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Among the common oaks up there were chestnut oaks - and they have very large acorns, they can most certainly put a dent in one's head when hiking through piedmont forests! May or may not be speaking for experience...

Longshot I know - but looking for creekin' locations in central Maryland that will not destroy my boat. I have paddled portions of the Gunpowder, Patapsco, Bush, and Patuxent Rivers in addition to Deer, Northeast, and Elk Creeks, but all of them on the piedmont are quite rocky and can do a...

This strikes me as a case of putting the emFASis on the wrong sillABble.

I have been thinking for some time that Esquif has been missing the boat (pun intended) a bit by not having a 14' Prospecteur solo - this boat will end up being essentially that with its added depth. With exactly zero evidence to support this claim, as I floated above I could see the main...

This is about about which I have been curious for quite some time. Interesting to see an update - I wonder if they are going to remove the tumblehome to increase freeboard a bit (and either way I also wonder whether both the one and two will be simultaneously available)...

This is something about which I know very little, but I believe you can have an asymmetrical boat that is not Swede-form; I have generally been under the impression that Swede-form boats have the widest part behind the enter, essentially making them longer in front of the beam and shorter...

This makes me feel like a movie star, you can see me paddle out of the frame in the first few seconds of the video! :ROFLMAO::LOL::ROFLMAO:

I am HUGE fan of the WildFIRE - and would never debate the need to buy one! 😁 I do want to paddle the Cirrus, because why not! Plus it's a Swift and a Yost design, both of which I love. :sneaky:

I think I didn't word my original post well - what I was trying to ask is whether boats like the Cirrus and YS solo would be equally as maneuverable as a WildFIRE when heeled - does the heel remove the straight-tracking enough to make the heeled Cirrus equal in maneuverability to a WildFIRE?

Curiosity question - everyone knows the advantage of having a boat with a fair amount of uniform rocker for maneuvering in narrow creeks. But heeling should hypothetically lift the stems out of the water a bit - so the question is whether boats designed with a slight amount of differential...

It was great meeting you Glenn! I wish I could have paddled with you guys - but a night of camping was great fun nonetheless!

P.S. Great Grapes is an awesome name! 😂🤣😂

I cannot wait to see where the new tough layup falls on the weight spectrum. Despite my challenges in the Yukon this summer I've been slowly but surely falling in love with my RockSTAR - but switching it out for an IXP-like SRT is going to be mighty tempting. MIGHTY tempting. That being said - I...

I have been kicking myself endlessly over the past two months about not trying to backferry or even spin around and ferry away from that log pile - not sure I would have had time from the point I realized what I was facing, but in the panic of the moment I didn't attempt reversing or ferrying...

I was just reading through some old posts - I cannot tell you how prescient this was. I ended up on a log pile this summer on the Big Salmon. There was a sharp meander that had cut through and I didn't notice until too late that the water was flowing straight under the log pile rather than...