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I find that very difficult to believe and would request that you support that claim with authority and evidence. The BBC article linked in the OP repeatedly calls the ramp a "fish pass" and the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) report specifically found that: "The group did not heed a...

Interesting take. One might add that this danger increases when that leader has a profit motive to put total novices on dangerous waterways. People can get injured or die in lots of freak ways on canoe trips, long or short. However, I find it totally incredible, and indeed the height of...

Exactly. The founder of the British Royal Canoe Club in 1866 and the American Canoe Association in 1880 was a (ta da!) Scottish lawyer named John MacGregor, who famously paddled his Rob Roy canoe all over Europe in the mid-19th century. It looked like this: As for modern and world-famous...

We've discussed this many times, and what are now called pack canoes have been made in the USA and Canada for more than 150 years by Henry Rushton and others, many with decks. Because the hulls and seating positions of canoes and kayaks can be minimally different to identical, I've also said...

I own two paddles with the same logo. Here's one: They are Camp Paddles, made by Al Camp of Otsego, NY. Al made bent shaft paddles from the 1960s until he retired and sold his paddle business to the Fox family in 1996, who continued the business renamed as Fox Worx. The second generation of...

"For summer 2025, [Kyle] Parker quit his job to paddle across the continental United States from the northwesternmost point at Cape Flattery, Washington to the southeasternmost point at Miami, Florida. He departed on the journey on April 29, 2025." "Parker’s route will take him from the Salish...

One can always learn new things from our resident solo stern paddlers — @lowangle al and @Robin (sometimes) and our logo guy (always).

Ah, now I get it. However, as Idaho Steve points out, you will not have any foward momentum as you cross the eddy line into the current. But if it works . . . . That's how I would envisage breaking out of an eddy with a pole—just like with a paddle into an an upstream ferry. Power out of the...

Well, if those two guys say that for solo poling, then that's the answer as far as I'm concerned, never having had personal experience poling in current. As a paddler, I rarely go slower than the current in a river except when back ferrying. In most tandem canoes, the stern is heavier than the...

I've only poled in flat water—lakes and swamps—and, if wind was not a factor, being somewhat bow light seemed obvious to me, so I could easily maneuver the bow direction and make sharp turns. Poling into strong wind, which I don't recall ever doing, I would obviously go bow heavy as with...

I'm a bit unclear, Rick, about how the stern crosses the eddy line before the bow when breaking out of an eddy, which would be quite unusual when using a paddle. Is breaking out of an eddy with a pole a different technique? Tsuga, if Rick's been poling upstream, he may very well be in a...

The Caper is not nearly as flared as Galt's earlier Dandy, BJX and Egret, and was possibly his least flared canoe. It's also the first commercially available canoe I'm aware of to have sharply "tucked in" gunwales, which don't protrude over the side of the hull. It's certainly not Yost's earlier...

The owner of a UK paddleboard company, which could just as easily have been a canoe company, was convicted of gross negligence manslaughter and imprisoned for 10.5 years in Wales for failing to warn four now-dead customers of the hazards of a low head dam (weir). Here's a short AP article...

I'm going to move the interesting but tangential discussion of the Savage River Blackwater solo canoe to its own thread HERE. Continue on with the original general topic.

I'm going to move the discussion of the Savage River Blackwater solo canoe to its own thread—this one.

This is a very different kind of picture and I like it a lot, but the text looks like phone typos and has puzzled me. Is it supposed to read "Cabin and canoes at"? If so, I'll fix it.

From the Wayback Machine, here is that essay in its original 1978 Wilderness Camping magazine format complete with pictures, which I've posted before: https://web.archive.org/web/20000903010940/http://www.moorecanoeing.com/sportcanoeing/solomystique.html I recall the same information from...

This 1981 Canoe Magazine essay by Mike Galt is a poetic paean to solo canoeing, replete with many classic Galt-isms: "Solo. Alone. But never lonely." "The solo canoe: a light, slender form in utter symphony with wind and wave." "An activity where men and women are equal. On the solo path...

My view is that there is no such thing as an ascertainable a priori "market" for a used canoe, unlike commodities that are sold in the millions every day such as stocks, bonds and real estate. Perhaps I should clarify by saying that I don't think either canoe has an unreasonable asking price...

Bpr, thanks much for sharing your project and pictures. Have you decided which of your gear will go in the large wannigan and which will go in something else?