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[Secret Weapon]

Hey slutty Paddleboy you haven't answered my ???? Which colour gemini's has your team deemed slow?

[paddleboy]

 I can't tell you that !........sorry

[Secret Weapon]

Excuse me?  What's the big secret?  I'll just assume whatever boat you end up on it the slow boat because you'll use that as your excuse on why your team didn't win.  Oh wait... you don't actually have a team do you?  Paddlewhore!  Hopefully this year a certain team won't try to switch numbers on boats before a race because they want what they feel is the fast boat.  I know Alcan officials are watching for that this year.

[paddleboy]

  . Nope I won't be useing any excuses .....

 For the record ....I do belong to a team thats heading to the worlds but I am also racing with another team thats going as well ....does that make sense 

 Alcan really is not the goal of either team and its ...mmmm... lets say practice for what they really want to accomplish

[Luke]

If you really wished for changes, roll up your sleeves and organize a committee and fundraise to buy more Buks,  instead of bitching about it on the internet.  Personally I think the retros are fine.   I would have thought an excellent paddler of your caliber would be able to ignor these petty obstacles.  Heck I've never heard the Hamber juniors complain.

None of the boats on the creek are perfect, the wood 6 16s are water logged with cracked seats, the buks' bow wake is too big, and too sensitive, the millennium is unstable.

If you're having trouble sitting on the boat, your ass is too buff.

No offense, really.




Btw, does anyone know why the current Buks at FCRCC say canoekayak BC on them?  What happened to the original Buks with the buk logo?  Did Burnaby trade our precious Buks?

[Colossus]

maybe their technique is different, and doesn't cause their hips/legs to mash into and against the rain throughout the entire stroke?  not being an ass (for once?), just pointing things out.  i know that i have a permanent bruise on both my hip and the outside of my knee on my outside leg ever since starting to paddle those things during practices.  they're not totally unbearable for a simple 500m race, but an entire practice, doing race piece after race piece, going 100% over and over again, my outside is raw and brown/purple.  in my case, its not a matter of my ass being too buff...  in fact i think a buffer ass would be better, cause my scrawny behind is sore as heck from my hips constantly rubbing against the rail/butt check sliding inwards as the rail makes my slide away from the gunnel.

from all the seats i've sat in in the BUKs (6 up through 2) for practices, i'd say those boats are as perfect as my non-boatmaking self could get them.  wake is too big?  lift your paddle higher out of the water.

[rightarm]

quit dissing the millenium boats, the foot braces alone make those things the shiznat!

[seaboy]

  lol....it was the old guys model ,lol but hold onto your paddles cause  paddleboy will be in a very fast one for Alcan ...

Damn, I guess you got stuck in the slow one again!

[paddleboy]

 I was in both fast ones and slow ones...lol .Actually as you can see my FCRCC team rocked !! and my Roli team did awesome as well .Roli posted some pretty fast times this weekend and thats a great thing to see as we head to the club crews .If Roli continues down this path I see good things happening in TO .

 The slow gemini for those that wanted to know was a blue w/ yellow pattern ( there are a few that colour) but 1 in paticular that is much slower then the rest .

 Guess which color Roli was in in the A final.....lol  ...oh well they still did very very well and we won't blame the boat as we are very satisfied with the result .For a senior team ( 40+) to stay with premier mixed teams and even turn faster times than some is awesome ....G0 Roli GO !!

[DBWTim]

Heard that they were retrofitting the Gemini's again... So I went down to DragonZone and sure enough.. looks like there's two of them sporting the new "renovations".

As you can see from the photos it looks like they've removed the bars now. I hope that they'll sand down the inside of the gunwales so that they're flush since those protrusions look like they could lead to some accidental scrapes and scratches.



Any teams paddling out of DragonZone take one of these out yet and want to share how it felt?

I also consolidated all the previous discussions on the Gemini boats in this thread just so everyone can see what has been discussed before. Can't believe it's been 6 years since we were introduced to these things...

[mandachan]

Any teams paddling out of DragonZone take one of these out yet and want to share how it felt?

Greg & Friends have been doing an awesome job with these things. My team tried it out a couple of weeks ago. It gives the paddlers a bit more wiggle room for leg drive and rotation. The 1st seat is definitely more comfortable than before.

The middle seats (4-7) may bend if there are a couple heavier guys on it. This will tilt their hips toward the middle, possibly throwing off their linear movement. Nothing huge while paddling 80%, but it doesn't feel stiff during Power10s (thus being shock-absorbing so to speak... ) However, not every paddler feels the same way. In fact some people didn't even notice we were on a modified Gem.

Anyway, the general consensus is that the change is a good thing.

And wow, looking back on these messages from 2004...how everyone was excited to introduce these gems.

[Mike]

BuKs all day everyday!!!

[shuynh28]

Woohoo, no more bars! I always hated those things.

[NFW]

BuKs all day everyday!!!

Amen!!

[mandachan]

FCRCC will soon have their very own modified boat too!