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You only live once to fulfill your fantasies, Verlen Recped. Just make sure you take videos for us when you track the length of the Yangtze River with your painter lines.

It's 25 million years old. The Great Lakes, in contrast, are at most 20,000 years old. It's also the deepest lake in the world at over a mile. And the seventh largest lake in the world. You probably haven't paddled it yet. It's in Siberia...

On February 28, 2025, Pelican International Inc. filed a Notice of Intention to Make Proposal (NOI) under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA) in Canada, citing challenges in the post-COVID economy including U.S. tariffs, significant shifts in market demand, supply chain disruptions, and...

I would only prefer an asymmetrical grip if I were using a bent shaft because bent shaft paddles have defined power faces and back faces. For a straight paddle with undefined and switchable faces, I would always prefer a symmetrical grip so I can easily palm roll the paddle on recovery strokes...

At 29:31 of this Swift 2025 product launch video, Bill Swift goes over all the custom features of @RPATCH's blue forged carbon DF 15 and also displays a DF 15 with one of Jeremy's RedLeaf custom spray covers.

I don't own a 15" Starfire, but I traveled to Pennsylvania three years ago with a strong intention to buy Tim Burris's Colden Starfire, which was made as a solo. After paddling it for about an hour, I decided not to buy it. My reason was that I didn't find it that much different from my 14' Bell...

Swift now has the molds restored for all three of the Yost/Wilson Fire canoes from the early 1990s: Flashfire, Wildfire and Starfire. Each was formerly made by Bell, then Placid, then Colden. Swift earlier announced the availability of the Flashfire and Wildfire, and in the video below Bill...

"The Wisconsin Canoe Symposium (WCS) offers excellent instruction in a quiet water venue for people wishing to improve their skills in paddling and precise control of their canoes. The quiet water classes are offered for all skill levels. Student/instructor ratio is limited to 5 to 1. The...

First, I'd like to welcome Jeremy to site membership! Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Also, because canoeing is a geographic sport, please add your location to...

The 16'-6" solo Prism is also made in SuperLite at 29 lbs. https://www.wenonah.com/Canoes.aspx?id=121&SuperLite=1

Lots of pictures in his blog article: https://adamshoalts.com/lake-erie-to-the-arctic/

I'm not sure exactly when this new laminate construction was announced, but Wenonah now makes three or four canoes in "SuperLite," which is 15% lighter than their Ultralight Aramid construction. For example, the 18'-5" Minnesota II can be made at 36.5 pounds (16.5 kg)...

@Cole T Bennett, please put a notice on this site when you have more of your first version Slackseats in stock or any modified version. I may want to try one for the NC Bob Special I have in Florida, which is very annoying to paddle from the bow seat backwards. You could either put your notice...

Robert, is this your new Swift Dragonfly 15? If so, it would be great to see more pictures of it here. And . . . are you still planning to risk its pristine virginity in the rapacious Yukon territory this summer?

What I make of it is, Tim says in that full review that he uses one of his Baboosics for moving water and the other for freestyle play and lakes, by which I take him to mean day trips on lakes. He also admits it doesn't glide on lakes like a dedicated lake hull and that a good forward stroke...

Cars are getting better for courting. Next year Tesla will have a model with no steering wheel. Still not as good as a Charles River courting canoe, and a bit more expensive. @Benson Gray, I forget whether you have a courting canoe in your W/C collection.

The Baboosic is a very stable and maneuverable canoe. For example, it has been preferred by freestyle champion Tim Burris to his Colden Starfire, which I almost bought from him three years ago. However, the Baboosic is a slow forward paddling canoe with its waterline width of 30" and very low...

The burlap bag look is Swift's "expedition" strength basalt/Innegra fabric, which they put on the outside and inside of the expedition canoes.

We can discuss fees for any country's parks, but this is not a site to discuss "trade wars."

F(general)I: https://www.canoetripping.net/threads/do-canadians-paddle-in-america.106626/