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The Canadian version seems to be built by someone with connections to BB. It is blade heavy. Ono offered to build one. Gearing up to produce them will cost near $10K, and the market is mostly folks who love wood and that tenuous connection with the Voyageurs, the lowest paid transport workers...

Pretty marginal bottom, if continuing success is any indication?

Combi canoe were popular for about a decade before the recent turn of the century. Interest has lagged because they function better for dealers than customers. If a big guy can solo the hull it will not accommodate two of him tandem. If fine for two compact guys tandem it will prove too large...

The trouble with tump lines is that we are force loading our foreheads; that force transferring to the neck. That is fine and dandy if the user does neck bridges on a regular basis. Some AM football oriented gyms have a Nautilus machine that trains the neck. The larger Q is who among us...

TS 58 WOOD TRIM REPLACEMENT A. Acquire or manufacture Inwales and Outwales of adequate length, rabbet preferred on Inwale. Discard wood with large knots or excessive crossgrain. B. Swing an arc from bow or stern to each seat and thwart bolt hole. Make a sketch noting the...

TechSheet 53 LAMINATE REPAIR Construction and repair techniques of fiberglass, Kevlar and carbon canoe hulls are similar. These suggestions cover damage where the laminate is stressed or broken. FRACTURES If the hull has been severely deflected the inter-laminar bonds may be...

TechSheet 52 GEL COAT REPAIR Gel‑coat is a glossy abrasion resistant finish protecting the paddlecraft's structure by absorbing shock and scratches. It should be cleaned regularly to maintain appearance and prolong useful life. Frequent 303 treatments keep your boat bright and slippery...

SUP paddling is good for the sport. It teaches bunches of bored kayakers the mechanics of the single blade paddling with torso rotation from the toenails up. In the end, when those folks retire their bikinis and sit down they will be canoe paddlers with better mechanics than most of the current...

I've tripped in Flash in moving water with pour over ledges, etc with a five gallon carboy of water beside my 165 pound self and camp gear in the boat for the five day event.

Location, integral or wood rails and color would allow us to help.

Wow, a two-fer! 250 cm doubles will be used with a very horizontal stroke, which is inefficient, as it slows cadence and induces yaw. The inwater recovery, when done properly to minimize yaw, is inefficient because it increases drag and slows cadence. We've strayed from discussing Prospector...

While we're on the topic of sin and impropriety, someone should take that dang IN-Water Recovery to task. It significantly increases drag by adding ~ 300 square inches of surface to the hulls ~2000 sq in, the increased velocity further increasing drag. If not precisely controlled, it induces...

The closure of a mid sized sub contractor has nothing to do with Swift. Composite Swifts are made exclusively in the Swift plant in South River Ontario by bacon and maple syrup eating Canadians. It is, for the paddlesports industry, a large and quite frenetic building where liquid smoke was...

Clipper's Prospector 14 is pretty deep, 15" amidships, 20" in both stems. Nova's 16 tandem is 21/15/21, Swift's 16 specs 21/13.5/21. As Clipper does not post rocker specs it's hard to guess there but images do not indicate traditional rocker. Merrimack's Baboosic is a Prospector shape...

While originally made in canvas on wood construction as river freighters, kinda deepish with 3" of symmetrical rocker, there are now an infinite variety of composite Prospector shapes; some with excessive cheek or stem hollow some without, some tumblehomed, some straight sided, some with lots of...

Kim didn't learn her physics or bio-mechanics from me. Wider blades, extending farther from the shaft, will reach farther under the boat, but that sort of stroke, with top hand extending well abeam/outside the shaft hand will result in a C stroke under the boat. That C stroke is...

I love short class, 16'6" down river racers. They are compact cruisers that maneuver; tandem cruisers. From my chair, remembering I had a shop that carried Mad Rivers, was a principal at Bell and consult for Swift, the Jim Henry designed Malecite was one of the best of it's day as the David Yost...

Combi Canoes work fine for dealers but not for individuals. The dealer sells them to compact couples as tandems, big guys as solos. Everyone's happy; however. If the combi fits a couple of smaller folk tandem, neither one of them will have the weight/reach/power to solo the device. And, if it...

As I age I'm a big fan of composite because it's lighter and, due to hull stiffness and skin condition, faster. I maintain a comparative dimensional chart listing of available solo canoes, having length, width and rocker listed clarifies thoughts a little; will gladly forward the electronic file...

Cheek, or Hollow is a relic of construction materials unfortunately carried through to composite construction. When widish wooden planks are bent from ~ flat along the hulls bottom to vertical orientation at the stems, a depression forms aft of the stem. The handed down theory is the hollow...