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Well, he apparently portaged Antigua. Here's how: If you watch his FB video, you'll see his long-shafted paddle is a bent shaft that looks to be about 5°-7°. I also would have expected his canoe to have a rudder, but I don't see one in any of the FB pictures. His canoe is the same kind of...

Administration Notice: As I've edited the OP of this thread to state: I've disabled the Daisy L. account because of suspicions that it is a foreign spam, bot or AI account. If I'm wrong, Daisy L. is invited to contact me via the "contact us" link at the bottom of the page and convince me...

"One of the hallmarks of FreeStyle is efficiency and the conservation of your energy. The first step, in most cases, is to efficiently get the boat moving, forward or reverse. . . . The energy that you expended, putting the canoe into motion is now transferred to the canoe as its momentum...

"There have always been ignorant, unethical and apathetic campers wandering the woods. But if you’re feeling, like my group did, as though there are a lot more of them lately, you’re right." "Now I’m hearing some paddlers talk about the need for a mandatory backcountry etiquette course taken...

“I crossed the ocean to see the power that makes the world go round,” the 44-year-old athlete wrote on Facebook on Sunday, having reached Antigua on Saturday evening (Hungarian time) after 5,123 kilometers, and remarked that this was his second ocean crossing in the world, after his 77-day trip...

Daisy, please carefully read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Also, because canoeing is a geographic sport, please add your location to the Account Details page in your profile, which will cause it to show under your avatar as a clickable map link. What section of the Willamette did...

Aside from its pronunciation, the meaning of portage in French is "a painful and poorly planned canoe route."

I prefer to use Adirondacks terminology and use the word "carry" rather than "portage". If I do use it, I say POUR-tij, your second choice. I also note that dictionaries must now use the syllabic stress apostrophe differently from the way they did 70 years ago when I learned about it. The...

Yes, today is National Vietnam War Veterans Day as well as International Mermaid Day. Since the former may be more important to some members here, I've just changed the daily Happy Day notice to the former from the latter. (I usually rotate them in alternate years.)

Here's his video on the 18' D4 canoe from Savage River. All these long, fast CanAm canoe hulls would have their speed clocks cleaned by a Pacific Rim solo canoe hull, which is also far longer, narrower, more stable, more turnable (because highly rockered), more surfable, more single-sided...

That's intolerable. We were professionally moved eight times, from coast-to-coast and top-to-bottom around the USA, when I worked for the IBM Corporation, and don't recall any significant damage. You may not be able to fully replace broken heirlooms or memories, but it sounds as if you should...

How did a white dog get the name Shadow? Did he ever go in your canoe? At the risk of derailing Alan's derailing, did you end up bringing your canoe (back to) to Pender Island?

Kaz has been making his Millbrook canoes in curly, swirly, enfurly psychedelic skin coat colors for decades. They are very popular color choices. https://www.facebook.com/p/MILLBROOK-BOATS-100063467503627/

I've been way behind in keeping up with this thread, but I love the Agatha Christie plot twist. The next time I'm in Pennsylvania I'll hire you to paint my Magic Bus van, which no longer looks as sharp as my avatar. You can have 30 minutes for color application with fast drying psychedelic...

Stephanie, where do you backpack and canoe?

I just read this thread for the first time ever and don't really know what the topic is, but @LostCaper's 2019 post reminds me of my enjoyable times 20-25 years ago when I was one of the original and most prolific posters on TractorByNet, posting as "glennmac". I recall when one of the members...

Locked. I can't be bothered wasting my and Alan's time with any more partial and full post deletions of political comments about tariffs.

@Microtus, congrats on all your new equipment. You seem to be going about your acquisitions very intelligently. Let us know how the various items work out for you over time. Old timers, newbies and lurkers alike are all always interested in getting new opinions on canoes and canoeing gear.

"It's official: Finland just claimed the title of Earth's happiest country for the eighth year running." "Some 188,000 lakes stretch across the land like mirrors catching the sun." "A road trip through Finnish Lakeland is the ideal way to experience it. Covering over 21,000 square miles, the...