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At The OverThruster |
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Thanks to Ed Roper for setting us up with the overthruster. By Ken Pitta |
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first time I saw this thing, I was thinking, not another one of those
funny boating gimmicks! But I should have known, coming from IR, that
there was no way it was going to be a gimmick. |
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| The playboats these days are changing at such a rapid pace. Different sizes, different volume placement to perform different tricks. Different hull designs to increase speed or decrease speed. It all depends on the designer and the shaper. Then hopefully the mold makers can do thier job and every thing will turn out like it was drawn. Then you buy the boat, and you're a little heavy for it. You can't flat water loop it and it is really hard to loop in a hole. For the people in the 185lb range this is a common problem. The boats are either too small or too huge. Volume placement plays a big part when you're trying to learn loops and when you're trying to get the most air out of your loops. | |||||||||||||
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IR sent us the overthruster and I received it on the day I was leaving to the Wenatchee river in central Washington. I was in such a hurry to get on the river, I didn't even take it out of the bag. All the awesome play was in and I didn't want to miss a second of it. Rodeo hole was kick'n and Drunkards was really going off. We pulled into the eddy at Drunkards wave, headed out on the wave and started catching some huge air. My buddy Scott weighs about 220lb and paddles a kingpin 6.3. He was throwing some nice air blunts, but about 1 out of every 6 his skirt would blow and I would have to drag him and his boat to shore.(Not a small feat.) We went back to camp, put the overthruster on his boat and the problem was solved. It's not like he had a crappy skirt, it is one of the top of the line. I think the new cockpits on all the new boats are so huge and drunkards is a really fast wave. If you land wrong or upside down there is a good chance your skirt is going to blow. Not with the IR overthruster. For the past two years going to the skook meant taking a small beach ball and putting it on your lap if you are going to throw donkey flips or helix's. You don't want your skirt popping at the skook. It's a really long swim to shore!! |
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| So I finally got the overthruster back from my buddy Scott (three weeks later) and I thought I would try it out. To put it on your boat, all you need to do is drill one little hole in the top layer of your cockpit ring, put the rivet on the overthruster in the hole, pull your skirt over it and your done. Once I was in I wanted to see how easy it was to get out, so I pulled my skirt and pulled my knees out and the thing popped right out and went floating off. | |||||||||||||
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See you on the wave |
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