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Thanks for the offer and anecdote D J! Your anecdote confirms my suspicion that this is not the boat for taking my wife lily dipping. Sure would be fun to try one though. Next time I'm up near you I might just drop you a line!

Thanks Alan for those additional thoughts - very useful. I suspect those latter hulls you mention are really what I should be aiming for to fit my needs. The rest of y'all are terrible influences! I keep thinking I'll flip boats but they come in and don't leave. At a certain point one has...

Sage words, thank you gentlemen. The problem with paddle and release is that my garage is already over capacity on boats. @recped and especially @Alan Gage 's descriptions are really useful. The issues with trim and sinking an end are obvious once pointed out but wouldn't have occurred to...

Thanks, Steve. Unfortunately I'm also out of storage room for canoes. Really need to move a couple more out of the stable rather than adding more in. Still....🤔

There's a Jensen VA-1 for sale near me. I've never been in such a boat. With utmost respect for the racers among us, I have absolutely no interest in racing. I do have interest in a better tracking, faster paddling boat just to see the sights and leave traffic noise behind faster. What's the...

A Sojourn recently popped up near me. I think you never tried to pole one? Do they turn when heeled? Thinking of some rivers around here that are mostly flat and deep but with an occasional 'bump and scrape' shoal, as well as a better tracking boat that the Phoenix for some lake outings...

@Glenn MacGrady I was musing on multipurpose boats this morning with the Hudson in mind. In particular, I was thinking about car-toppable boats that can be sailed or paddled/rowed. Does anyone ever sail va'as?

I actually started poling swamps with my 250cm double blade before I got a pole. I still use the double to pole sometimes on back country trips when I don't have a pole. I wouldn't do it in a rocky creek or strong moving water, but my double has held up really well to pushing in muck and...

I was just thinking myself how a longer carbon double would be nice.... I suspect I'm stuck with what I have, but maybe someone will donate one to your cause :)

Alan, thank you for the well thought-out and executed test. I appreciate your approach and effort. To me, this is the crux of it. When I switch to double is when I'm trying to make miles across a lake in my Phoenix during a trip (though I'm confident I don't have your skill or form with a...

@yknpdlr Well, a C4 crossing the plains is a pretty good test of a tie-down system! I didn't mean to imply your system was inferior or anything...just thinking through my own decision-making and looking for opportunities to compare, contrast, and learn. At the end of the day most systems...

I had to look under my hood to get oriented with this pic. I opted for a bolt in the frame along the side of the engine compartment, much closer to the hydraulics that lift the hood. My thinking was that having the anchor behind, or in line with, the bow limits motion better. Before the hood...

Nice boat. Anyone know the weight?

100F with low humidity sounds fine by me when you're on a spring-fed river. It's a far cry from here, where the humidity goes over 90% and water temps in swimming pools are over 90F as well. That is also my wife's preferred paddle position in a tandem. Sometimes we don't even pretend she's...

Inspired by Murat and others, I purchased carbonfiber ferrules with the intention of making a two-piece wood pole. In case of the wood breaking before the ferrules, I'd want to reuse the ferrules, those being the more expensive and harder to replace material. I'm wondering how to avoid this...

I grew up without AC. Now I live about 75 miles further north and our summer power bill seems to go up every year because we use the AC more and more.

Sevareid and Rutstrum are classics - glad y'all are enjoying them. The former I stumbled upon in the UMaine library the summer I worked there. Rutstrum I only learned about more recently after a friend gave me his book on living in winter. Hospital and Haven sounds very interesting - cool to...

Helpful tips, all, thanks for sharing.

Likeiwse I haven't been there since circa 2010, but I echo the sentiment. Fisheating Creek was one of the prettiest places I ever paddled in Florida. I had one of my pics from there as a screensaver for many years. That is the place I learned that napping in a kayak while solo in gator...

The straps were purchased as they were, marketed as hood straps for tying down a boat (I didn't make em myself). I agree, in retrospect, that the webbing isn't terribly thick in any dimension. I can't recall where I got them but they were pretty cheap. I store most of my gear indoors; my car...