Recent content by Bearpaulsen

Erica, I'm GM at Northstar Canoes and also a friend of Dan's. I've used CCS covers extensively: Solo Trips: Multiple river trips in Wabakimi and Crown Lands in ON, Steel in ON, Pigeon, Berens, Poplar in MB, MacFarlane/William Rivers in SK, Thoa River in NWT Tandem Trips: Fond du Lac in SK...

Video is now on Northstar's Facebook page and You Tube channel. Thanks for the suggestion. You Tube is hard to find - we've only got 3 videos. We need to do some work on that front, but I'm the marketing, sales, HR, and probably some other departments too, so sometimes we don't get to things...

My Phoenix did not need any repairs. I did try to take photos of the hull after the trip - it was hard to capture much of the wear. Since that photo failure, last summer I decided to take a video instead. Video is of an IXP B 17 hull. The B 17 was paddled for 7 days thru the Lower Canyons of...

Black_Fly, Pretty sure some have seen these, so I apologize. However, you asked. And, I'm biased = I am GM at Northstar. I paddled an IXP Phoenix for 17 days and almost 300 miles on the Thoa River in the Northwest Territories in July 2017. All the photos are rapids I ran. Load with me was...

We used the large Windpaddle on a 26 day trip on the Kazan in 2015. The Kazan runs N-NE and prevailing winds are out of the NW. We could tack reasonably well, but only had a few times with the wind truly at our backs. Haven't taken it the past 2 trips because they were on the Thoa and Bloodvein...

In the last couple years at Bell Canoe we changed from air chambers with tanks plugs to foam filled end tanks. Tank plugs were necessary to handle pressure changes in the air chambers. We had seen quite a number of older canoes that were missing their tank plugs, thereby rendering the air...

No Title I wish I was a better photographer... Hope this helps.

I get home too late for good light, will get a good shot this weekend. Thank you for the CS compliment. Here's a brief synopsis, since I won't promise a written report, but will try. David Yost designed the original Alaskan Solo back in 2006. I spec'd that boat and learned a lot - it was way...

No Title Here's a shot of one. Let me know if you want a higher quality shot. For month long wilderness trips the Starfire is a great hull. Just returned from 18 days in the NWT with the Phoenix and loved it.

thumper, My name is Bear. I'm the GM at Northstar. A little info for you. Many paddlers value Yost designs for their ability to kneel and heel them. However, we rig every canoe for sitting, unless a retailer or consumer requests a canoe be set up for kneeling. I'd estimate that over two-thirds...