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Glad to learn I was wrong in this speculation. At 33:35 of the following Swift 2025 product launch video, Bill Swift displays and discusses the Flashfire, Wildfire and Starfire, and says the molds of all three are in good shape. Although none is in the current public price list, any of the...

Swifty, I want to swiftly welcome you, your Swift and the Swift River 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...

Jeremy, thanks much for taking the time to film and post that informative video and your narration about your new Swift Dragonfly 15. For future searchers and researchers re the Dragonfly 15, I'm going to post this video also in the long thread about the Dragonfly 15 we've had going elsewhere on...

In another thread, Jeremy Vore (@JV_RedLeafDesigns) posted this video of his first recreational paddle in his new Swift Dragonfly 15. I thought it would be very informative in this thread, too, because Jeremy discusses the features of the canoe and offers comparisons to the original 14'-6"...

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.