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I just had a text conversation with a friend about this. He sent me FB listing for a junk OT Saranac 146 poly canoe with plastic...

I change how I switch depending on conditions. The only constant is that the bottom hand is the one that hands off. If I'm paddling on...

(Compact) Kitchen Kit - Show Yours US Canteen Cup + Canteen Cup Hobo Stand . . .

Nice to know I have a confident Nantucket . . . chum. 😉

My humble solo setup.

This was on a weekend canoe trip in New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the summer of 2025. I used a new and compact kitchen kit I bought...

😂 that seat was one of the few things that I actually liked about the Next. Super comfortable and definitely was a selling point when I...

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

Me in 1985, practicing 300 consecutive rolls in North Pond, Maine, in prep for my first river run in a C1 . . . on the Rapid River in...

Hole in the mangroves. Weedon Island, Old Tampa Bay.

I had no idea solo canoes were even a thing when I started looking at upgrading my kayak. I forget how I stumbled across the concept...

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...

Surely similar but... Mine will never grace the halls of any museum and (some did notice) none of the psychedelic colors on mine are...

My wife and I did a day paddle in the Delaware Water Gap for my birthday this year. We’ve previously paddled lower sections of this...