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Day 4 donations received. Thank you to: @Punkinhead @Murat V @clemency @Sliding Focus @Jatfomike @stripperguy @Pseudonym Target number of donations: 80 Total donations received to date: 28 Registered members: 3,713

Lennart, thanks for starting this thread but I don't see a picture in your OP either.

This is odd. Swift's family-owned store in the USA has a Swift model in stock called the Kruger 16.6 that is "so new we don't have specs yet!!!" Yes, Dave Kruger over his career worked for Wenonah, Bell and Epic Kayaks. I believe he passed away in 2020. At Wenonah, he designed at least the...

Thanks for that interesting history, @DrewS.

Very good comparative explanations, photos and video, @Riffle-Raff. Thanks for sharing your experience and opinions.

Day 3 donations received. Thank you to: @themadindian @Jmharrick @recped Target number of donations: 80 Total donations received to date: 21 Registered members: 3,713

Day 2 contributions received. Thank you to: @RogerMac @Superdave @snapper @Crawforde @BigandSmall @VA paddler @Ralph Target number of donations: 80 Total donations received to date: 18

Late in the evening of each day, I will acknowledge the donations actually received that day, how many total donations have been received as of that date, and how many additional donations are needed to reach the target of 80 donations. Today, thank you to: @Aslowhand @kahel @gadabyte...

Molly Gurien, the current Chair of the Freestyle Committee and wife of @Marc Ornstein, has written a retrospective article of about her life in canoeing and how she ended up meeting various paddlers who have now become well-known canoe personalities. Molly has been a teacher and friend of mine...

Some Canadians have sent cash, too, and somehow manage to get American bills.

I believe you. I really do! (And I know where you live.)

Thank you, @ABT, for the first donation!

WHAT From its founding in 2011, this site has been kept financially alive solely by virtue of voluntary member donations during fund drives, which used to take place annually. Consequently, there never have been any ads or required dues here. Let's keep it that way. In our last fund drive in...

In flat water, you can attach gear by long tethers rather than tying it all tightly to the hull as in whitewater. That way, the gear can float out or be tossed out to empty the hull for re-entry, and yet not be able to float away. Roy Goodwin recommends this method in the video posted by...

If you're young and strong and nimble enough, and especially if you're solo paddling a tandem, here's another example of the flip:

Interesting and excellent thread. Thanks, Al.

If I do that, can I take the covers on and off. I'd like to increase the covers' clamping force on the Landing Pads but don't want to glue the covers onto the Landing Pads. Are you sure you had similar components to the Landing Pads and snap-on covers that I picture in my OP? As far as I and...

I did in 2014, and actually on a canoe trip. It was my last day in Alaska; my plane left Anchorage after midnight. That afternoon I soloed a Penobscot rented from REI on Portage Lake, just outside Anchorage, slaloming around the small icebergs that were calving off the Portage Glacier. After...

"Valuable" can mean something of monetary or sentimental value. I'm going to construe canoe trip very loosely for myself in this thread. Maggie and I drove to Lake George, NY, in the Adirondacks last week to leaf peep and paddle bark canoes with Rogers' Rangers. I believe this is a picture of...

ANGRY UPDATE: Don't take your vehicle with Yakima landing pad covers on the highway either. On an interstate trip last week (55-65 mph), I stopped at a rest area and discovered that one of the covers had blown off and another was half detached. They simply don't have sufficient inherent grip...