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That's definitely a nice speed increase over the Magic when paddling over distance rather than max sprint. What speeds were you paddling? Did you happen to monitor heart rate as well? Distance always seems to even out speed differences in many boats. Back when I used to train and race regularly...

Yeah, if I was doing a trip with real portaging I wouldn't be a fan of sandal type shoes either. Rob Kesselring, on the other hand, does a lot of tripping and portaging and sandals like that are his go-to. No one else seems to be rushing to emulate him but he likes it. Alan

I just looked at some of their water shoes and from my past experience I think the more open designs look better. The problem I see with the Arroyo is that the cutouts don't go all the way to the foot bed. I can guarantee you rocks and sand will get in the shoe and with those high cutouts you...

I haven't had those specific shoes but I've had shoes of similar design. I'm not a huge fan as rocks always seem to fall through the holes and then it's very difficult or impossible to get them back out. Whenever I wear them in water the inside of the shoe gets packed with sand, rocks, and mud...

No bears here but surprisingly, for the first time in 7 years, the racoons have discovered my bird feeders. They can comfortably sit on the porch railing and pull out handfuls of seed to stuff their face at leisure so I've started bring the feeder in at night. The other evening I forgot and was...

I'm happy to hear Shadow is adjusting well. He certainly seems to be enjoying himself. It's good that he gets along well with other dogs, I've know a few Huskies that didn't. I had assumed he spent most of his time off leash in SK but I hadn't thought about him running off on a whim. Good...

Well, I took those responses from the other thread and started a new one here so you don't have to worry about derailing anything. :) Alan

I wondered about Shadow after I heard you had moved. How is he adjusting? Do all the extra people bother him? And extra dogs? What does he think of the water? Is it hard to get him the exercise he's used to? Does he get as much off-leash time? Not that I don't care about you and Kathleen as...

I tested paddled Dan Cooke's Blackwater at one of his evening paddle get togethers. I really liked the boat but in the limited time I was able to paddle it I did not find it to be much faster than my Bell Magic or strip built Barracuda. I was only measuring max speed because it was a small lake...

Your test panel was tested under tension, which is where fiberglass is the strongest. The results may or may not have been different if you'd flipped it so the fiberglass was under compression. A rock would place the hull under both compression (outside of hull) and tension (inside of hull)...

Did it actually keep them away or did they just attack it instead of you? Alan

Sometimes you just gotta kick yourself when you see a million dollar idea like this and wonder why you didn't think of it first. Alan

I am also highly unlikely to download any files posted on an internet forum. Perhaps you can copy and paste the text from your trip report and post it in full here. Alan

It looks like some of the strips are visible through the coloring. How well did it cover overall? I know I struggled with that when I tried to color a hull. Alan

I don't know that I'd go so far as to say it looks great but I really like it none the less. How rough was the wood surface after getting it wet with unicorn shpit and water? I assume you weren't able to sand the raised grain without the risk of losing color? Did the cloth still lay down ok...

All the power surge paddles I've ever seen say power surge on the sticker. If that was my paddle I'd just add some cloth after sanding away some of the edge to remove the jaggies. Depending how deep the jagged bits are you might be able to just get away with sanding the tip smooth. I've done...

I have as well. I've had a couple ZRE paddles where the grip came apart nicely using a heat gun and I had one where I got it super hot and I still expected something to break before it finally came loose. Alan

I use a Thermarest pad. I don't know if the exact model is still available but it's one of the lightweight and expensive designs. I've been very happy with it. It's very light and compact yet I find it very comfortable. I started with a 20" and upgraded later to a 25" which I like a lot more...

Very nicely done. Better than I've done patching my Zavs. My failures have come from tip wear due to hard paddling up and down shallow gravel bars when training. After a certain amount of wear the tip delaminates. I've wrapped the tips with a couple layers of dynel and that's worn much better...

Nicely done!