Blue Hole Sunburst

[Deuce]

Time for the Sunburst to get a new home. I've paddled and enjoyed it for a while and now feel I'm ready to try another solo boat. Dave Reid found it in a barn, paddled it once (I think) and sold it to Doug Webber who paddled it once and sold it to me. I hung a seat in it (came with a minicell pedestal that had come out) and added Mike Yee knee cups and thigh straps. I've taken it down the Caddo, Mulberry, Ouachita and Buffalo to name a few and it's always treated me right. Heavy as sin and comes with 48 inch bags. It can be yours for $450 which is a little less than I have in it. Gots pics if you want em.

[torpedo]

Interested. Please send pics. Check PM.

Thanks,

Toby

[okieboater]

Glad to know that ole warhorse of a canoe is still getting folks down river.

It is an old design now but in it's day it got the job done and still does.

My first encounter with a Sunburst came on the Royal Gorge run of the ARK in CO.

4 of us okies heard about the Gorge and found the put in and take out. We had a long weekend in CO and decided to run the Gorge on the way out.

It was a sunday afternoon and no one at the put in. What the hay, we unloaded. A guy pulled up with a sunburst on his pickup truck. You guys gonna run the Gorge he asked. You bet we answered. Have you ever run the Gorge. Nope just know it is a good run. Well he said, it is my local run. It is kicking today, I can tell you the lines he said. Great.

So we kayakers drift under the bridge with the canoe in the lead and 4 blissfully unaware flat landers following like ducks.

He eddied out around the bend and we scouted the fist big rapid from river right. Our eyes got real big. Some one commented that if this was the first rapid it was gonna be a long day for us. Canoe man allowed he would go first and show us the line. Perfect run and he eddied out at the bottom and waved us down.

We kind of looked at each other, grinned and waited for a volunteer to go first. We finally got our courage up and made the run.

That was the same drill at all the big rapids, Sunburst Man told us the line, demo'ed that line and we followed him best we could.

By the time we hit the take out, us Okies were beat to near death, proud that we had survived the run and I knew that one day I would own a Sunburst.

Made that Gorge run many times since then in my kayak or a Super Puma. Loved every run I have been blessed to make, thought of that Sunburst Canoe on or after the run as well.

Took a long time to find a Sunburst for sale, but I did and enjoyed it a bunch. Unfortunately for the Sunburst, I now have a Rendezvous. Not the history of a Sunburst but much lighter for a beat up creeker like I now am to load and unload.

Good luck to the Sunburst and whom ever ends up with it. Lots of river miles left in that boat.

[Roger]

Big boats make life easy in big water.

[arkbill]

If you still have it, call 501-3524209.

Thanks, Bill

[Deuce]

The Sunburst has a new home. A gentleman in Greenbriar was thrilled to take it back to his house. He plans to put his son in it which I think is a great plan. Now I just need someone going east this weekend to bring back my Impulse.

[okieboater]

Great News, as mentioned before, I am glad that old warhorse is back in the race!

[Deuce]

He was very happy to get it, Mr. Dave. He lives on the Cadron and had a Blue Hole stolen years ago. I think he and his son will really enjoy it. Next best thing to keeping it in the ACC which would have happened had I not jumped the gun a little. Thankfully the aggrieved party is a good sport.