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Re: the new Bell canoe -- review?
Reply #10 - Oct 2nd, 2013 at 5:36pm
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If you are going to stop at Placid give them a call first .  They have water near and you could go for a paddle.
  
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Reply #11 - Oct 6th, 2013 at 3:18am
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Turns out, Placid Canoes is on the opposite end of New York state.  I'm heading north and east eventually into Maine. 

I did get to visit the folks at Oak Orchard Canoes in Albion, NY, on the south shore of Lake Ontario.  Very nice spot.  Then camped at a state park right on the shore of the lake.  Wonderful. 

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Reply #12 - Jan 28th, 2014 at 5:59pm
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The new Bell solo for 2014 is not the Phoenix, it doesn't have a name yet, but is 15.5 ft long, 30 inches wide, 26.5" waterline, and has 2 in bow, 1" stern rocker.  Waterline Length/Width is ~ 6.7, so it'll track better than Phoenix, not quite as well as Magic. Maybe the Merlin III?  Drawn by Carl Yost, it is the largest in the Yost series of solo trippers.
  
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Reply #13 - Feb 11th, 2014 at 11:17am
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I wonder if it'll be at "copia".
  
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Reply #14 - Feb 11th, 2014 at 1:01pm
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charlie wilson wrote on Jan 28th, 2014 at 5:59pm:
  Drawn by Carl Yost, it is the largest in the Yost series of solo trippers.


I saw your post and I started to ask “Isn’t the Magic a Yost solo tripper?”.  Then I noticed the name Carl Yost.  Who’s Carl Yost? What other boats has he designed?  Has the torch been passed?
I own 3 boats with a DY on the tail and love them all.   
  
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Reply #15 - Feb 17th, 2014 at 1:48pm
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Magic is surely a David Yost Design, but it is a Delta shaped, i.e. strongly Swede-Form hull designed from the ground up as a Sit and Switch Touring solo.

DY's Solo tripper series, intended for some combination of kneeling straight blade and sitting bent paddle work, includes the Curtis Solo Tripper, Vagabond, Nomad, Sawyer's StarLite and Autumn Mist, Swift's Heron, Loon and Keewaydin 15, Bell's Merlin II and Placid's RapidFire.

Carl Yost is DY's son, who has been co-designing with and building the plug boats for DY for the few several years and has now drawn his first solo hull for Bell Composites.  Yeah, the torch is passing.
  
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Reply #16 - Mar 11th, 2014 at 10:27pm
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Curious, since I couldn't make it to 'Copia.....was Ted Bell there and were there any new boats or other Bell news?

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Reply #17 - Mar 11th, 2014 at 11:48pm
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I did not see any Bell boats there.
  
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Reply #18 - Mar 12th, 2014 at 11:22am
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Reply #19 - Mar 12th, 2014 at 1:15pm
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not much there, on the Northstar website, just an intro page  -  it says full website coming in summer 2014

probably just wanted to pin down the domain name
  
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