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No disagreement there. And I note that if you start with bow down trim, the moment you apply thrust, the bow will raise. So, there's that. I gotta get to the desktop and dig up a video ...

When it comes to poling upstream though, it's not that cut & dried. Few of us are going to approach hull speed in a recreational canoe, even accounting for opposing current. In features where river flow exceeds 3-4 mph, fall rate begins to dictate what you can get away with doing with the bow...

That is correct. The pushier the current you're going against, the lighter the bow needs to be.

I want to say it works best with the vee and least with the flat, but it's been so long since I compared all three that I don't feel confident in that statement. The shallow arch canoes I've had were always the most forgiving and stable in the rough, so that's what I've gravitated to. Your...

This is where aggressive healing works wonders. If you're getting blown out to your left, pick up your right foot and really edge the boat, and most times the bow will swing right up.

Well it's not as bad as I thought it might be. The skid plates have been shaved down so that they're very thin. Don't know for sure what's under there, but they're very smooth and don't appear to be hiding a lot of damage. At any rate, they don't look like they're going to be coming off, and...

When I say "restoration", that's what I mean. :D

Happens to me all the time. :D My lightest aluminum pole weighs about 3 lbs. Also my lightest wood pole (the "Home Depole") is about the same. The trick today seems to be finding a good straight grained doug fir closet rod. I have not seen one of those for several years now. I have one I made...

He's not available to show it until later today. ;) It's been a while since I've done a restoration. From where I sit, this one looks like it could be fun. It's not like I need another flat water solo, but who knows? Maybe at least I can save a boat and compare with what I have (Clipper Solitude).

This is the boat. Definitely going to need work, but maybe not too much. I'm going to see it in person this evening. https://www.facebook.com/share/1BEqma8sYT/

I've been trying to get people interested here for years. No takers, although a few have given it a brief try. Good luck.

Good advice.

I see one for sale here cheap. Possibly a fixer-upper. Haven't had a look at it yet, but I wonder if it's worth my time.

Wild guess - Charlie and Mike?

Fun video! My favorite kind of paddling too.

I'm a side sleeper also. Same experience with the Hennessy Hammock as described above. I get the best sleep in it, but a lot of places I go lack trees big enough to hang. For the last several years now, I've been sleeping on the Sea to Summit Ether Lite. I sleep as comfortably on that as I do...

We stumble upon a lot of mine artifacts around here. Most recent for me is one I should have noticed years ago but spotted it from the water only last summer. Twisted remains of a mine cart track coming out of the mountainside where I had never hear of a mine being there. Thought I had a photo...

Hey, where did you get this list? It's been driving me nuts trying to figure out why some are red and some are blue. I can't establish a pattern.

@Microtus - you had me scratching my head for a while there because the Yuba in Idaho is a small stream that flows into the middle fork of the Boise near Atlanta, nowhere near highway 20 - and I never heard of that dam. :D I should have known to look at the Yuba in California. Fun story though.

I have to challenge the idea that a skeg will automatically add efficiency to a canoe. I call on my sailing dinghy experience for this. When heading dead downwind in a light breeze, we retract the swing keel to reduce drag. If I wait until I'm already otherwise maxed before I raise the keel...