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Willapa Bay, Washington afternoon paddle with Son.

Caught in a downpour yesterday, Follensby Clear Pond, ADKs:

Lake Kanawauke, Harriman S.P., NY-- first lake (Little Long Pond). I needed an excuse to try my newly made paddle: Campers from the...

Approximately. When the boat is at rest relative to the local water, the pivot point will be under the combined boat+gear+paddler center...

I came across the following explanation from the book The Canoe Handbook: Techniques for mastering the sport of canoeing by Slim Ray...

Sideways motion also shifts the pivot point. In aerodynamics we'd say the center of pressure shifts aft with increasing "angle of...

This was my thought watching the video - had they pulled the upstream gunwale up and over the rock, they may have been able to flip the...

I didn't realize there were two different videos of the same pin incident. Having watched them both, I feel I should offer a different...

I don't have any empirical tests or comparisons but, in general, I believe Royalex can recover from the same severity of creases and...

I have two canoes in both Royalex and composite - a RX Yelowstone Solo/White Gold Wildfire and a RX Mad River/composite Milbrook...

I watched Jon's video of this trip yesterday, and as always it was well done. I was disappointed to see that Jon wasn't kneeling in that...

I have a rx OT Tripper that I bought in 2005 or 06, that I figure saw over 1000 miles of river travel from Canada to the Carolinas in...

I agree. I think there are several reasons Clippers don’t get more recognition outside of Western Canada, but they boil down to...

This is a timely post for me because I made a run yesterday that should have been a 3 hr easy trip and turned into a 7+ hr ordeal with...

I only have two canoes with gelcoat, and I haven't done much scraping with them. So I can't say whether they will slide off a rock as...