G'day Chuck,
We just got back from 2 magical days camping and paddling there. Uploading images now and will post a trip report on Oldsparky soon. We took my Sas and Southwind and while never designed as white water boats they handled the small but technical rapids well enough.
John has taught me much about single blade paddling.
I am doing a few running repairs to my Sas at the moment, but I have a prototye set of Matt's canoe plans for a boat that I think will be much more suited to these conditions. A little shorter, similar beam and a little more rocker with bottom panels that lend them self to a significantly heavier build. Gonna make this one bullet proof (or at least pretty rock proof

) I think I will be spending a LOT more time on this river.
