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A Message Board Participation Question I’ve been dipping into Canoe Tripping more than usual of late, sometimes just to find an old photo or how-to post, and the frequent visits got me thinking about the why. As always, for the discussions, for canoe curiosity questions asked and answered, knowledge freely shared, some humor, some frivolity, some different-strokes debate. With the arrival of Spring the ebb and flow of CT has been King Tide lively of late, while the great white north lags...

I'm Francis from Belgium and a ultra-marathon canoe racer (5 x Yukon River Quest). Next year, I want to participate in a race in the UK with 78 portages, so I want to build a C1 canoe (see picture) as light as possible. I built already 2 strippers, but the question is now, again in WRC or in composite. Let me first explain how I built my 2 previous strippers: C1 - stock racing canoe simular model as the Blackwater of Savage River 17' long cedarstrips aournd 5 mm thick Outside: 1 layer 6oz...

If you just want a day paddle, what's your local water body? Descriptions and pictures are always appreciated. Here's a thread about my local paddle on the Housatonic River in Connecticut, which south of my town is dammed up into a series of lakes, the first one being Lake Lillinonah. https://www.canoetripping.net/threads/my-local-paddle-with-pix-and-critters.17719/