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I thought of you, Steve, and our conversations on boat specs and poling. Wide enough to pole? 😁

Wellllll......I have to eat some crow now, and thank the heavens for a supportive wife who has not made me start sleeping in the boat stable - er garage - yet. Yesterday I brought home a Royalex Morningstar that popped up locally at a very good price. It has noticeably blunter stems than the...

When I got the dog and my kayak was no longer an option, a couple folks recommended an SUP instead of a canoe. Others have since recommended an SUP when they see me standing up in my canoe. I chose a canoe because I felt like it's more versatile - paddle comfortably in a wider temp range and...

Are none of Swift's layers considered whitewater capable?

Ppine, I agree on the one hand, but then again I try to trip in wilderness-esque places in part because I want to be off grid. Generally I agree most of us could use less screentime. Traversing the east coast, Intracoastal Waterway, Mississippi etc seem a very different kind of trip, and one...

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Kudos to the folks rewilding their yards! Ecologist Doug Tallamy had an impressive statistic, which I'll attempt to paraphrase with moderate accuracy - the acreage of lawn in the US exceeds the acreage of just about all the national parks put together. And kudos to Glenn for keeping the lights...

Thanks! I actually emailed him last night. The Coho doesn't sound too much bigger than the Souhegan. I imagine rocker and sharpness of the stem are among the key differences.

Great pics! I was up in the Hoel/Slang stretch in September, and made use of campsite recommendations from @Patrick Corry on another CT thread (thanks!). A memorable type 2 fun trip in Sept 2019 was likewise to St Regis Pond. We had 2 nights and 3 days. Day 2 we were windbound on St Regis...

"According to Rick Slatten, captain of the St. Louis County Rescue Squad who responded to the incident, of the over 500 water fatalities in the squad’s history, less than three percent were wearing life jackets." The article linked to had more details from the victims - one of them knew the...

Great break down, thanks Steve! The Souhegan does sound like your NC - lots of rocker and very blunt in the stems. My suspicion is that the Heron (an oil-canning, slow-paddling boat) actually helps climb a straight chute because the ends are pointier and there's less rocker than the Souhegan...

Very interesting. I think I don't have enough time in boat to notice the differences to such a degree yet. I certainly do notice differences. I think there's a bit of a feedback loop where more experience makes the differences more noticeable, and but a more experienced poler (or paddled)...

Alas, I work M-F by and large. And further alas, turns out I'm unavailable this weekend. Perhaps Sat, Nov 2 if the weather holds? Or are you already gone by then?

I'm not sure the Phoenix would ever be a good boat for poling rocky moving water....and not sure I aim to find out unless I can borrow someone else's IXP haha. But, maybe if I get more poling time in it.... The Souhegan and Morningstar were both attempts to find the lightest possible boat to...

I'd certainly be interested! A Maine guide in a poling clinic said one of the best ways to learn is watching a good poler. I certainly can't claim that mantle, but I bet watching someone else pole would help as you suggested. I'm also about an hour and a half from there and would be glad to...

Nice, I've done a couple day outings on the upper Delaware around Callicoon. It's a very long day of driving for me including shuttles....maybe poling up and floating down would make it more palatable, but I can't remember how suitable it really is for poling up there (and of course it's...

I thought it was fine, but then again I have years of paddling tandems backwards solo with less than ideal trim. It's never great in wind and it never tracks that well, which is why i finally broke down and got a real solo, a NS Phoenix, a couple years back. (Recently I've done a little...

Same. I think I remember seeing Rock in some smaller boats in a video or two, maybe 14.5 or 15, but yeah he seems to use 16ers a lot. Conover says don't go below 17ft, but again different styles and different objectives. I imagine a 17 might be unwieldy with no ballast, but more importantly...

What boat are you poling, Al? I also starting paddling flatwater standing up, including upstream on the Oswegatchie. I imagine poling up the Oswegtchie is a heck of lot more efficient than paddling up it, especially in a headwind. What part of the Delware have you been poling on? I also...

A good point in theory, but I wonder how much difference it would make in practice. The rocker is an inch different according to these old specs, but since at this point I'm mostly planning on using the boat for solo day outings, often with pole, sometimes with mutt, it's likely it will be out...