High performance inflatable kayak. Excellent condition, blue and white. 2005 model. Paddled eight times. New ones are $1400. Asking $1000. 859-351-3444 or ferdunerd@hotmail.com

Fred

What company makes it?

Custom Inflatables

http://www.tseeker.com/

What I like about the design of the thrillseeker overall is that instead of trying to more precisely imitate a kayak, it maximizes the unique advantages of inflatables. Thrillseekers are particularly good for paddling super-steep creeks with very low risk. The boat is very stiff when inflated and has good rocker on both ends. It boofs like crazy and drafts very shallow, always staying close to the surface and allowing it to slide across squirrelly currents with speed and stability. The bottom is flat like a planing hull boat, although the design predates the popularity of planing hulls. Interesting boat to paddle.

Hanley

Another unique aspect of thrillseekers is that you can sit backwards in the thighstraps so that the backrest is against your feet allowing you to use the bow as a sort of hybrid squirt stern. The boat can then be blasted on the face of larger hydraulics and splatted on pillows or even genuinely squirted in bigger eddy lines.

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Sometime get me to show you my video "Kids, don't try this at home". It's a bunch of steep creek freaks from WV showing off the thrillseeker on the Russell Fork Gorge.

Hanley

Hanley:

That is funny - I haven't even thought of that video in over a decade or so. Folks, for those that don't know, Hanley was one of the first and was the primary videographer of the early Russell Fork River Rendezvous Class V race that the BWA sponsored in the mid 90's. I have several of those clips and can still see in my mind Hanley making copies in a frenzy up where he was camped, close to the front of the stage at the old Haysi Fairground locations. Remember that Hanley?

Brent

I do. I never had as much luck selling tapes on the Russell Fork as I did at the Moose, but it subsidized my footage-gathering expeditions. At the time I was just shooting general footage from rapid to rapid of private boaters and selling the raw, unedited tape. As I remember, the frenzy I was having had more to do with my inability to run my three VCR stack, Television and camera off of one AC inverter plugged into the cigarette lighter of my Toyota.

Maybe we should have an "ancient archives" party one of these days where anyone who can legitimately fart dust gets to bring out one nostalgic video they shot. Could be a very interesting party.

Hanley

PS: Do you remember the ducky massacre at the end of that video where the one guy is stuck surfing in Jaws and he keeps getting tossed out and climbing back in?