Floating down a river

louie.mirags

louie.mirags

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Every summer, floating down the delaware river (near orange county ny) is an awesome time... few beers, few joints, bitches in bikinis, you know the deal. This year I want to get a legit six person raft, like one of the ones the river companies use. I cannot find them on the internet at all? Can anybody help? Or seen somewhere that sells them?
 
we had one in a lake last year that seemed sturdy enough to take down a river. I'll stick to single river rat tubes and a cooler bungee'd to a tube over spending a couple hundo on one of those though.
 
Yeah! We do this all the time! I live on a river, so we go floating quite a bit. Not so much anymore since everyone has boats, but a lot more when we were younger. Now we just anchor the boats on the sandbars and hang out.

they sell those big rafts at a lot of the water ski tournaments I go to in the summer. they're all a couple hundred bucks for the big ones. Those $800-!,000 prices are fucking outrageous. Check out this website for better deals. You're talking $200-$400 realistically....

http://search.overtons.com/?Ns=p_image_sort|1||p_purchased|1&cname=Party-Island-Floats&Ne=1000&N=2052

 
depends on the river. There are a few rivers we float in the summer around BC that are doable in a party raft. I prefer rivers with a bit more 'excitement' requiring a proper tube, but a nice mellow float in a party raft is still good times.
 
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this, if the river's casual enough to lounge, smoke, and drink beers down then cheap little boats at canadian tire or gas stations do the trick pretty well.

buuut i do have a few friends who have legit rafts and they're fun as hell for casual floats and whitewater.

http://www.aire.com/aire/
 
Are you talking about these?

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Cause if you are they are expensive as shit. I used to be a lifeguard at a water park and one of them got a hole that we couldnt patch and we had to order a new one. Theyre not really available to the public either. Now the way I see it you have a few options for floating/rafting/river adventure (whatever the fuck you call it around there).

1. The classic River Rat. Cheap, portable, holds a cooler like a boss, round, floats.

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2. The big O (screamer). Big, flat, fits two people, awesome to pass out on or fingerblast other river rats

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3. Floating mat. Fun, different, bitches will think youre Jesus walking on water, expensive.

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4. Canoe/Kayak. Youll be "that guy in a canoe", makes you look like a nickleback fan, endorsed by Hitler

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yup. they get holes pretty easily though.

what you could do would be to go to a farm implement store and see if they have any gigantic tractor tire inner tubes. then just take some tough fabric and make a platform over it so you can have a couple people at a time on the thing.
 
lifejackets required!

just go to your local outdoors store, dick's, walmart, whatever. if there's nothing raftish just get creative and strap a bunch of smaller ones together. it always works out
 
it's the best shit, pack a cooler full of beer, roll a few joints, get mad crunk while we float down the river. my profile pic on here is me taking a joint break on a rafting trip haha
 
also, we used cheap small rafts at first but they pop, so we hit up the army surplus store, and they sell great rafts, one lasted 2 summers of some pretty sketchy shit before it popped and we patched it for a whole third summer before getting a new one.
 
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i forgot to add my friends and i got a bunch of river rat 2s last year, that is the 2 person one with the cooler.. Not all of them lasted, plus the really slow parts suck with no paddles... the last time i went down i was able to go down on one of those 6 person rafts that the tourist rent since one of my female friends was hookingup with a kid who was working with a renting company.. it was so much more badass, it was sick to be able to paddle, had to worry less about drowning the weed too... plus a real cooler so the ice doesn't melt with the shitty tube coolers..

 
ya we go on floats in my neck of the woods aswell its great fuckin time. i always prefered the single tubes so u can explore the river and catch sweet currents
 
those things are so ghetto. I'm not saying they're bad, per say... I've seen them go from brand new to having to be abandoned on their first float. You just gotta be gentle with them you know?
 
the explorer 200 is definitely a great rig, river runs are also awesome for the casual float.

if you really want to ball out, go to canadian tire and pick up a "party island". one of my buddy's bought one and it really is a party island, they come with waterproof speakers and floating cooler.

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party island is the circular one loaded up in the middle.
 
Good luck man, decent ones for whitewater are expensive as hell. even a good inflatable kayak is like a grand.

If your talking lazy river floats without rapids, just invest in two blowup dolls to tape together and have a ballin threesome while you float the summer away ha.
 
I work at a waterpark and a couple years ago we went in the tube cage and stole some clear double tubes with handles. Those things are perfect for floating. They're pretty heavy duty, holds 2, handles, and we duct taped a few together and threw a cooler in one and had a great time.
 
Haha who do you know?

I'm probably gonna be training in pools this summer so I'll be right under them. I'm cool with all of them too
 
Oh yeah haha he went to my school the year before he went to Manogue. Hit me up sometime if you wanna chill over summer though!
 
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