Recent content by Glenn MacGrady

I was never young enough to backflip off a waterfall (or anything else). Obviously, the guy had done that before and was performing for the camera. He deliberately dumped his canoe and was surely familiar with the depth of the water at the base of the falls.

Thanks, Ken. I have wheels and perhaps a companion with a truck.

Thanks much, Brightraven. Lovely pictures.

I have an almost-good-as-new 15' Nova Craft Bob Special tandem in the Aramid Lite layup (40 lbs.), which I gave to my daughter in Orange Park, Florida, but which she's never used. I've soloed it from the bow seat backwards with water ballast in front. I'd sell it. At 35" beam, it's almost as...

Sim, in your opinion, could a sedan be driven the 6 miles on the Gulf Road in the condition you saw it, or would a high-clearance vehicle, such as a SUV or truck, be necessary. Also, do you recall whether the Four Corners Parking Lot has handicapped spaces? I have tentative plans to day paddle...

Initially, I confess to have been orthographically tortured for decades trying to decide whether flatwater is one word or two. I will now settle on the one word formulation because I define flatwater as more encompassing than flat water. For example, a lake or ocean can be flat or different...

I've always packed the tent and fly together. If the fly is wet and the tent is dry, I just make sure the tent is inside the dry side of the fly as I fold or roll it. Fortunately, I don't recall a time when I had to pack both a wet tent and wet fly. If they were both wet, would it make any...

Bill Mason paddled solo in a heeled tandem canoe from the bow seat backwards, except when he skootched up to the central thwart in whitewater. Freestyle solo uses dedicated solo canoes with centralized seats, which are much shorter and narrower. Mason's style of solo paddling a heeled tandem is...

Mason, just to clarify, are you saying that if you stake and pitch before zipping the doors, it may be too tight to zip, but that this won't happen if you zip around the widest widest part of the door and leave the rest open. That would make sense to me, but I guess I just figured why not zip...

1. Missouri River speed attempt 2. 81-year-old Will Steger on 800 mile solo expedition 3. 90-year-old Dale Sanders attacks second half of AT 4. Circumnavigation of Iceland 5. Ireland circumnavigation speed attempt 6. North America circumnavigation 7. Canada by Canoe → tracking site...

"So, 10 years after its release, we loaded Esquif’s second best-selling tandem canoe into a boxcar for a five-day end-of-season whitewater trip down the Spanish River in northern Ontario." https://paddlingmag.com/boats/canoes/esquif-prospecteur-16/ There is also an introductory section on the...

I was cleaning and re-packing my tent today, and began wondering whether I should do so with the doors zipped open or closed. I got inconsistent advice from articles, humans and AI. Some emphasized closing zippers to protect the teeth, some said opening the zippers would make it easier to...

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I use a comfykayak.com kneeling pad, the "standard" rectangular model for $30.95, in multiple canoes. It's also useful as a sitting pad outside the canoe for lunch breaks and even as a doormat for my tent. It has grippy rubber underneath and fabric on top...