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I paddled with a fellow on a multi-day downriver trip who was paddling a Sea Eagle. He said he had used it on Class III water and it had performed well. His was a tandem model in which he had positioned one of the seats centrally for river tripping. He seemed to keep up pretty well in that...

I doubt it. The Summersong has a maximum efficient capacity of only about 200 lbs. With a center depth of only 12 inches, if you put much more than that in it you are going to have very little freeboard. I own a Summersong but would never use it for a 10 day trip.

J stroke with a bent shaft paddle works just fine as above. Cliff Jacobsen maintains the J stroke works better with a bent shaft paddle. I'm not sure about that but it certainly works as well as with a straight shaft. What does not work well with a bent shaft paddle is the stern pry which...

If you decide to go ahead and fiberglass over the damaged hull you want either 4 ounce/square yard or 6 ounce/square yard plain weave fabric and you don't want a tight weave fabric. Tight weave fabrics are more difficult to wet out adequately especially with G Flex epoxy which is more viscous...

G Flex will adhere to exposed ABS foam core just fine. The irregular surface provides for a strong mechanical bond. I have to say that the solid ABS layer that had been exposed looks quite "sick" to me. I don't know if that is a result of photodegredation, some problem at the production...

If your impression is that the hull is basically sound I would fill surface imperfections and paint the hull. I probably would not apply a coat of epoxy to the entire exposed ABS area. Cured epoxy without some type of fiber reinforcement really does not have a lot of strength. I would save...

I would never say that CPR is pointless or not to try it, but I think one has to have realistic expectations regarding likely outcomes. I have had patients brought into emergency departments basically dead on arrival accompanied by bystanders who had attempted CPR and were distraught because...

The recommendation for no rescue breathing CPR is not only because of reluctance of bystanders to perform mouth to mouth resuscitation but also for a couple of other reasons. First, in our modern mobile phone world it is increasingly common for bystanders to receive coaching remotely from a...

Anyone who suffers cardiopulmonary arrest from extreme hypothermia has a nearly zero chance of survival whether CPR is done or not. The success rate of CPR in profound hypothermia is exceedingly low. I doubt that there is enough real world survival data to support a position for or against...

It would only need to dip a millimeter or so in some areas to reach the foam core since the outer solid layer isn't all that thick in many areas and the exposed solid layer of ABS may well have been thinned out as a result of photodegradation. I don't know if it will help but the photo below...

I really don't understand your statement above "The perforations and the dryness of the outer ABS kind of resemble foam core with the way you described it but it is at the literal level or depth of the actual internal foam core. It's still superficial and only dips a little bit.". Looking at...

As for flame oxidation it will modestly enhance bond strength of G Flex to ABS but it is not vital. I have applied skid plates to a bunch of canoes using G Flex without doing this and they have held up fine. All you need to have to do this is one of those torch attachments that screws onto the...

Yes, I have been bemused by the AHA course reversals regarding CPR recommendations. The thing that has struck me is that the instructors were all absolutely certain that their way was the only "right" way to do CPR back then, and are still certain of that today. I guess that is what they have...

The first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh eighth, and tenth photos you posted above all show what appears to me to be perforations through the outer solid layer of ABS of the Royalex exposing the foam core. Most are circular. Some are linear. The foam core of Royalex is also ABS but...

Yes, the third character in the HIN is a Q. DAQ is the manufacturers identification code for Dagger Canoe. It will now come up as Watermark because Dagger was acquired by Watermark so the MIC transferred. And if you look at the video at the 4:10 time mark, you will see a Dagger sticker on the...

Yes, well it is a July 1994 build. Royalex quality was generally still good at that point in time. The boat looks like a 16' Dagger Legend. Not a bad boat at all, but better for river use than flat water use. The holes in the ends of the stems are not stock. They may have been drilled to...

Mike has already given you a rundown on just what Royalex is. I have never seen a Royalex canoe give up its outer vinyl layer so readily and that I think is a cause for concern. I see that the canoe is a Dagger model. Royalex production was discontinued at the end of 2013 but Dagger ceased...

And here is Ray Goodwin's take on when to use the stern pry versus the J stroke. In my view arguing which is better makes no more sense than arguing whether a hammer is better than a screwdriver. You use the stroke that works best for what you need to do at the moment, assuming you have no...

Your point about the need to keep in sync with your bow partner when paddling tandem is very apt. That usually requires the stern paddler to use a rather short J, a pitch stroke, a Canadian stroke, or some blend of the three. If all of the correction takes place during the power phase it...

Skin-coated boats have nothing more than a thin coat of resin covering the structural fabric and that gets abraded off. Once the fabric weave becomes exposed the fibers themselves start to become denuded of the resin matrix. When either the aramid fibers of a skin-coated boat become exposed...