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Updated 6 months 1 week ago
This will be an ongoing chart where I compare boats i've paddled to each other along some common categories. I'll try and maintain this as best as I can! This is a list for river running, up to class IV, and I've used to determine what boat I want...
Updated 6 months 1 week ago
The NC Miata was finally ready for the track! We'd put all the time and effort and prep into we could fathom to take it from it's initial state of a salvage title moron owned car into a ready to go fun track car. We'd found all the stupid things the...
Updated 6 months 3 weeks ago
While the time between this track day and the last were mostly spent getting the NC Miata up to speed for my Girlfriend to try out track days with, the C5 Corvette also received some significant attention. While the previous track day had yielded...
Updated 6 months 3 weeks ago
After a brief hiatus from my previous track day, I was able to get the Corvette out with the square tires and wheels for a track day at Streets of Willow Springs. I again got out with Tracked LLC for an excellent track day. Just like last time...
Updated 6 months 3 weeks ago
So the entire goal of the 1999 Corvette was simple: Take it and do all the fun events you should be able to do with a fast car. The 1968 Corvette I'd inherited from my father and finished repairing and restoring couldn't due most events due to being...
Updated 7 months 4 weeks ago
So the NC Mazda Miata came to me with a bunch of things done right, and then whole heaps of things done stupid. The previous owner displayed wild incompetence in a whole lot of their work. For example, the seats had clearly been removed as part of...
Updated 8 months 1 week ago
Keeping with my trend of a track day every other week, I hit up a pretty affordable Streets of Willow Springs Clockwise day. I had new components to try out, with some fresh QA1 coilovers, Progress swaybars, and the Electrosport Wheel Well vents. I...
Updated 8 months 3 weeks ago
After the first two track days, I was gunning to hit my third track day with some notable upgrades. Unfortunately shipping woes would not allow it as two of my incoming tires dissappeared. How two of 4 tires all sent out at the same time go missing...
Updated 2 years 10 months ago
I am blessed with a career where I have been able to work remote for a long time now. It's an amazing luxury that I worked very hard to earn in my life, and it has afforded me amazing work/life balance. This last year or so though I've started...
Updated 3 years 4 months ago
I picked up my brand spanking new Yellow Jackson Kayak Zen 3.0 from Next Adventure, and right away the skepticism began. The shop employees and even myself had our doubts. Look at that big rocker with a big fat flat planing surface, won't that just...

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