Marc Ornstein

The "best" example of a bubble sided boat from, back in the day, is the Curtis Lady Bug. Several of the other Curtis boats, of similar...

Great trip report, Glenn. Thanks for a fine collection of beautiful photos of the ponds, its surroundings and Rascal. I appreciate your...

Obviously, I am partial to the Savage River boats, June Bug, Illusion and Harmony, depending upon the size of the paddler. The Fire...

One point on secondary, sometimes called final stability. Some very hard chined boats and some continuously flared boats can get very...

Most of the so called shouldered boats are essentially flared to the shoulders, then tuck in. As such they stiffen, as you heel them...

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1st off, a disclaimer. I am the designer of the Savage River Illusion. I receive a modest compensation for each hull sold. I designed...

My paddling partner and your website owner, Glenn MacGrady, on Boreas Pond in the NYS Adirondacks.

Thanks Alan. I have a suspicion that Glenn's boat may indeed be the culprit - well sort of. If I recall correctly, in the original batch...

As Colonel Klink would say, "Veeery Interesting". I just reloaded all of the images, using the drag and drop (insert images) method. It...

I resized them all to mostly 70-80KB +- and they look better though lacking in definition. I'm going to leave it at this for now...

At first I was using the insert method. I tried copy paste with the same results. I'm thinking that my file sizes may be too large...

I resized them all and reposted them all again and the same result. It's a curious thing.

I did as you suggested and the same thing happened. I'll try resizing (smaller) and reload them, later today.

I saved them all at approx 1.5+- MB. The site apparently resized them again, when they were uploaded.