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Craig and Sue are building their superlative canoe paddles again and feature same at www.quimbywooddesign.com. Check out the site, order several. Actually, www.quimbywooddesigns.com

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...

I was in a canoe yard last week and got to ogle a couple of 16 ft Prospectors. One was Vee bottomed, had hard chines, no tumblehome, excessive cheek and the traditional 3" rocker well carried into the center; designer unknown. The other, a Yost design, featured an elliptical bottom, minimal...

I was in a canoe yard last week and got to ogle a couple of 16 ft Prospectors. One was Vee bottomed, had hard chines, no tumblehome, excessive cheek and the traditional 3" rocker well carried into the center; designer unknown. The boat yard guy claimed it was tippy slow and didn't maneuver very...

Souris River makes decent working boats, adding a fourth layer of Kev to increase longevity. They are not masterpieces of design and so are without differential rocker and tumblehome. They are not current state of the manufacturing art; they are RES hand wet out and wet bagged, with cross ribs...

I agree with Rippy. Consider what a square stern will do to length/width ratio, which is a rough approximation of tracking ability more properly calculated as Block Co-Efficient. Forward efficiency, best calculated as Prismatic Co-Efficient, also suffers grievously. Then calculate the...

Canoe Imports, 1203 Williston Rd, South Burlington, VT. 802.651.8760. Steve Brownlee

There are several dichotomies in pack canoes, the most obvious between minimalist hulls verse more rugged and comfortably outfitted trippers. Another split is between tumblehomed verse flare sided cross sections. As of this note, Mad River's Serenade, Old Town's Next, Placid entire line and...

I've six of the things, mostly displacement boards which track better and are faster than the surfing types. Max speed is above 4 mph, the longer 14 foot boards not showing the expected 1/2 mph increase over the 12.5s. I suspect the speed limitation is cadence, the long, ~6 ft paddles cannot...

OP is at the upper shoulder of the bell curve on paddler size, and if soloing a Prospector, needs have a good J stroke. For streams and rivers he'd probably appreciate symmetrical rocker, like the big P. Colden's WildFire and NorthStar's Phoenix are among the few dedicated solos that fill that...

Alright, a new posting for Pete and something I forgot to mention for everyone else. I do not know a thing about TwinTex but do know that every balsa core I have ever seen was rotten to the core / in the core. I suppose if I had to try to fix a TT hull I'd rough sand the TT, clean with acetone...

Structural foam for bottoms is normally <1cm thick, remembering that the strength of the core increases with the square of the thickness. Cores need their sides beveled to allow fabric to cover smoothly without voids, and rib tops need similar treatment. Looking back, WeNoNah stopped using ribs...

Allan and Jim; Jim is laminating on a Male mold, so the first, Kevlar, layer down will be inside when the initial three layer laminate comes off the mold. With core and inner glass layer it will be more or less a four layer hull, all five parts, including the core, everything pretty much where...

There are four kinds of Kevlar, 49 and 149, 29 and 129. The Kevlar used in bulletproof vests and fireproof clothing, 29 and 129, can be colored but do not laminate well and should not be used in composites. Maximum recommended composite K29 content is 25%, which describes Bell's, Northstar's and...

It's neat to acquire and read the old timey literature. Cal was pretty dated when published in the middle of the last century, his work similar to Bradford Angier's. He didn't include his contemporary Omer Stringer's skills in W/C Canadian Tandems and He didn't seem inclined to include any USCA...

The Sealect product does not have the heavy flange?

Oh; you know, Flash is great for attaining moving water because the bow rocker allows maneuverbility. Less rocker encourages the bow to lodge against current and makes for a frustrating day. It seems straight blades function best for kneeling paddlers; bents for sitting ones due mostly to the...

Steve Skinner is a boathauler who can solve your problems; find him at steve@shipyoutkayak.com.

We tried to improve things at Bell Canoe by slotting more rot resistant walnut decks, but condensed moisture still ran down the underside of the inwale and puddled at the deck tip, leading to eventual rot after a decade or so. At Placid we had a very positive opening at the sub deck tip before...

I have seen carbon canoe tanks bulge and suck, but there is more solar gain with a black body and the whole reason for carbon is that thinner and lighter is better. I wouldn't expect strippers to deform, and one probably can't achieve a waterproof glass seal around that edge anyway. A less...