Recent content by Glenn MacGrady

Well, if those two guys say that for solo poling, then that's the answer as far as I'm concerned, never having had personal experience poling in current. As a paddler, I rarely go slower than the current in a river except when back ferrying. In most tandem canoes, the stern is heavier than the...

I've only poled in flat water—lakes and swamps—and, if wind was not a factor, being somewhat bow light seemed obvious to me, so I could easily maneuver the bow direction and make sharp turns. Poling into strong wind, which I don't recall ever doing, I would obviously go bow heavy as with...

I'm a bit unclear, Rick, about how the stern crosses the eddy line before the bow when breaking out of an eddy, which would be quite unusual when using a paddle. Is breaking out of an eddy with a pole a different technique? Tsuga, if Rick's been poling upstream, he may very well be in a...

The Caper is not nearly as flared as Galt's earlier Dandy, BJX and Egret, and was possibly his least flared canoe. It's also the first commercially available canoe I'm aware of to have sharply "tucked in" gunwales, which don't protrude over the side of the hull. It's certainly not Yost's earlier...

The owner of a UK paddleboard company, which could just as easily have been a canoe company, was convicted of gross negligence manslaughter and imprisoned for 10.5 years in Wales for failing to warn four now-dead customers of the hazards of a low head dam (weir). Here's a short AP article...

I'm going to move the interesting but tangential discussion of the Savage River Blackwater solo canoe to its own thread HERE. Continue on with the original general topic.

I'm going to move the discussion of the Savage River Blackwater solo canoe to its own thread—this one.

This is a very different kind of picture and I like it a lot, but the text looks like phone typos and has puzzled me. Is it supposed to read "Cabin and canoes at"? If so, I'll fix it.

From the Wayback Machine, here is that essay in its original 1978 Wilderness Camping magazine format complete with pictures, which I've posted before: https://web.archive.org/web/20000903010940/http://www.moorecanoeing.com/sportcanoeing/solomystique.html I recall the same information from...

This 1981 Canoe Magazine essay by Mike Galt is a poetic paean to solo canoeing, replete with many classic Galt-isms: "Solo. Alone. But never lonely." "The solo canoe: a light, slender form in utter symphony with wind and wave." "An activity where men and women are equal. On the solo path...

My view is that there is no such thing as an ascertainable a priori "market" for a used canoe, unlike commodities that are sold in the millions every day such as stocks, bonds and real estate. Perhaps I should clarify by saying that I don't think either canoe has an unreasonable asking price...

Bpr, thanks much for sharing your project and pictures. Have you decided which of your gear will go in the large wannigan and which will go in something else?

I don't know about that. The MR Explorer is no longer made so there is no new price comparator to the $1400 ask. The MR layup is surely stronger than a modern Swift layup and it has no foam core like a Swift or Wenonah. A new Wenonah Spirit II Flexcore lists at $3,749 USD at Piragis. Plus $300...

Yes, water surrounded by mountains is the best scenic experience. And dry banks for landing and camping.

"If you were to drop a pin in the center of Curry County, Oregon, along the border of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, you would be able to reach five waterways designated as U.S. Wild and Scenic Rivers within 40 miles of each other—the Rogue, Illinois, Chetco, Smith, and Elk rivers...