Sliding Focus

There has been a hole in my fleet for a while now. I have a Kevlar Spirit II with bucket seats that is a great lake cruiser and will...

True canoe words. Wise choice to buy the Independence now. It's been a popular flatwater and mild whitewater canoe for decades. It...

That was my thought. If I had to guess, I'd say the canoe will be somewhat neutral buoyancy (won't sink but will "float" pretty much at...

The Indy was available with aluminum gunwales in its last year or two of production (2003 or so), but on this one it’s definitely a...

Glad to hear I'm not the only one with enabling friends ;) But I predict you're going to love that canoe: my Indy was my first solo...

I think they help prevent lifting from the plastic cap. Jim

It has been a couple years that I have been looking around trying to figure out what boat to get. Many of you on here have helped me out...

Took these in April and forgot to post them here, I’ll be adding one to the fleet when my wife’s car is paid off this summer and the...

Open water waves are very different than standing waves in river. In open water, like an ocean or lake, I think of waves as a transfer...

When paddling in a tail wind, where there is a lot of fetch, you not only have to worry about the wind pushing your stern around but I...

In Canada, solo canoes were a relatively rare bird until recently, well a decade or two. I had solo canoed quite bit in the early years...

And, if that day should ever arrive, listen to us howl in agony as we wish they'd all stayed in their kayaks. Alan

I get that. But without other considerations it doesn't make sense to me that this doesn't also apply to recreational kayaks. Tandem...

I think the idea of promoting solo canoes to new canoeists is a good one. Solo canoeing is more intuitive, and I think easier than...

Photo documentation may be lacking but I got 'er done. Now to wrap this up... I clamped the seat to the porch railing outside and...