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| All boats are available in a
range of 5 different constructions, colours of
your choice and built to your weight. See "Specifications" for
details of the full boat specs. All boats are built to personal spec,
we don't have "off-the-peg" standard sizes, everyone is built to
suit your specific requirements! We
have a
demo of the new ET, Colin paddles the El Sorcho so this can also be
tried out and there are a number of 64's, Yins, Macaos, Locos, Pro Factos and Vuchos in the country. |
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The ET C1
The latest C1 from Tony Estanguet already having gained a Gold and Silver at
the World Champs, this is truly a world beating design
The ET suits paddlers up to
78kgs, until a
smaller version is developed we would recommend the Junior Macao
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The El Sorcho C1
Robin Bells latest creation is the El Sorcho. During the design phase he
tried to keep his idea of a playful boat and to keep the fast reaction of the
canoe to the movement of the paddler. Robin worked mainly on the front
part of the canoe, the rounding of the front part of the hull of the canoe and
lifting up of the nose (by 120 cms) making the EL SORCHO very stable, easily
turnable, just "an easy" canoe.
EL
SORCHO is intended for heavier paddlers above 75 kgs
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The MACAO and JUNIOR MACAO C1
The Macao is a C1 from Tony Estanguet that suits women, junior and those
wanting a stable paddling platform. The design optimises your ability to complete both perfect flat turns
and turning over the tail.
The Macao suits paddlers up to 80kgs (12st 6lbs)and the Junior Macao is
designed specifically for lighter paddlers up to 68kgs (10st 10lbs)
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| The REV C2
The straight line speed on flat water the REV is very fast, but it also reacts
rapidly to a change of the direction. "It hops on waves and jumps over stoppers without any problems."
It is very responsive and turns very well. It was rapidly adopted by the German crew Muller/Muller (European
U23 champions).
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The SL C2
The Slovenian crew Luka BOZIC/Saso TALJAT took the third place at the Worlds in La Seu d'Urgell with the successful canoe VUCKO (designed by Simeon
Hocevar). These top world C2 slalom paddlers and their coach Dejan Testenom liked the basic
characteristics of the VUCKO but they have been working on improvements for
a few months. The SL was named after the first letters of their names Saso and
Luka.
The nose of the new C2 has been slightly lifted and the team also worked on
improving the centre of gravity. The tail has also been modified to reach higher
straight line speeds. The result is
that the SL slides well in waves of whitewater, the acceleration from gates
is excellent and the manoeuvrability is perfect . According to Luka and Saso,
the SL has a really fantastic ability to rapidly change direction on courses
which require fast reactions and fast turning.
Optimal paddlers weight: 100-150 kg
Boat length: 410 cm; width: 70 cm
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Classic Designs
Of course if you want one of the older well loved designs, these are all
still available:
C1s:
The 64
The Yin
iMo
Loco
C2s:
The ProFacto
The Vucko and Vucko XL
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