Marc Ornstein

Jim, I believe I met you, a couple of weeks ago on the Itch. I was paddling a Savage River Illusion. We sat in an eddy and chatted for a...

I didn't either, until I moved to Florida.

Coating the foot area with varnish or UV Shield, as Swift recommends, are good options but also consider wearing some sort of light...

All of my solo canoes are symmetrical and all have seats with the front edge, approximately 5" behind C/L. I find that any "fine tuning"...

The ultra-light, freestyle paddle that I've been working on, for the past several weeks, is complete and ready to be shipped. It's made...

The wider blades are good for rivers. A friend made me some blanks of laminated white ash, cherry, mahogany, and walnut. I cut the...

The 1st step was isolating the best grain patterns and sectioning the board into lengths, suitable for paddle blades. Each piece was cut...

Lovely peice of wood. Glad you 2 have met. Now there will be some very happy new paddle owners

Yesterday I found a local hardwoods supplier, in a nearby town. Nice fellow with a small sawmill. He has contacts and imports logs from...

Any of the woods you stated would be fine for your purpose. Thwarts are only occasionally and intermittently exposed to water so rot is...

Nice. What boat is that?

I agree with you Tom. Simply, for purposes of this discussion, I was trying to simplify/clarify.

All good points Glenn.

Marc Ornstein gives an exhaustive list of why. https://freestylecanoeing.com/canoes-are-better-than-kayaks/ I'd only make a slight...

I was active on a sawmill forum for a while that also had a lot of loggers and foresters. As I recall one of the reasons paulownia...