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To clarify, @ABT is asking whether anyone has experience or thoughts about using the inflatable kayak-type of thigh straps while seated in an open canoe to enhance stability and control. All serious whitewater paddlers in dedicated whitewater canoes (and kayaks) use thigh straps or thigh blocks...

Riverbasin, welcome to first post site membership! Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Also, because canoeing is a geographic sport, please add your location to the...

On May 11, 2025, after a week of heavy rain, which filled up the Patterson Great Swamp basin, legends tell the earnest story of "The Old Man and the Kee." Nestled in the Harlem Valley and covering over 6,000 acres in New York’s eastern Putnam and Dutchess Counties is one of the largest...

The spider quiz linked in the OP was rather medically technical. I did poorly. Aside from that, spiders have been a fairly significant phobia of mine around water. That's because when I was a young boy spending all my summers on a lake in Maine, we always had these big, ugly dock spiders under...

Put-in at the Patterson Great Swamp in New York after a week of rain. This will be one photo of a day trip report I'll post later.

True. And to stop the unbearable behavior, I wouldn't blame the bear if he used it.

The U.S. freestyle movement, which also incorporates "Canadian style" solo paddling in tandem canoes, has been very influential in stimulating open canoe interest in Germany. This is the annual Kringelfieber freestyle gathering in 2022. The video has interesting overhead drone shots of the canoe...

Matt, welcome to site membership. It would be helpful if you stated a price, the location of the paddles, and whether they are new or used.

Oorah!

@Tryin', thanks for taking the time to post recped's messages and map views.

In almost the same location, Tiger Creek (canal) and Lake Kissimmee, a woman kayaker was bitten on the arm by a gator in March: https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2025/03/04/alligator-bites-kayaker-on-lake-wales-tiger-creek-canal/81336827007/ April begins the breeding season for...

Modernity, our covert world of plastic, strikes again.

Welcome, again, samb! It's so interesting to have canoeists from outside North America chipping in. Are you a WCHA member or do you know the UK's Nick Dennis, who is on the WCHA board with me? Also, did you make any of those paddles hanging on the wall?

Wow, Al, that's unique! Upon first glance I thought it was some sort of barometric, medical isolation, or even a prison chamber. Very clever. It will beat setting up a tent in the dark, in the rain, or when you're just tired. There's quite a rear overhang with the canoe, but I suppose it would...

The Boston Chapter of the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) was famous for decades for lashing two 6'x2" planks of ethafoam under the inwales on both insides of their whitewater open canoes. Maybe they still do. This was in addition to end flotation bags. The purpose of the side flotation is to...

Even though it was literally hard to see him in the veritable monsoon he was test paddling in, Steve demonstrated what I call good "stomach crunch" power technique with the shorter bent shaft. That is, where the forward stroke power is imparted not so much with an upper arm push, or a lower arm...

Patrick Moore, who knew Mike Galt personally and professionally probably as well as anyone in the 1970s and early 80s, wrote a long obituary-bio-tribute article about Mike Galt's life after he died, at least part of which was published in Paddler magazine. Patrick's full bio used to be available...

@lu22, congrats on your purchase. Glad you like the canoe. $1,000 sounds familiar. What year is the canoe? It will be very helpful to you, and more generally to searchers and researchers in the future, to post your problem area pictures, your advice-seeking questions, and ultimately your...

@markchabak or @Robin, did anything happen with this offered canoe?

It was pointed out to me by DM that I had labeled my photo so as to give away the answer to two of the five quiz questions. So I changed the label. I have no comment on Alan's answers because he is disqualified from the quiz by virtue of his "super" powers. I will say that the guy with the...