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Very nice photos and video, as usual, Erik. Zoar Gap rapid seems to have gotten a bit easier as it's changed. With my tandem partner in the 80s and 90s (@TomP), we could do all sorts of sophisticated whitewater maneuvers tandem that we couldn't have done solo. Having experienced levers on both...

Saxfisch, welcome to site membership and congrats on your new canoe! Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Also, because canoeing is a geographic sport, please add...

"Go Paddle Day is a Paddlesports Trade Coalition (PTC) initiative designed to make paddlesports more accessible and front-of-mind for people across North America." https://www.gopaddleday.com/

"In September 1939, a man in a canoe paddled up to the shores of Thursday Island in the Torres Strait, Australia. If he looked a little worse for wear, you could forgive him — his voyage had begun seven years and four months ago on the other side of the planet, in Germany. "Oskar Speck holds...

Bart, welcome to site membership! Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Also, because canoeing is a geographic sport, please add your location to the Account Details...

Thanks for initiating and continuing this interesting and well-photographed thread, Pat. By the way, how is your physical recovery from your fall progressing?

Where can I find their trip schedule, Keith?

Nice to know I have a confident Nantucket . . . chum. 😉

A fisherman caught, unhooked and quickly released a great white shark on a beach on Nantucket. One of our members plies these island waters in various canoes, kayaks and an outrigger. https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/fisherman-speaks-after-catching-great-white-shark-133777519

Is there an analogy between single blading a canoe vs. double blading a kayak . . . and . . . driving a stick shift/manual clutch car vs. an automatic transmission car? It used to be said that maneuvering a stick and manual clutch was real "driving of" a car, while using an automatic was...

"The U.S. Coast Guard and Transport Canada are wagering they can change bad safety habits and dangerous figures with the recent approval of a new class of PFD called Level 50." "Level 50 jackets are performance-rated personal flotation devices that provide at least 50 newtons of buoyancy, which...

I'm not a boat builder or restorer, but I think it's very informative, instructive and even encouraging when people share their mistakes and what they are doing, or thinking about, to remedy the mistakes. A very good thread so far, John!

Congrats, Packrat. Keep on keeping on!

I, too, saw a Budweiser canoe. It was about 17 years ago in Bel Haven Paddlesports near Batsto, NJ — now out of business.

Tom, that appears to be an instructional series produced by Tom MacKenzie, not the Tom Foster videos that I had posted but which now seem to have disappeared from YouTube. (Lots of Toms in that sentence!)

I can visualize that. The S-hook I referred to in my previous post about my van was the Mad River Bumper Hook sold in the 1970s and 80s. It was like a squashed "S" or "?" made of white injection molded plastic. You had to slide its tight slot onto your steel bumper with some force, which kept...

I've never done it like you. Over many decades, I've almost always used my painters as my bow and stern tie-downs on my vehicle, which usually was a full-size van. That's easy, and can be done many ways. The photo below shows rear painter from grab loop to door hinge, wrapped several times. The...

I've only cooked for myself for many decades now since my family no longer goes on canoe or camping trips with me, so I no longer need any big kitchen stuff. Even on a rare group trip, I make it clear that I will cook for myself and only for myself. No one has ever cared. I want no part of food...

This was on a weekend canoe trip in New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the summer of 2025. I used a new and compact kitchen kit I bought during Covid. Prior to that for 15 years, I used a somewhat similar JetBoil kit. I don't need much to cook freeze-dried meals and make tea. Let's start: A...