During my hike on the Camino I kept seeing beautiful, pristine rivers, on which a boot look but never did. My mind's eye left me for days to paddle along these rivers. Only from time to time, a small town with a pilgrim bridge, then again for a while, nothing more. About the lack of infrastructure for water sports, I did not worry. For these situations there is of kayaks, including folding canoe! And then the idea was born to exchange upon arrival in Wiesbaden, the large, rigid, severe family opposition to a Canadian Ally. 09.06.2010 I had arrived back home and I felt immediately drawn to the search for a suitable boat.
Nine days searching and missed a couple of super deals later I edited my courage and wrote to Guido Steinhart Rösrath. It was less my belief that the offer was the super-bargain, rather than the knowledge, get the better boats to be first again in the winter would be. Sun took me a little of the tour while about 16.5 Ally used the new price. But I also received a spray skirt and additional seats plus the huge bag with it. On the evening of the same day I arrived with a large green package in the car at home. Although still plagued me the bad conscience, certainly not easy because of the expenditure to be covered in this boat. But my fantasy I have painted the most beautiful pictures of trips, as I could not do before.
Before the first trip but was once the assembly of the boat. I studied the manual construction of Marmot and began to roll in my bedroom, the hull and sew together the poles. With patience, spit and rubber mallet I went to the factory. After 45 minutes the dress rehearsal, insisted on the bedroom floor was a relatively huge, green boat. The disassembly went right instead of liquid. Then came the long program, namely the attempt, frames, braces, skin and seats in the Ally-bag to get. I soon understood why Guido told me that he had sewn his wife an extra bag for the skin.
But where there's a will, there will usually also a way for computers, which could be used in research from the experience of other reports Ally-owners quickly a method that actually have to shepherd all parts of the boat in the bag were Ally.
Now it was only to unternhmen a trial run.
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