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A few photos from a recent trip to the Inverpolly area of Scotland. We had planned four days but incoming Storm Boelo didn't think much...

Monday, July 27: Day 15 'Twas a beautiful day in the neighborhood when we woke on the Eastmain sandbar. The sun was shining, hardly a...

Although I've been doing a lot of paddling lately, I haven't been fishing much. Recently I have been seeing schools of perch swimming...

Im glad to hear it arrived! I used the medium sized knico, might have been the packer. It packed plenty of punch in there. I also used a...

I'm of the same opinion as Alan. A scaled down Raven would defeat the purpose of the boat. Why not build an Osprey? That's a boat you...

As mentioned above, the 39# weight & the way it paddled in moving water both left me thinking that it might be the preferred hull on the...

Don't forget Ontario Crown Land trips as well. Marshall lake loop, or Steel river loop........no thunder boxes, no maintained portage...

Day 13 Part 2: We departed camp late - around 12:45 - and the Tiche started to really spread out and the headwinds picked up. Progress...

Wednesday, July 25 (Day 13) : Part 1 - A dawn reflection Ben neglected to mention that I wet my pants last night... It's a bit...

The upper Connecticut River isn’t a real wilderness river. It flows past more cow farms and corn fields than wilderness. The campsites...

I'd say whatever is left of your muscles is doing pretty well, that's almost 9 kph for over an hour, a speed I could only duplicate with...

I tried paddling fast once, it was highly overrated. This was the so called training paddle.

OK, I've been on a regatta course with the Wilma before... but I'll leave the racing to others.

My best training paddles are the long day trips I do. Five or six hour jaunts where I sometimes push it the whole time. Poling upstream...