"Wreck" Boating the Green!

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  • čas přidán 1. 10. 2019
  • When two recreational kayakers abandoned their boats and hiked out above go-left I knew the boats couldn't call that beautiful gorge home and they needed to be paddled out. Eric Bartl and I stepped up to the plate and got-er- done. It wasn't pretty but that was one of the funniest green laps I've had in a long time if not ever. Don't try this. The Green River Narrows is dangerous and should only be attempted by experts with proper equipment.
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Komentáře • 19

  • @retaob
    @retaob Před 4 lety +10

    “Don’t try this , despite the fact that I was arguably smoother in several hard rapids than most people in the latest whitewater boats .” 😆

  • @krucifydministries
    @krucifydministries Před 4 lety +1

    Love the way you held that turtle up like a sandwich!!
    😂🤣😂🤣

  • @TheJDBattle
    @TheJDBattle Před 4 lety +2

    Haha yes!!! I saw that post in the fb group, didn’t think anyone would actually paddle them out! Good stuff!

  • @BrianYoungPhoto
    @BrianYoungPhoto Před 4 lety

    I have one of those Perceptions. It's our floating down the Catawba with your feet in the water with a beer in your hand boat. I am the only whitewater boater in the family, so I still go rec boating quite often. They are surprisingly stable. If you flip... well you obviously know. I am surprised they make a skirt that fits it.
    Your video is making second rounds on the Internets today.

  • @davidfarin697
    @davidfarin697 Před 4 lety +2

    Next episode; "Grumman on the Green"

    • @paulherring8959
      @paulherring8959 Před 6 měsíci

      Or maybe "wrecking" Great Falls at 10ft.🤣🤣🤣

  • @danielcarter5537
    @danielcarter5537 Před 2 lety +1

    I'm disappointed you didn't run the Gorilla! I thought that's what those high-end Wally World "kayaks" were made for🤷 You would of had like a 10% chance of surviving, perhaps unmangled even!

  • @fender8421
    @fender8421 Před 4 lety

    Rapid Transit went way too smooth for that

  • @michaelhill56
    @michaelhill56 Před 4 lety +1

    It's so weird to see you swimming... Bet you haven't swam that much since you first started boating! Good job of cleaning up someone else's mess...

  • @michaelcarter3149
    @michaelcarter3149 Před 4 lety

    I'm really surprised that the Sundolphin didn't explode on the way down! I've known quite a few people that take them just to the hiwassee and end up cracking or getting a huge hole in them!

  • @rtod4
    @rtod4 Před 3 lety

    You should see if you can find an old White Brothers rotomolded kayak.

  • @bp968
    @bp968 Před 4 lety

    I was amazed you were able to roll that boat even once! Was the skirt just blowing out whenever you flipped or was it just so hard to roll you didn't bother and swam it instead?
    Regardless that was some seriously good boating skills to squeeze that junk through the narrows. I'm honestly glad the rec boaters gave up and left them. They would have killed themselves in the narrows.

    • @MichaelFerraroIV
      @MichaelFerraroIV  Před 4 lety +1

      I was pretty much just falling out if I flipped over. No secondary stability

    • @bp968
      @bp968 Před 4 lety +1

      @@MichaelFerraroIV balls of steel to have paddled that through the narrows though. Id have done the whole trip on my face in that boat (and probably ended up stuffed under a rock along the way!).

  • @ronanlanam1127
    @ronanlanam1127 Před 4 lety +2

    sooo many booty beers

  • @cheskybaba4864
    @cheskybaba4864 Před 4 lety

    They probably were coming back for them at some point - how can they get them back? To them someone stole their boats! It's amazing how some folks (the rec kayakers) have no idea what they're getting into. So you guys must have left your boats behind up top as well.

    • @MichaelFerraroIV
      @MichaelFerraroIV  Před 4 lety +5

      chesky baba we hiked from the take out to get them. They apparently said they were not coming back for them either. Gave the sun dolphin away at the takeout and took the perception boat home 🤠

    • @cheskybaba4864
      @cheskybaba4864 Před 4 lety

      @@MichaelFerraroIV That's rather strange they would leave two perfectly good boats - makes you think they probably weren't theirs. Oh well. Made for a good video anyway.

    • @Pimperloli
      @Pimperloli Před 4 lety +2

      @@cheskybaba4864 I'd rather think the sport wasn't theirs ;)