End of the trip. People always see the and assume we must have to be really gentle with these boats, but Liz plugged a class 3 hole with this one and and when I got back to the boat it was wrapped around a boulder, facing upstream. Literally curled around the rock, and not a single break in the frame. That was the point of this test paddle: take overloaded boats into rough conditions, drag them over rocky bars loaded with gear, through waves and wind, and see how we could push them. Learned a lot, but in general I’m very happy with how they performed. Still working on the full video performance report, up on the channel soon!
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