Some Quality Innovation for 2007!
Fresh from Salt Lake City and the 2006 Outdoor Retailer Show, we are fired up about the line up for 2007!! STARTING WITH: Wave Sport's New Creek Boat THE HABITAT :After 10 great years of creeking in the Wave Sport Y, we are fired up about the new creek boat: the...
The Key to Retentive Surfing
First you must read the hole to see if it is directional or symmetrical. Directional holes are set at an angle to the current. In directional holes the whitewater and greenwater suggest that you do moves directionallyóeither to the right or left. In a symmetrical...
New Blog Postings to Look For!
We have all the best intentions to keep everyone up-to-date with our new blog site...but then it was July and we were on the river and there was not time to catch up. So here are some postings coming at you soon: Kids Camp 2006: write up and great pictures of our...
When to Scout – by Steve Augustine with Matt, Jimmy, Craig and Juliet contributing
It is quite possible that this is on of the most important decisions a boater faces on the river. When, where, for how long? These and others are the dilemmas one is challenged with in an uncertain and dynamic environment like the incredible whitewater rivers we...
Sometimes a Change is Good!
I ve been paddling with the same type of paddle since 1987! Back then I sold my Norse paddle and bought a Silvercreek Paddle and Silvercreek has been my kayak paddle ever since. Beautiful wooden paddles. While the concept was the same, they did evolve over time, i.e....
Miguel Comes to North Carolina!
One of the fondest memories paddlers have after a week in Costa Rica with us is the time they spent with our driver, Miguel. We have been working together for sixteen years. He is as important a guide on the road as we are on the river. He has helped us with...
Video Boating/Nantahala Open DVD
Back in the late nineties I gave up being a video boater. Video boating sounds more glamorous than it really is. There is something about having to paddle downstream by yourself, jump out in squirrley eddies, and perch yourself on slippery rocks that is not so...
Raise a toast to water on the Upper Ocoee!!
 You are hearing the âchink chinkâ? of paddles being raised in a toast this evening. The toast is in honor of the agreement reached by the Ocoee River Outfitters, the Ocoee Economic Development Group and the TVA to allow for recreational releases on the Upper...
French Broad River Fest
If I had scrounged through my âclothes from the pastâ? drawer, I could have pulled out numerous outfits that would have been quite in fashion Saturday at the French Broad River Festival! Okay, so maybe everything was not like the hippy festivals of the...
The Face Lift Almost Complete!
It started last fall when we took a chainsaw/sledgehammer combination to the upstairs wall and opened up the meeting room with a ten by five window. Once open, it was unanimous that the meeting room needed to be the boat room, the previous boat display area the...