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  1. Glenn MacGrady

    Article: "Freestyle kept me paddling"

    "In 2017 I was struggling to stay interested in canoeing. A few years earlier I had sold my canoes and then in 2016 had purchased a couple of Pack Boats which I soon realized didn’t suit how I wanted to paddle. I wasn’t sure what I wanted but knew it didn’t include a double bladed paddle or...
  2. Glenn MacGrady

    Canoe ID and restoration

    Great job, @Dana. The Mad River Explorer in Royelex was my first canoe and I did everything in it: solo, tandem, lakes, whitewater, poling, small outboard motor, and even made a rowing rig.
  3. Glenn MacGrady

    The efficiency of bent vs. straight shaft paddles

    Here is the entire full text of the 2009 Caplan study, which concluded: ". . . the fastest boat velocity was achieved by ensuring that the face of the paddle was vertical at the point in the stroke when the paddler had accelerated the paddle to the greatest extent through the water." (Emphasis...
  4. Glenn MacGrady

    What are your current solo canoes and how do you like them?

    Sumac, a famously native tree of Iran, has been infesting Gamma's boat building brain for more than six years now: https://www.canoetripping.net/threads/alternatives-to-cedar.96606/ Time to queue back some sumac and glue/tack.
  5. Glenn MacGrady

    Back to the crater (this time for real?) Manicouagan Reservoir

    I can see all his tracks and his stoppage as of 7:12 pm today. He's a little more than half way around.
  6. Glenn MacGrady

    My trip to Canada in a Cyber truck

    I had to do a search to find out what a Cyber truck is. I'm not sure what the issue is with them (other than profound ugliness), but please don't bother explaining to me because I suspect it involves something political or media distorted/hyped. Not of interest to me, and not allowed here. I...
  7. Glenn MacGrady

    Button at the bottom right of the page “Back to top”

    It doesn't sound as if the problem is with our site software, Xenforo. Perhaps your computer or your version of Windows or your version of Firefox are out of date.
  8. Glenn MacGrady

    Button at the bottom right of the page “Back to top”

    Those shortcuts work for me in Firefox on my PC but not in Chrome or Opera. However, I have End and Home buttons on my PC keyboard, which will instantly take me to the top or bottom of a page. Also, I have PgUp and PgDn buttons on my keyboard, which will scroll me more slowly up and down...
  9. Glenn MacGrady

    Square Stern race

    Mem's OP motivated me to see if I could directly embed a Facebook video. All I did was copy the URL from the address bar of the Facebook page having the video, and then pasting that URL into the Reply text entry box (after, as always, a line space after any prefatory reply text).
  10. Glenn MacGrady

    Button at the bottom right of the page “Back to top”

    Do the Cntrl+UpDownArrow shortcuts work in Firefox for you?
  11. Glenn MacGrady

    Button at the bottom right of the page “Back to top”

    While the page-up and page-down buttons appear on my ThinkPad Windows PC, the shortcuts Cntrl+UpArrow and Cntrl+DownArrow also work.
  12. Glenn MacGrady

    Button at the bottom right of the page “Back to top”

    Kahel, I use Firefox almost exclusively and the buttons are there in all color themes. Same for the Chrome and Opera browsers. Try switching among default dark, default light and default system, and refresh the page after every switch.
  13. Glenn MacGrady

    Button at the bottom right of the page “Back to top”

    The page-up and page-down jump buttons (with an arrow inside) may have been implemented differently in the several different color styles (themes) we have available on the site. I have just adjusted my control program to make sure that both the page-up AND page-down jump buttons appear in the...
  14. Glenn MacGrady

    Roll Call for West CT, SW MA and MHV NY Canoeists

    I appreciate the positive responses. I know @Brightraven works on Saturdays and I assume others might work on Mondays, so Sundays may be the the best day. Because I'm probably going to be out of town in late September and early October, I don't want to waste time planning. So, I'm going to...
  15. Glenn MacGrady

    NW CT Flatwater Day Trip 1, Sunday 8/31/25

    I will be paddling this Sunday, August 31, on a 9.5 mile round trip out of the Lake Lillinonah Pond Brook boat launch, which is at 158 Hanover Road, Newtown, Connecticut. I know there is water there, all flat water, and the weather is supposed to be good. The trip goes down Pond Brook Stream...
  16. Glenn MacGrady

    Millbrook Outrage

    If I may be so bold, you deserved to swim. The discipline of the dump is the best whitewater instruction there is. You appear to be slightly heeling upstream and trying to low brace into the upstream current. As a lefty, you needed to be heeling to the gunwale downstream and supporting yourself...
  17. Glenn MacGrady

    Quiet Blade Shape

    Tony, that part of a Zav where the shaft transitions into the blade is sort of fat, and it's always been unclear to me whether I should consider it part of the shaft or blade. I don't need to sneak up in perfect silence very often, but if that bent Zav were my only paddle, I would simply not...
  18. Glenn MacGrady

    The Maine Guide Paddle

    Thanks for that article, Benson, which was somewhat revealing. To me, Alexandra learned her paddle making craft in a niche environment from niche sources, and I find some of her paddle ideas appealing and others not so. A scalloped secondary grip, Yes. Using a Northwood stroke, Yes (occasionally...
  19. Glenn MacGrady

    Must have medical items?

    I've never heard of these. What are they?
  20. Glenn MacGrady

    Must have medical items?

    Just curious, RedSquirrel, are you in the medical profession?
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