Search results

My grandpa said never to take offense, especially if intended, so I'll pass on a few absurd insertions, above. From more rational comments, I'm not sure the OP intends to sit low with a double blade, sit higher with a bent or kneel with a straight blade. This will surely effect hull width...

The original Pack Canoe was the Adirondack Raider, used to poach trout and venison from private estates. In ~1880 a small, tubercular guy asked Rushton to build an absolutely minimal boat he could carry. Some builders, notably Adirondack Canoe and Kayak, Hemlock, Hornbeck, Savage and Slipstream...

Mike Galt and Harry Roberts were close friends for much of their paddling/publishing lives. Harry made both Mike and Pat famous in the pages of Wilderness Camping, kinda selecting those two from the FreeStyle Community to build the story around. It was Harry's pen, or type writter that "Made"...

Funny how emotion plays with data over time. Mike was the most visible proponent of the Lutra but Frank Hosford, his partner at Lotus, clearly stated it was a design done over time by a group of paddlers including Mike. The claw tip helped the timid get their catch into the water more...

It's a Black / Gold Bell boat so is valuable enough to deserve decent treatment. I'd re-rail it; rails of similar profile available from Ed's and Essex.

The stroke needn't and shouldn't be longer, at least aft of the paddler's knee. That misdirects force in an upward direction and pulls the stern down into the water. That said, Cricket paddles are wonderful. I use the Gemini.

If you're moving the seat: Symmetrical kneeling solo's usually have the seats front bar positioned 4-5 inches aft of longitudinal center. Sit down solos place the front bar at center. Hull asymmetry, usually Swede-Form where the hull is more full aft of center will move the seat aft some...

First we need discuss your stance in the canoe. If you kneel you want a straight shaft; sitting you'll need a bent. If you do both, well, you need one of each. Top grip and shaft should fill your hands at their angle of repose. If either force expansion or contraction of grip they will encourage...

Black Gold had carbon on the outer skin and bottom football and diamond, tweed, a 3/4 yellow Kevlar 49, 1/4 black Kev 29 weave. All tweed is the Kev Crystal/ Kev Lite layup.

Yeah, but..... Overall length, as measured above, is useless. The WaterLine Length is one of the key determinants of forward speed and tracking. Peregrine has pretty heroic layout at both stems as do several WeNoNah designs; waterline length is, thereby, a significantly smaller number. Stretch...

Dear Mike; My mother is the sole living individual who ever called me Charles, and then only when I was in trouble. I scattered her ashes in '09. Lying? Those are strong and tortable words for a learning amateur to throw at an industry guy with a reputation to maintain. I suppose mom will haunt...

Strange data morphing going on above. ??? Yost has done four, similar, sub sized solo canoes. The first was Vagabond for Curtis, 14.75'X27.5', in 1982. The second was the Swift Loon, 14.5" X28" in '92, followed by The Placid boatworks RapidFire 15'X27.5" in '06 and the Swift Keewaydin 14...

The above two pages include several "inoperative" statements as Nixon described one of his office's claims in 1973. Way more hopes than facts. Kee 15 is narrower than Osprey, hence a smaller boat. Nomad is narrower than the Kee 15, not larger, and no sentient individual would "tweek" a Nomad to...

I'm now 5'8.5", formerly 5'10" tall, so that's what goes on in one's sixties. My straights run 58" plus, because, when kneeling, I use cross strokes and maneuvers. I try to minimize J correction and never use pitched, in-water recoveries because it creates excessive drag and can easily miss...

Well, Dear l"o; The trail to good, mouth filling red's can be circuitious but we need to get started; way more important than this paddling stuff. Start with a RavensWood Merlot, the higher priced the better. After your week of joy we'll take the big step to Zinfandel!

Glenn offers several points of constructive criticism. I should make my annual mention that every interested paddler needs acquire John Winters "Shape of the Canoe", now available as a download. He has condensed several books worth of hydrodynamic knowledge into one small work, and saves us a...

P1 BLADE, BODY, BOAT The Physics of Paddling I March 11 /July 14 1 Blade [the paddle in water] Paddlers transmit body power through the paddle blade to move their boat. As positive pressure is generated on the powerface, partial vacuum is created on the backface, the differential forces...

I agree w/ L'O.... immediately above. Get the tripper, it's a workable late season start to paddling and will float your crew. Then start figuring what might really fit your needs, maybe a moderately priced, even used Kevlar composite or a Wenonah tandem. There will be others succeeding...

The most Seaworthy big boat was the Sawyer 222, a DY design still available, on SO from Swift. MY fav was the Bell NorthWoods, basicallt a 22 with tumblehome and bow rocker, NLS. NorthStar has a straight sided version that comes close for bigger paddlers who do not need the tumblehome. An...

Wenonah's are fine boats. Swift adds extra partial layers, infuses their lamination has an integrel, infused rail system that saves and extra ~ 6 lbs and more focused design. Sure they cost more just like BMWs cost more than Fords. Customers generally start with minimal skills and sensitivity...