Topic: champlain photos, 15 years ago.......

[ChristianG]

Priceless! I learnt on a Perception Pirouette Super Sport. 9' long, barely wider than my butt. Zero initial stability, and infinite secondary stability. In other words, paddling the boat wasn't unlike spinning a log... The  outfitting was also quite the torture device... I remember running the Jacques-Cartier Pont-Rouge section. I must have rolled 50 times, swam 5 times. And it's a class II-III run. A couple weeks later I got myself a Riot Booster, what a difference. But still not quite comfortable enough, I am much happier in my Jackson. --C.

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[JohnN]

Yep, I still wear that shirt sometimes. It fits me, but the paddling pants seem a bit tighter, guess they must have shrunk over the years.....

The first picture features the oh so rad Perception Pirouette S, introduced in 1993.  11', 63 gal.  Perception still has archived catalogs - they advertised it as "designed for super surf and serious airtime".  I think they meant pirouette move airtime, not donkey flip airtime...


Who the hell are all those people anyway?

[Mark.D.]

 The wave has definetly changed ,  no longer is the great pocket wave/hole that you can see in the second photo next to the eddie , I remember seeing the first big cartwheels , Nigel, in a perception whip-it , 

 John , your still wearing that purple shirt 

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