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My 1986 VW Jetta GLI, when they were still made in Wolfsburg, Germany. That was a great car. My 1990 Wenonah Odyssey. Great canoe. Still...

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I didn't mean to suggest he was compromising in order to write for Canoesport Journal, but thought it was interesting how people and...

Good point, but I was thinking more about his perspectives on solo and tandem sport canoeing. I went back and looked at Mike Galt's...

Interesting that Mike Galt wrote about tandem sport canoeing in his "Tandem Moves" section of Canoesport Journal.

I stand corrected on 2 counts, the nature of the weir (canoe pass /slides are more common in France), and the final results concluded...

Odyssey, I think we can all agree that low head dams (weirs), particularly very vertical ones, are an important safety issue of...

And here I thought the question "what is a canoe" had unambiguously been answered in this thread...

Well it's not as bad as I thought it might be. The skid plates have been shaved down so that they're very thin. Don't know for sure...

So everyone else's pits were hairless and smelled like rose petals? :LOL:

It's a unique stretch of the Columbia. The reminders of our development and use of nuclear warfare give it an almost surreal backdrop. I...

I got busy and then was traveling for a bit so haven't been working on it. I may try to visit the Newman's shop so I can try one out...

Having grown up south of the Province of Quebec I learned to pronounce 'portage' like the Quebecois do, no matter where I lived. But now...

Hi, Daisy, My advice? Take canoeing lessons. I read books and watched videos, which helped, but it wasn't until I took a two-day...