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I spend so much of my time thinking about boats these days I need a place to get my thoughts out and I suspect I'm not the only one so welcome to the River Rat Thread!
I was thinking about getting a small one so I could do nose/tail butters down the river this summer. Ive never done real river kayaking but it looks fun. Im not too intrested in doing the stressful bits though. More so just buttering along a nice calm shady river, having a bit of weed and maybe a spot of plunder. They want an arm for a little boat though.
I was about a hour from making this thread. Put money down a sweet old 16’ Maravia raft and picking er up after school in May, having a hell of a time waiting for this shit.
**This post was edited on Apr 7th 2025 at 8:40:05pm
realassboatI was about a hour from making this thread. Put money down a sweet old 16’ Maravia raft and picking er up after school in May, having a hell of a time waiting for this shit.
**This post was edited on Apr 7th 2025 at 8:40:05pm
Lenny-I was thinking about getting a small one so I could do nose/tail butters down the river this summer. Ive never done real river kayaking but it looks fun. Im not too intrested in doing the stressful bits though. More so just buttering along a nice calm shady river, having a bit of weed and maybe a spot of plunder. They want an arm for a little boat though.
Possibly donkey brained. Is it that dangerous to butter a little boat around Colorado? I would get a proper kit for it and Ive kayaked in the ocean a lot. Always thought it would be way more fun to be able to flip around more freely and butter.
river kayaking is genuinely the scariest i have ever done i hated it so much lol and i didnt even do any rapids or anything. they are so tippy and i could not figure out how to flip and mega panicked whenever i slowly tipped over. im pretty sure the boat was trying to drown me. 10/10 the worst extreme sport i have tried. but i can see why people like it
Lenny-Possibly donkey brained. Is it that dangerous to butter a little boat around Colorado? I would get a proper kit for it and Ive kayaked in the ocean a lot. Always thought it would be way more fun to be able to flip around more freely and butter.
If you ask a hundred different people you will get a hundred different answers but I would say that playboats are not necessarily the most forgiving and if you just want calm fun maybe a little bigger boat would be advisable. In my experience play boats have a steep learning curve. I'm not saying go get a giant creeker but just like something with a little more in the stern might be nice
some riv stoke from last spring; the crew and I are officially booked for a paddle trip to the NW Territories this summer, 12 days on water, should be pretty rad
je_t.aime_canard"platinum blondes with lip filler"
how can i get into this river ratting thing asap, can i just take an inflatable donut down the whitewater?
yea dude those $1.29 discount tubes from Walmart absolutely rip, just read and run!
related: drinking white wine on a river can be fun, we sometimes bring the big bags of wine and toss 'em between boats like we're slingin' salmon at the seattle fish market
