Recent content by chrisrezac

Trust and Silent Communication I mostly tandem paddle with my wife, and I think there's a lot of trust and silent communication. She sets the cadence from the bow. She leaves general directional control to me. When she decides to steer the bow, I follow her lead. But she'll ask me if I'm ok...

That's a pretty boat Alan. It looks like it was made to move swiftly by a swift-moving maker.

I just heard an expression yesterday. Don't yuck somebody's yum if there's some way you can avoid it. I read "If you love canoes and canoe culture and all things paddling, this is the center of the canoe universe" and thought wow, how wonderful for him and that community. It makes me want to be...

I bet my Tuf-Weave Adirondack from around 1991 weighs close to 59 pounds. I bought it used 6 years ago, so I can't speak to most of its life. But it's a really nice paddling tandem canoe for my wife and I, and sometimes our large dog comes along. It's still in great shape structurally. There are...

It can be difficult to pinpoint why people visit your store. In the Carolinas we have Great Outdoor Provision and Half-Moon Outfitters as a couple examples of outdoor stores. I know a paddler who works at one of the stores. I ordered a new boat there from him some years ago. Selling nice canoes...

I'm not sure of the proper race class terminology, but you can get to know something about Jeremy from the perspective of a Swift marketing video here. The purpose of the creation of the video is Swift marketing, and is posted on their website, but for me as someone interested in canoeing, I'm...

For a dedicated wilderness tripping canoe, are rudders an underrated upgrade or unnecessary complexity? I've never found anything complex about a rudder. Really a very basic and simple tool. I use one on my surfski, and have a few kayaks with rudders, but not one on a canoe. I might consider it...

I like that fulcrum ray projecting outward from the face of your paddle, and the blade angle such that the fulcrum ray intersects the pivot point description. Actually Glenn, I think your whole description seems really helpful, especially including the part of the pivot point gradually shifting...

There is something so satisfying about executing what is being described smoothly - moving and slipping among obstacles. Just to witness someone else do it skillfully conjures admiration. There is one thought that I have that I wonder if others experience. I will quote Marc Ornstein's linked...

Thanks for posting this Glenn. I was pondering this within the last year when someone informed me that some particular canoe didn't have tumblehome. He informed me that it was actually shouldered flare. I accepted it in the moment for purposes of the conversation and intrigue towards hearing out...

We're kind of in that in between area. We participate in an occasional paddle race, but mostly just for fun. That said, we pay attention to technique, and take some pride in attempting to be technically sound, strong paddlers. I'm not looking for an expedition canoe, but one that does just as...

My wife and I paddle a Wenonah Adirondack tandem, almost always unloaded, except sometimes with our Doberman. We don't use it in whitewater rivers. We use it in saltmarsh, creeks and rivers, bays, and lakes. It has always seemed well mannered in all aspects. No issues controlling it in the wind...

Steve, I agree with the idea that the faster you go, the less you have to fight directional control and broaching. Or how I think of it, the faster following waves are going in relation to your own speed, the pushier they will be. Waves don't really act the same as current. As the wave energy...

I wonder how much of a spectrum there is within blade angle control between control with the shaft and control with the grip? If someone is strongly right-handed or strongly left-handed, I might suppose that they exercise blade angle control mostly with their dominant hand regardless of whether...

My wife and I paddled the Green to the confluence with the Colorado last September. It was a vacation far from home though. My wife still says it was her favorite vacation that we've taken. It really was an incredible canoe trip. Very different scenery than we're used to here on the southeastern...