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During and after at various places along the river. Narrated.

The Cheat River suffered a 100 year flood on Election Day 1985, devastating Albright, West Virginia, which is the put-in town for the Cheat Canyon run. The river rose 30 feet with a flow of almost 200,000 cfs in the narrow canyon. The Connecticut AMC whitewater club paddled the Cheat Canyon...

For those who are not familiar, the standard C stroke is a forward stroke that starts out with a draw at the beginning, before the power pull phase, and ends with a J pry. Seen from overhead, the blade would move in a curve, shaped sort of like a shallow C. The initial draw and ending J pry both...

I don't think I've ever seen the approach of a flash flood river bore like this. Thanks for posting, MrPoling.

Everyone I know with an SRT is primarily a kneeler. I don't know anyone who primarily uses the SRT as a sitting canoe. It was designed as a fast Solo River Tripper canoe, and river canoes are best controlled from the kneeling position. Since you say you're primarily a sitter, that's why I don't...

Lots of canoes to stir up the brain. As the owner for 16 years of a Hemlock SRT, which is a high volume 15' solo and my favorite tripping canoe, I wouldn't recommend it for your stated preferences. It has a bottom that is more rounded than the standard shallow arch or elliptical bottoms...

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In the following article and video, Marc Ornstein describes and illustrates how to control off-side yaw with a Deep C forward stroke, which is completed with just a mild (or even no) J. The Deep C can also be used to turn the canoe to the on-side. ARTICLE: Improve Your Grade. You can do...

I've never paddled one, so take my observations with that it mind. Well, you know you're not going to be kneeling off that tractor seat. Maybe it's possible but the canoe is designed for seated paddling, primarily sit & switch. So what are you going to do mainly with this canoe other than...

Kneelers kneel. Before coming to my senses via instruction from Bob Foote, I began whitewater paddling in northern California in 1980 with a 9 foot (108 inch, 275 cm) double paddle kneeling from a central seat in my 15" deep Mad River Explorer. I could not have cleared the gunwales with comfort...

Japanese scientists made dugout canoe using only stone age tools, such as stone axes and fire, to test whether the Pacific Ocean could have been crossed by dugout paddlers, without maps, as long as 50,000 years ago. They succeeded in their 140 mile test paddle across strong Pacific currents...

Rant Warning: People prior to the mid-20th century did not dress most places in public like the casual slobs we are now. Suits and ties for men and long dresses and skirts for women were virtually ubiquitous, even for many sporting activities. Videos of men in suits and ties at baseball games...

Not only colorized but with added, phony sound effects and music.

Using ice hooks:

Cravated coxcombs, lounging ladies in courting canoes, long paddles with beaver blades. Some of the solo paddlers look very skilled with Canadian-type strokes, and one at the very end proves that Omer Stringer, 30 years later, was not the first canoeist to paddle solo heeled to the gunwale...

True for most of us, but some folks might do lots of things to get Charlize Theron in their canoe. However, those folks apparently need to be 26-years-old according to recent news.

Mickey Rooney at age 12 in 1932 at Sutro Baths in San Francisco.

Australian aborigine in dugout. Not my photo, obviously. Hunting? Fishing?

https://www.justjared.com/2025/03/04/charlize-theron-is-handcuffed-in-taron-egertons-canoe-while-filming-apex-movie-in-australia/

https://paddlingmag.com/stories/news-events/algonquin-storms-rattle-campers-june-2025/ "For many campers on June 21, 2025 this nightmare was a reality when a sudden storm ripped through southeastern Ontario trapping and injuring campers throughout the region. More than 15,000 were without...