Especially when encountering small holes. I always think, "That doesn't look like much." and then get instantly flipped and am left wondering why?

It is a 10 foot NRS urethane boat but they discontinued it. It was the Osprey & Revolution series Urethane boats circa 2012

You will be good to go! This TH-camr does nothing but R1-ing in 9.5 Saturn. It doesn't have much rocker. But I flip all the time because my boat has too much rocker. So it is probably a great stable boat! If I ever saw one come up on craigslist I would buy one for myself! Have Fun!!

HELL YEAH!