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TeamRiverRunnerPDX with a Fleet of Bullets

Last fall Team River Runner participated in the Clackamas River Cleanup with a fleet of Bullets.  They had this great photo to send in.  The group’s leader, Shane Conrad, wrote in:

Just wanted to say thanks for letting Team River Runner PDX borrow your extra raft to participate in the Clackamas Clean Up. It was a great event that allowed us to get about 10 wounded veterans and team them up with about 14 kids from Job Corps and participate in a worthy community service project. This also allowed us to partake in the 9/11 United We Paddle event that Team River Runner National encouraged people across the United States to get on the water and paddle in remembrance of those who lost their lives on September 11th. Portland came in #2 in the entire country with 118 people signed up! There were a lot of smiles and great times on the water that day. Just wanted to express our gratitude. Thanks for always offering to help!

Always glad to support our veterans!  If you run into these folks on the river, give them a shout out: it’s a great program for a great cause.  Keep up the great work, TRR-PDX!

If you’re ever in Mongolia, give Mongolia River Adventures a call. Pat Phillips and his Mongolian partner Bulgaa run Bullets down multiple rivers including the Selenge Gol, Suman Gol, Ag Su, Kharatas Gol, Khovd Gol, Turgan Gol and more. It’s the frontier of river exploration in Mongolia and Bullet is excited to be a partner and support the dream. Most shipping companies wouldn’t attempt to send a boat to Mongolia, but Bullet worked with MRA and got a custom built Bullet there ahead of schedule. Keep an eye our for it in their promotional video.

Bullet’s line of fine lookin’ 2012 boats is here, along with Bullet’s first series of 12′, 14′, and 16′ cats. With multiple color and outfitting options to choose from, each boat is hand built to your specs. The 2012 series builds on the strong 2011 design and has slight tweaks to drain-hole locations and valve placement. Also new are the optional 2012 CPS Thwarts. See the 2011 Video for general specs and the 2012 CPS thwart video for information on the 2012 CPS Upgrade. Music credit: MF.

We’ve been hard at work developing the 2012 Series of Bullet Boats and Cats, and are releasing our new Bullet CPS Thwarts in 2012. This short video illustrates the thwart attachment design. One of Bullet’s innovations is to include a fast belt to secure the pin, rather than a cumbersome metal keyring that can become bent and chafe against the tube or paddlers’ legs. We leave the keyring option available, though, so that the choice is up to you!

–  Take note! December 15 Deadline for Spring Delivery Orders of Custom Boats  –

Introducing the Bullet Cat - Cat14 Shown

We’ve been listening to those emails, and today we’re proud to release the Bullet Cat.  Introducing our 12′, 14′, and 16′ cats: streamlined and stable, big and small.  With tube diameters of 21″, 22″, and 23″ respectively, you’ll feel buoyant support combined with agile handling in all models.  Each Bullet Cat tube comes with four 2″ D-rings on its inner and outer face, eight total, meaning you have plenty of points to strap your frame to.  Continue reading …

A New Last Descents Bullet 16

This summer, the Chinese-American partnership Last Descents River Expeditions chose Bullet for their new 16′ boats.  Last Descents was started by Travis Winn, a native Oregonian with a history on the Grand Canyon.  It is a cross-cultural partnership that advocates protecting rivers and connecting people to them.  Last Descents has grown Continue reading …

The New Bullet 12 SL has not appeared on in the Widescreen Boat Browser… yet.  But it’s been through a year of product testing and development.  Our goal was to create a slimmer version of our Bullet 12 ST.

The ST is a fat 6’11″ wide, 12′ boat with four tube chambers for similarly fat 20″ tubes.  Continue reading …

Greetings from Europe, where we’re checking out rivers from Spain to the Balkans. There is excellent whitewater scattered all over this continent and great people to share it with. Enjoy the Euro-remix of a trip down Washington’s Upper Wind River, a class III/IV section of the upper wind only 45 minutes from downtown Portland, OR. The run has three class IV rapids, and plenty of fun class III to keep things interesting.  This run was a low water, about 600 cfs.  Keep in mind that it can become much more demanding at higher flows.  A writeup can be found at Oregon Kayaking.

Bullet Running Left at Lava Falls

Click on the picture above for a great shot of a Bullet 16 running left on high-water Lava! This is a high-water season on the Colorado River through Grand Canyon, with flows regularly above 20,000 cfs. Flows this high make for huge days at Hance, Hermit, Lava, and Horn Creek … not to mention Granite, House Rock, etc. etc. etc.  Can you guess the location of the picture below? Continue reading …

The Breitenbush is one of the northwest’s classic Class IV runs in a beautiful, tight gorge outside of Salem, OR.  Somewhere in between the pizzazz of PROKAPs and the Japanese Pop video above, you can catch glimpses of the Breitenbush’s stunning blue water and excellent rapids. Flow in the video is about 600 cfs. Continue reading …