Idiot Savant

Not sure this is up your alley, but a thru-hiker friend of mine told me that the Soto Windmaster was very popular with the thru hiker...

I'm thinking someone needs to post a thread about storing multiple canoes. In my neck of the woods, Northsta'rs in IXP and Wenonaha's in...

Loaded or unloaded matters too. The bottom of the Echo seems fairly stiff. I was in a canoe class last spring and you could watch the...

Have you considered a second canoe? I hate to send you down that rabbit hole but, sometimes, it's the most sensible option. One canoe...

I believe Esquif calls the Echo shallow arch, not flat. I would put it somewhere in between shallow and flat. Another boat I had been...

I recently watched a video of a guy on an overnighter with a Prospector 14 and thought it looked like a good all around boat. Maybe not...

Well, that's comforting. I got my Echo last spring and hoped to use it on a canoe trip in 2022, but I ended up paddling tandem on the...

This is a timely question. I think I did my last lake paddle, of the year, last week. Took the racks off my truck and put my IK in my...

When I go for a day paddle, I almost always use my IK, so about the only time I really get to use a canoe paddle is on a trip. My most...

There are things that are obviously essential, like a boat, a paddle, a PFD. If you are comping, it's hard to get by without a sleeping...

I've been using a 220 cm high angle paddle. I've been thinking that 230 might be better. I've tried really long paddles using a low...

I was considering making my own. Can't be that hard. But this guy has obviously made many paddles before and is far more skilled at it...

Personally, I've found drip rings to be next to worthless. Most of the water runs off the corner of the blade, and into the boat...

To paraphrase Clint Eastwood in the Eiger Sanction, the operative word in my statement was mainstream, not first. I belong to a pretty...

I'm not afraid to break with tradition. I started paddling my solo canoe, with a double bladed paddle, long before it became mainstream...