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All Blog Posts Tagged 'Dory' (6)

Standing water areas

I own a 18' white water dory that was built by River Wood Expedition. I purchased it from a commercial river company because it was in pretty bad shape and they pretty much wrote it off. It is now just used for my family purposes. I have repaired a large hole in the bottom of it and I have done alot of cosmetic work using epoxy and fillers. However, I've been having some trouble with the foot wells because of the standing water and high traffice. The original stuff was really durable almost… Continue

Added by Bryan Torgerson on July 22, 2011 at 3:14pm — 3 Comments

Boat Surgery: 205 Mile Rapid

I've had a blast tearing apart the damaged areas of the boat. Looking at the shattered wood, figurin' and fussing. Here are some pics of the process.

Round one of peeling out the damaged wood. The hit was about 1/4 inch in front of the sternmost thwart. Good thing too! Otherwise this would be a picture of…

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Added by Ukulady on February 7, 2011 at 5:20pm — 11 Comments

Down the Grand Canyon

Sept 28 - Oct 15 2010

We ran on constant 8,000 until the rain came and pumped it up to 11k. It was really cool to see the river running red.

The Zizumara was perfect for the Grand. It tracks well in the big water, doesn't get surfed easily and even stays upright when going sideways though Hermit!

Crystal gave her a high impact test. I ran her into the left wall but luckily hit where a thwart met the hull. Came away…

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Added by Ukulady on October 27, 2010 at 10:31pm — 12 Comments

Maiden Voyage

Well, the Zizumara got her first taste of the river. We ran the Lower Salmon River in Idaho on 15k...a very fun level! She got her first ding and had to be highsided through Wright Way rapid but still got us safely downstream and back to shore. Such a happy feeling.

The full blog post is at http://kellyneu.blogspot.com/…