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i do have a Rapidfire among several other solo lighwight canoes. But none are configured for kneeling in any of them, quite the...

Those of us who marathon paddle on the Yukon races (1000 miles) experience what we call "monkey butt", as your cheek halves rub and...

A couple of stories: #1. My son and his new wife came to my Adirondack Lake camp for a visit last year. She's from Texas where they...

I attended a WCHA assembly at Keuka, it was ok, not as nice for canoes as Paul Smiths is.

Drifts. When I was growing up on the edge of lake effect snow from NY's broad oval shaped Tug Hill Plateau, the area towns had several...

East of Lake Ontario, I've had enough of 4'+ lake effect snow events for this season. Was glad to have missed any real effect from this...

I don't like it that the places I used to have to fly into for hours now have roads leading to them.

At age 74 I use a couple of methods. from a low dock or low shore bank, I brace my single blade across the gunwales with blade on the...

At the time there were three weights. Two as listed above, standard and lightweight. Not shown is "camp weight" with thicker aluminum...

i got my first canoe when I was stationed in the Air Force in Columbus OH, 1975. I bought the lightweight Grumman, which made me very...

The Maiden flight and test of my ability to control my new drone to be used for monitoring vegetation growth in the small lake at my...

Although I have canoed since I was a Boy Scout, my adult time in the military kept it at a moderate level camping with a Grumman mainly...

This is an interesting question. Here is what Cliff Jacobson, now 84, says about his 72-year canoe career, about the same as mine...

Depends on how accurate you care to be. What is your location accuracy tolerance? I doubt those cheapie plastic things will get you...

It does take some practice. You need an accurate timepiece, knowledge of standard stars and how to recognize them, books of...