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The carrying capacity has a lot of variance from manufacturer to manufacturer. Some use waterline, some use freeboard, it can get weird. Most modern manufacturers seem to give an ideal weight range, which seems to correlate with the 3-4" waterline, give or take. My experience, which is nothing...

Name that summer camp... 😄

That is the hope. But the best-laid plans of mice and men.... 😄

The biggest variable right now is my underlying cardiopulmonary "fitness". I *know* that it is not good, and I won't have a real baseline for at least another month. Because of my lack of fitness, lower-effort training is difficult on the erg. It's not like being on the water where you can...

Did two 15 minute intervals today. (Plus a little max-effort sprint at the end, not recorded) The goal was to hold 60spm for 15min and hold 40spm for 15min Potentially interesting bio-efficiency correlation. I need to get my fitness way up before I start drawing conclusions, but at my current...

“I’ve been in the canoe business for 45 years,” Bell says. “The plan is to stay here, because we own the building, and to keep the same workforce, because they do a really good job. That’s my goal. My goal is to replace me, so I can do more of what I want to do at this age.” Article further...

And you would have been right! 😁 I am well-known at work for exactly this type of explanation when a more concise answer would have been more than adequate. A curse of my home-school education.

Yes and no, lol. Data sheet below. Here is a link to more info, and a screenshot of one paragraph in particular. https://www.epoxyworks.com/about-epoxy-shelf-life/

Bump for progress?

Here is the build thread, if you want some more background. https://www.canoetripping.net/threads/x-canoe-build.19929/#post-20181

@Alan Gage @yknpdlr Gentlemen, I really appreciate you consistently providing me with information. I hope to continue to receive such as I journey toward my first race.

I need to get in the real boat soon and figure out the stroke dynamic. Watching some of the marathon guys, I think I am applying power for a much longer stroke. Easy to do on the erg, with cadence being the only penalty. Might not work well in real life. I naturally want to do a longer...

That is good to know. I am taking my very first steps into the race world, and as we know, the first steps are loaded with appeals to authority followed by confirmation bias. I have been watching the K2N Paddle School channel quite a bit, and he is dogmatic about hip rotation...

Yeah, there are some good points in there, but that whole channel is generative LLM content.

Not speaking for @zehyani , but I used foot straps in one boat one time for about 30 minutes, so that qualifies me as an expert on the subject. The pic below shoes a typical setup, as far as I've seen. It allows for a push-pull action with the feet, rather than push-only. Think of when you lift...

I dont usually have any issues with my line sinking, or with it being too heavy. But, MAN, are these things a PITA to keep coiled. Post contains text-generative imagery

I dunno if this fits, but here's an image that will help get me through the winter. . . 😁

Depends on the water and wind. I've moved into the bow, sat solo in the stern, knelt in the middle, whatever made the boat do what I wanted with as little wasted effort as possible. I generally find that close to level level is a nice compromise for 99% of conditions. But I am inexperienced and...