Recent content by yellowcanoe

Tripping or day paddling? A 15 footer would be fine for day paddling or even a 14 Tripping you might move up to a 16 Longer canoes require more driving oomph but shorter ones can sink too deep making paddling no fun(. Most canoes from well respected builders have a. performance weight range so...

Actually we found it quite maneuverable if you were willing to heel it a little. I used to padde Canadian Style in it. I was doing that when Princess Dianas death was announced. Gunwale to the water the thing spun like a top.

That site is crowdsourced and hence incomplete. I wll say that snow pack is still a factor in northern Maine.. We have a bit with a foot or more ( we seem to be in a target area) coming tomorrow per the Weather Channel hysteria hucksters. The US Biathlon takes place in Ft Kent this weekend.

here we go again.

had 13 in or so during Ember What a sweet storm that was. Fluff then comes in Finn like my wet granddog a mess. 5 inches of snow and then rain but the snow did not all melt like the bozos on the Weather Channel down in Atlanta said it would. Since it is now 47 I will wait and let melt...

efficiency.. a hull that is wobbly won't paddle as efficiently on flat water as the waves will change the hull shape. I have a 23 lb RapidFire and its getting loaded on the car soon to paddle in Florida. Florida has oyster bars which are sharper than shale Plus the rivers do have limestone as...

Huh? Where do I find a meter long thermometer? The thermocline matters and if my bottom half will be in 38 degre water I would care more about that than the surface 55.

Really no troubles. We did from Coal Banks to Kipp in five days! We did manage to scramble up mud banks to explore fascinating abandoned homesteads. I am not a history buff very much but I was intrigued by imaginging the difficulties people in the past encountered. We all know that no two...

And we did it in May. Never again. The geese were mating and pooping and the 24 hour noise was awful. It was muddy and high and the cows were in it too. We did the Green and the Missouri Breaks in one trip west. We froze on the Green and it was 103 degrees on the Missouri. Go figure...

y'all so smart! Have you met him/her in person? Would be topic for another thread though not here.

What am I ? Yoy don't want to meet me

Your Smart ( a$$) truck ought to have a manual override or be smart enough to turn its own lights off when not running down the highway. I just can't wrap my head around this scenario! You don't have carkeys or keyholes? Yikes.. My downer brain is imagining you coming off a canoe trip to a...

this stroke wasn't used for hunting. Used by tandem teams to haul hundreds of pounds of camp gear. If you have ever seen a logging camp the stuff is not light! And back in the day paddlers knew how to forage for materials in the woods for repairs. I know of just a few with the skills now to...

No disrespect but the paddle does not really come out of the water. Very poor demo. He is going in circles as there is no correction force The only t hing correct is yes you can fulcrum off the knee as long as the knee is not above the gunwale. As a matter of fact the stroke is usually done...

I could spend all today armchair travelling in Algonquin! Very detailed!