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David Lee has scores of excellent videos on YouTube, mostly canoeing but also backpacking, snowshoeing and winter camping. Among his videos is a two-season series of videos called "The Portage Project", which features a team of women tripping in Canada and which I'll start at new thread about HERE.

David Lee has scores of excellent videos on YouTube, mostly about wilderness canoe trips but also backpacking, snowshoeing and winter camping. Among his videos is a two-season series of videos called "The Portage Project", which features a team of women tripping, portaging and dragging open...

My 1997 Dodge van conversion, which has been my canoe vehicle and mobile home since 2002, only has 130,000 miles. However, the resident mice haven't let me inside for about 18 months, and last winter a tree fell on it and crushed my rack tower. I wonder if the old gas guzzler will even start...

Great canoeists here, but Sherlock Holmes' job is safe.

There is a spring 2025 Swift Demo Day at Collinsville Canoe & Kayak in Canton, Connecticut, on Saturday May 10 from 10-4. Website says: "$20 demo bracelet required to 'Try Before You Buy'. Refundable with the purchase or special order of a Swift boat." But the email I received says $30...

Neither. They're both Americans. The one on the left is still alive and working in the canoe industry.

The Canadian stroke, AKA Guide stroke, AKA Northwoods stroke, AKA knifing J stroke, AKA loaded slice return stroke, can also be done with a palm roll at the end of the forward stroke pull, as I discussed in THIS THREAD. If you loosen both hands when you've reached reached the back end of your...

Florida Wildlife had the gator killed six months later with a shot to the head: https://www.ocala.com/story/news/2022/03/10/alligator-menaced-ocala-florida-paddleboarder-silver-springs-killed-river/9442274002/ The paddleboarder, Vicki Baker of Ocala, unfortunately died of cancer in 2023, two...

Better to be in a canoe than on a paddleboard if a gator attacks. TV News Report However, this is Silver Springs, Florida, a beautiful spring run and a big tourist attraction at the spring head. The gators at the spring head are very habituated to humans and boats. It was probably looking to...

The Petawawa is a river I always wanted to paddle since I first read about it from Bill Mason long ago, but never had the opportunity. This is a good video experience of the rapids from the POV of the stern paddler, which was my usual tandem position. Rivers are the most fun to paddle. Moving...

Re Swift screw-in yokes, that's the price one pays for carbon fiber over foam gunwales. Besides, while it's possible, I've never used a clamp-on yoke to flip a wood gunwale canoe onto my shoulders, nor do I recall ever seeing anyone do that. With a heavy canoe, it's much too risky that the...

I bought my Huki OC-1 outrigger without ever having paddled one or even seen one in person. And I drove 10,000 miles round trip to pick it up in Sacramento and then "paddle" it back to Connecticut over seven weeks while living out of my 1997 Dodge van conversion. I indeed bought it because I did...

Here I am paddling upstream on the Lewis River in Yellowstone to Shoshone Lake in the summer of 2004 in my custom-made Huki V1-B, which I had just bought in Sacramento, California, and was "paddling back" to Connecticut all over the USA and southern Canada. Curious and fascinated park rangers...

Wonderful trips and reports, Erica and Aslowhand. Thanks so much. It warms my heart that this site can facilitate exotic canoe trips for a gal from Florida with a guy from Switzerland. It makes even the horror of fund raising "worth it."

Mike Galt and Deborah Welbes demonstrating some flat water tandem canoe moves in the late 1980s or early 1990s in Lotus Egret at a place unknown. The pictures were sent to me by @charlie wilson, as I recall, and I believe @stevet has similar pix of himself et ux., also in a Lotus Egret.

Me, in August 1985 or 1986, paddling and rolling my Perception Gyramax C-1 at our family lake cottage on North Pond, Woodstock, Maine, which is about five miles from the Maine Canoe Symposium in Bryant Pond. I had just learned to roll from Clarke Outdoors in Cornwall, Connecticut, and committed...

A friend from the Connecticut chapter of the Appalachian Mountain Club, Jan Larkin, paddling The Dumplings rapid on the West River, Vermont, sometime in the mid-1980s, in a Blue Hole Sunburst canoe.

Me, in March of 1982, on some reservoir lake in northern California in my 17' Old Town OTCA, which was the second canoe of the 18 I've bought, using a 57" Old Town Beavertail and Old Town life jacket. I have no idea who took the picture, although it may have been my father who visited us once...

Bill Swift showing off a purple "forged carbon" DF 15: