MrPoling

Greetings, @Giffman ! If you go with a solo, I think the Swift P14 is a great canoe to fish from and for general use - depending on if...

Take a look at a Northstar Polaris with a center seat. The Polaris is a narrow tandem and can be ordered with a center seat. I ordered...

Glad you are healing. I trail run. A few decades ago I got a stick in the eye. It knocked me down but fortunately left only a black...

Paddled the river a lot in the 80s and 90s in open boats and yaks but never took any lessons. Bought a nice wooden Silver Creek kayak...

Nice find, it looks like it is good shape. I had an OCA. I don't know if it was factory, but it had oak trim. It might have had oak...

OK....I have concluded that have a canoe problem, similar by problem with Cross Country skis, and maybe fishing gear, and maybe camping...

Hey on283, welcome to the forum. I've not seen many factory boats that were fiberglass and carbon. My impression is both are very...

I've never been a fan of keels. I would look for a different hull. You will spend a lot of money on this build. You want to be happy...

I'm with Mem. It's a good $100 canoe, and I would give it the Rust-Oleum treatment and paddle it. Wouldn't give the spider cracks any...

I wouldn't sink any money into that canoe, except for maybe roll a couple of coats of rustoleum on it to spruce it up. The cracks are...

No thanks, my paddling gear is a tool. If it is too nice to use it is just wasteful, no matter how easy it was to buy. Wasteful has...

Thanks for posting this. I've read a lot from the american whitewater database, especially in my home states. It is good information...

Updated, inadvertently posted before complete

Location: Eno river from Kings Highway Park to dam at Orange-Alamance Lake. Date: Late September 2025 Craft: Mad River Explorer...

I like living where I can get to the water easily. I've lived waterfront, which was amazing. About half the places i've lived had...