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Hello, I'm a relatively new canoeist. I have experience with a big heavy Old Town Guide 147, and recently picked up a Bell Yellowstone Solo off Craigslist for a price I couldn't pass up. I've been paddling the Yellowstone for a few days now and I'm having a very hard time making it go straight. I can heel over my Guide and paddle it "Canadian style" without much trouble, but I'm finding the Yellowstone pretty tippy for that. It does not seem to respond to a J Stroke very well, nor is it...

Does anybody else use a shaving horse for shaping some aspects of a paddle? First I do the blade to the throat, and the grip to the 'max choke-up' position (about a foot from the end of the grip)-- I do these clamped to the bench and in a vise for quick flipping. I do the shaft last, beginning with a draw knife on the shaving horse, and I take it down to eight sides. Then I switch to a low-angle small plane to bring it to 16 sides. Sometimes I take the horse out into the sun, and...