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All Tricked Out T U R N I N G Y O U R C A N O E I N T O T H E U L T I M A T E W H I T E WA T E R T R I P P E R PHOTOS BY SCOTT MACGREGOR
WHITEWATER TRIPPING with a canoe that hasn’t been outfitted is like trying to hang with the boys on the San Antonio strip in a Honda Civic that hasn’t been tricked out with a custom paint job, hydraulic suspension, chrome wheels, oversized exhaust pipes, velvet upholstery and a trunk full of speakers. Creating the floating equivalent of a low-riding, hot-rod roadster means adding end
bags, knee pads, thigh straps, grab loops and a deck bungee to your whitewater hull. Doing so will immediately improve your performance and increase the safety of you
and your canoe. And once you start customizing you’ll get all sorts of ideas to make your canoe the ultimate river tripper. It’s a process that has no end, but you have to start somewhere, and here’s where.
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