fall 2002 contents Departments
4 River Signals 6 Standing Waves 2002 Freestyle Pre-Worlds; River
Shorties;Dam News; Re-actionary; Sturgeon Falls Park n’ Play; Reviews; River Alchemy.
20 Paddler Profiles Billy Harris & Kate Geis.
24 Heads-UP Ear Ailments > Jon Holmes.
26 Techniques Eddy Turns > Andrew Westwood.
46 Inside Wave Sport Super EZ
Liquid Logic Skip & Pop Dagger GT
52 Gear Bag 54 Watercolours
58 Road Test The Massive 1981 Chevy Vandura Classic
61 2 Cents What is the Spirit of Whitewater?
On the Cover
Hal Monkman on Big Smoothy at Lower NoName, Ottawa River Ontario in his bright red cut to
spud...rolling down the high- way smilin’
photo Scott MacGregor
Features
29 The Aerial Issue Aerial /adj.2 a existing, moving, or happening in the air. b lofty or elevated. Learn to Bounce, Air Blunt, Donkey Flip and Pan Am.
38 To Spud or not to Spud If you live where playboating is popular it seems like an eight-foot boat is long and even a seven-footer measures in above average. Spud boats are the new breed of playboats shedding all extraneous length. Do you need one? Read on and find out.
44 If Noah had been a playboater Forty days and forty nights without having to shuttle would have been swweeet. Instead, Noah pretty much set the design standard for displacement hull boats. Good or Bad? It all depends on your perspective.
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Rapid Magazine Volume 4 Issue 3
photos this page clockwise from top: Scott MacGregor; Scott MacGregor; Rob Faubert
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