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I am happy today; I just made my first paddle! Many years ago I had picked up a copy of “Canoe Paddles A Complete Guide to Making Your...

I can relate to this post big time, not necessarily just with canoeing, but with my interests in general. The balancing part is hard...

I mounted a pair of pumps in my Encore, right behind the pedestal. They weren’t permanently mounted, but I never removed them. The pumps...

I was back with the kayakers yesterday to paddle a short, fun river in north central CT – the Scantic. The Scantic arises near...

I use a Werner Bandit pretty much all the time. You can do a J stroke, or a C stroke, or a Canadian stroke or a goon stroke with it...

When I think of all the sacrifices my "life" has imposed on my paddling, any sacrifices that tripping has made on my life are...

Very interesting post. My first thought is I make sure all my canoes are tandem not solo, a sacrifice in ease of paddling, to make sure...

On-the-water test photos should happen this weekend. I'm really looking forward to finding out how this Outrage handles.

I look at it a little different. Paddling isn’t a sacrifice that that takes me away from other things. It’s the part of having a...

Have fun breaking it in - every scratch tells a story! I have lots of stories on my boats.

I took your advice and now have a like new, basically unused (not a single river scratch on the bottom!), factory outfitted Millbrook...

A few from an Adirondacks trip - Long Lake to Saranc Village. Another one at Raquette Falls Indian Carry to Upper Saranac Lake...

Jake Feener, a Maine canoeist has just put out a nice video of a canoe trip down the Machias River in eastern Maine. Some poling, white...

I'm not the tarp-master. There are others in my usual group that are better at setting them up than me. This was our year-end overnight...

My old Forester had the same problem - quart of oil every 1000-miles. Not sure what the issue was, but even the dealer told me that it...