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Re Swift screw-in yokes, that's the price one pays for carbon fiber over foam gunwales. Besides, while it's possible, I've never used a clamp-on yoke to flip a wood gunwale canoe onto my shoulders, nor do I recall ever seeing anyone do that. With a heavy canoe, it's much too risky that the...

I bought my Huki OC-1 outrigger without ever having paddled one or even seen one in person. And I drove 10,000 miles round trip to pick it up in Sacramento and then "paddle" it back to Connecticut over seven weeks while living out of my 1997 Dodge van conversion. I indeed bought it because I did...

Here I am paddling upstream on the Lewis River in Yellowstone to Shoshone Lake in the summer of 2004 in my custom-made Huki V1-B, which I had just bought in Sacramento, California, and was "paddling back" to Connecticut all over the USA and southern Canada. Curious and fascinated park rangers...

Wonderful trips and reports, Erica and Aslowhand. Thanks so much. It warms my heart that this site can facilitate exotic canoe trips for a gal from Florida with a guy from Switzerland. It makes even the horror of fund raising "worth it."

Mike Galt and Deborah Welbes demonstrating some flat water tandem canoe moves in the late 1980s or early 1990s in Lotus Egret at a place unknown. The pictures were sent to me by @charlie wilson, as I recall, and I believe @stevet has similar pix of himself et ux., also in a Lotus Egret.

Me, in August 1985 or 1986, paddling and rolling my Perception Gyramax C-1 at our family lake cottage on North Pond, Woodstock, Maine, which is about five miles from the Maine Canoe Symposium in Bryant Pond. I had just learned to roll from Clarke Outdoors in Cornwall, Connecticut, and committed...

A friend from the Connecticut chapter of the Appalachian Mountain Club, Jan Larkin, paddling The Dumplings rapid on the West River, Vermont, sometime in the mid-1980s, in a Blue Hole Sunburst canoe.

Me, in March of 1982, on some reservoir lake in northern California in my 17' Old Town OTCA, which was the second canoe of the 18 I've bought, using a 57" Old Town Beavertail and Old Town life jacket. I have no idea who took the picture, although it may have been my father who visited us once...

Bill Swift showing off a purple "forged carbon" DF 15:

What @stevet says but, yes, they are also flotation pods. In conjunction with holding the tracks for the sliding seat perfectly parallel, they cause the gunwales in the center of the canoe to be parallel. With those parallel and "tucked in" gunwales, you can execute a very vertical stroke close...

Here's a video of a guy in Nicaragua showing the tin (outrigger) canoe he built:

It's interesting that the museum narrator states that the emergence of television in western Australia in the 1960s contributed to the diversion of kids away from making "tinnies." In this internet and social media age of perpetual staring at pixilated screens, no wonder kids are no longer...

"Enjoy our list of 101 of the best paddling, canoeing, kayaking, river, lake, ocean and adventure quotes to make you laugh, ponder and inspire you to get outdoors and seek your next great paddling journey!" https://paddlingmag.com/stories/culture/kayaking-quotes/ Some of these quotes are...

I get the impression that a lot of paddlers are not familiar with using the palm roll for forward strokes and turns such as the Christie. In the following video, Ray Goodwin does a good job of illustrating how the palm roll is used in conjunction with the silent, totally in-water Indian stroke...

Just click on any of the red name links in the Wikipedia article and you will find out why they are in red.

Erica and everyone: Trip reports from countries other than the USA and Canada go in the Canoe Destinations and Routes forum. The forum content description specifically reads: "Good places to paddle for a day or month, close to home or far away. Trip reports from countries other than USA and...

Erica, you seem to be getting Aslowhand to take pictures of more Swiss waterbodies than usual. Thanks for posting them for our viewing jealousy. What are you doing in Switzerland? Vacation? Mycophilia?

I've had at least 12 solo canoes since the early 80s. NONE of those canoes has ever had a permanent portage yoke because such a yoke would interfere with a properly positioned central seat. Hence, I've ALWAYS had a detachable yoke of some kind for all of these solo canoes, including my most...

I removed one word from the profanity filter a while ago. However, that doesn't mean all heck has to break loose about using it.