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The Wildfire went to it's new home in July Tom B

Pick up pending

I was going to rebuild this one and never got around to it. I have since bought a Northstar Firebird which is significantly lighter so am unlikely to finish this project. Free if you want it. Must pick up in South Dartmouth MA, 02748. Hull is in good shape, especially for its age (one of the...

A couple of pictures of the decks on my Colden Nomad. The inwales are the same length as the outwales. There is a triangle filler block between the inwales and the capping deck piece is glued to it. Of the three screws you see in the outwale, the forward one is short and fastens into the...

I have been using Kenalu paddles with my SUP for the last five years (I have 3 Kenalu paddles). They use hot melt glue for assembly. Never had a problem and have been able to easily reconfigured them a few times. There is a video on their web site...

I have a Firebird set up for kneeling and absolutely love it. Highly responsive and just plain fun to paddle. However... I don't think it would be very good as a pack. It has a fair bit of symmetric rocker which gives it the responsiveness. With a single blade you can keep the power close to...

I have a few SUP paddles from Kenalu and they use regular hot melt glue for the joints. I have reconfigured things several times using a heat gun and more hot melt glue. Been using their paddles for four or five years without any issues. They have a video on assembling paddles on their web...

I live near the ocean in Southern MA and paddle those really thin decked canoes about half the time (some would call them SUPs). I may even several in my fleet and a half dozen long paddles to boot. I am 5' 10" and have settled on 79.5" as my ideal "long paddle length" with about 16" to 17" of...

I have used the two canoes on the bottom with spreader bars and the third on on top with good results (about 1,000 miles of driving). The two bottom canoes were similar size and reasonably solid composition boats. The one on top was a bit shorter and lighter weight. All boats tied...

Lance, I recently got an industrial machine and really like it. I had been using my wife's home machine for projects but it does not handle heavier stuff well. If I were to damage it with the heavy stuff I would be in for a world of suffering. I had been wanting covers for two of my canoes and...

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I paddle year round on Buzzard's Bay in southern Massachusetts and have several thickness wetsuits and a drysuit. The drysuit is really the prefered option when the water and air temperatures drop. Right now the water is 45 degrees which is drysuit or heavy wetsuit conditions. My thick...

I had a 30+ year old Shaw and Tenney beavertail that I really liked but unfortunately broke it in a moment of abuse pushing off a rock. I also have two sets of oars from them that I like. I ordered the Penobscot beavertail online to replace the broken paddle but was disappointed with the new...

I agree with Cruiser. I know it would bug me every time I looked at it.

I have a Bell Yellowstone Solo in royalex that I bought with the typical kevlar felt skid plates installed and never really liked them. I ended up installing an "improved" version of skid plates on a used Prism I bought because a few layers of skin in the ends were worn through by a previous...