Recent content by Glenn MacGrady

For the majority who don't know the dramatis personae, @tburris is Tim Burris, who is a Freestyle instructor and the primary organizer of the Pine Barrens Functional Freestyle Canoeing Workshop each October.

Thanks for those great photos and terrific videos, Keith. I feel good that the Wildfire is back in its element, and It almost felt like I was paddling it again. For the info of others, that looked like Bruce's (@85dragonfly) class with him in his Curtis Dragonfly, Tom (@tketcham) in his...

Very nice review and essay, Robert. It summarizes how boat control instruction can not only enhance one's paddling skills, but also increase one's mental confidence and motion pleasure.

I agree with your analysis and @gumpus: Carbon Fusion will be a weight advantage and will not likely present any disadvantage. I have a Swift Carbon Fusion Keewaydin 15 and I would not trade it for any laminate that is two pounds heavier. It performs just fine on lakes and I have even taken it...

No, there are only two thwarts. In the picture, the long black bar closest to the bow is actually a telescoping foot bar.

Let's not go overboard or hyperbolic. Even if a canoe's rocker can be adjusted 1⅛ inch, one still has to like the basic canoe design for one's purposes and circumstances. If there are 100 canoe models on the market, which is a very conservative assumption, the vast majority of people don't buy...

Paddlers forever have been playing with the installation of shorter or longer fixed-length thwarts to adjust rocker, but I've never before seen telescoping, adjustable length thwarts. It worked to adjust the rocker on the thin wood strip Shenandoah prototype and presumably on a lightweight...

Savage River had a team of four people, and a trailer with at least four different Savage River canoe models, camping and paddling with our freestyle-oriented group this past week in the NJ Pine Barrens. I'll post pictures and a report of the trip when I collect some more photos from people...

I've been a kneeler not a bucket seat sitter most of my canoeing career, but the seat was well-padded and comfortable to sit on. It traveled quite a ways fore and aft and was held in place just with body weight friction. If you raised your weight slightly off the seat you could slide it on the...

My new REI Base Camp 6 tent base camping this week, just for me, in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Inside is a chair, my new adjustable height cot, and my new adjustable leg length bamboo table with two fold-down leaves. Here, the table is at its lowest height and both leaves are up. Amidst all...

@RPATCH test paddling a wood strip prototype of a new Savage River 14' solo canoe, tentatively named the Shenandoah, on a Mullica River water prairie on October 6, 2026. This prototype had adjustable gunwale width so as to adjust the rocker. It also had a bottom-mounted bucket seat, which could...

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Since her father, @themadindian, has featured her in several photos and videos on this site, I'm sure that we would all recommend that themadpapoose should join the site so she can receive the profound benefit of our consistent unanimity as to whether to buy a kneeling, sitting or pack canoe...

Not to be a Bozo, but a former admin here, Grimaldi, suggested (a capella) that this thread could become a circus if we posted pictures of our dark-hulled, radar-equipped, ocean-going, private super yachts. Thank goodness the kayaker is blocking it. It's a nice photo, which you will...

"Wait… Camp RUTABAGA??? WHAT???" "Instructional sessions are available for paddlers of all skill levels, including “Kayaking for Canoeists” and vice-versa. There’s a class on Moving Water, which includes all varieties of boats. There’s even a class for Canoe Poling, and an Introduction to...