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Bill, not sure exactly what you are after. I believe you are doing a segment along the Cannonball-90 original 90 mile route. I have a spread sheet listing Cannonball distances and times (at selected paddle and carrry speeds) between siignificant points on that route. The beginning of the...

Certainly. Not just a tandem C2, but also a C4 and a six-paddler voyageur canoe. When we paddle the unofficial "Cannonball-90", the entire Adirondack 90-mile route all within a single day, which includes a total of 10 miles of overland single pass carries. The single longest being 3.75 miles...

During our mandatory 6 hour "night" rest stops to camp while on the Yukon River 1000 mile races, we would completely empty our voyageur canoe from all gear and evidence of daytime snacking activity, and pulled it way up on shore, hoping no snooping walk through by any multi hundred pound...

That's my feeling about them too.

Yeti coolers claim to be tested and certified bear resistant, but you have to put bolts or padlocks in the corner hold downs. I used a 120 liter Yeti when I paddled a large voyageur canoe on the first Yukon 1000 mile race, when an excessive amount of food (20kg/paddler x7) was required by the...

Me too. Here is how we made use of an aluminum Grumman on a BSA Adirondack trek I was leading on the Oswegatchie traverse. I don't think I wold have dared let them (or myself) cook on my cedarstrip that I was using on this trip.

The family son, Andy Fox, worked as an Adiondack BSA guide and instructor with me for a few short years, then he went to work making canoes for Placid Boatworks in Lake Placid. I raced in the 90 miler with him a couple of times. After he got tired of breathing the resin fumes at PB, he moved on...

The sliding seat is not used as a dynamic slider while paddling. Although I can easily move it forward and back to fixed positions while on the water, its main purpose is to adjust trim for different wind and wave conditions. My PB Rapidfire and Shadow have similar movable seats, but with fixed...

Since the BW gunwales have no innwale for a yoke clamp to grip, I asked Ben to glue in small carbon blocks that my yoke would clamp to at the balance point. I also use a hand line at my waist attached bow to stern to control the up/down tip of the canoe while carrying. I remove the pads from...

Ben told me it would weigh in at 19 pounds and that is what I measure in the final product at home. Everything that can be carbon is carbon. Sliding race style seat with attqched sliding footbrace. A real joy to paddle and easy to carry. Even without any significant rocker I am able to turn...

You might give Ben Diller at Savage River a call to discuss various strength and durability options of their layups. Last fall I received a new Blackwater solo canoe in Texreme Lite, promised at and measured at 19 pounds. it is to become my new flatwater and slow river tripping canoe. I have no...

As a primary race bow paddler, my feet are regularly squished in the narrowing bow directly in front of my seat. I have various configurations and thicknesses of rigid foam blocks to press my feet against. Depending on the boat, for long marathon races, I often attach squares of thin foam...

Based on Steve's guess, and the photo below, I'd say the guy on the left leans like Charlier Wilson https://historicimages.com/products/mjc16393?pr_prod_strat=e5_desc&pr_rec_id=ab3a92262&pr_rec_pid=6565282512943&pr_ref_pid=6541575225391&pr_seq=uniform "1993 Press Photo Canoe paddler, Charlie...

For one canoe race training season, we had an exchange engineer from Germany join us. We quickly learned to definitely not want to put her in the bow of a 7 padder voyager canoe, once was enough. Whew..... complete with everything you have heard about European women including her obvious furry...

I spent three awful less than enjoyable outdoor recreation related years while stationed in the Air Force in Ohio, Columbus, to be exact. I bought my first canoe while there, a Grumman with the then available lightweight thin skin model aluminum for me and my wife to enjoy. The awful outline of...

Most racers prefer to have an adjustable foot bar, often with a loop of webbing just big enough to slip their toes under, firmly attached to the bar at their preferred foot location . As I am usually in the bow seat, I have to come up with some other methods in a canoe without a solid bulkhead...

I have known people who say they collect antique bottles and coins and other stuff of value from old abandoned home sites or long ago abandoned logging camps in the woods. The first place to go to find the best treasures is in the pit of old rotted outhouses.

"We're almost there... it's just around the next bend" when speaking of the marathon canoe race finish line. - anonymous

"A meander is the pleasantest distance between two points." -Paul Jamieson writing fondly about the Oswegatchie River in "Adirondack Canoe Waters, North Flow"