Mr. asparagus boat and I are having a few relationship difficulties. When I strap it to my car it creaks and protests as the hull bends slightly. By the time I take off the river, it has taken on a few cups of water.
Mainly, it needs a new deck. Oh, and a new hull.
The seam between them is actually the real offender. It looks repairable -- but the hull is also covered in small cracks. It has been patched and repatched and slathered in excessive amounts of epoxy – I don't think one more layer would fix it. It needs to be sanded way down, then patched everywhere and re-epoxied. And I'm not sure I have it in me to spend so much time on a boat I hope to outgrow in a couple of months.
So it’s duct tape for now.
But I do love this boat! It is my first slalom boat and my daily companion on the Meramec. Way lighter than anything I've paddled before. But I can't help wondering... What’s it going to take to get me in a used short C1 this fall? Does such a thing exist yet?
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I'm working on the short boat thing. It may take until the fall, but I am working on it.
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