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I like the detailed weather info on this website (and app), so I'm going to leave it up as a featured thread for a while. https://zoom.earth/

Correction or switch stroking? Straight or bent?

Last week in Osgood Pond area in northern Adirondacks. Marc Ornstein and Rascal in Savage River Illusion, me in Swift Kewaydin 15, Lynn and Raphael Dominguez and Cooper in Mad River Malecite.

Years. But it's a tangent for the day. No need to discuss.

"Every two years, the International Whitewater Hall of Fame honors the world’s most accomplished whitewater Pioneers, Explorers, Champions, and Advocates." https://iwhof.org/ I've never heard of many of the inductees, especially the European ones. There seem to be some significant omissions...

We had a short, violent thunderstorm here shortly after I posted today and the temperature dropped 20 degrees. How does that work? Magic? Whatever, it's a welcome relief and it actually motivated me to go out this evening.

https://zoom.earth/maps/temperature-feel/

2:45 pm today, July 30 → Temp: 92° F (33° C). RealFeel: 109° F (43° C). Don't even want to get out of bed where I have two fans focused on me to make it tolerable to sleep, much less to do anything outdoors. At night, we run an attic fan to suck cooler air into the attic. Been that way in two...

Right now, 4:44 pm. Just last week, camping in the Adirondacks, I was cold at night in the mid-40s F because I hadn't brought any warm clothes. Too hot, too cold, are the wages of getting old. Maybe I should move to San Diego, where it's always sunny and perfect room temperature. C'mon...

Just discovered this website database that documents, historically, both flatwater and whitewater racing results in North America. It is quite extensive in geographical and chronological scope, but since it probably relies on self-reporting, who knows how complete it is...

Don't understand. The 2025 Midwest Canoe Symposium is being held on September 5-7, 2025, in Peninsula, Ohio. It is organized by Jim and Manon Paquet-Satrape, with whom I paddled for three days last week in the Adirondacks. Here they are on the Upper Osgood River. I highly recommend...

I believe Serge Corbin and his many amis are world class switchers. There is a difference between switching because you can't control the boat with correction strokes on one side because of wind, waves, tiring muscles or lack of technique, and Minnesota switching (Harry Roberts' NATT: North...

I have no experience with that Wenonah yoke. Just looking, it might carry the canoe too far above my head than I would prefer, and I'd be concerned that the the immovable (?) attachment spot wouldn't balance the canoe properly. I'd prefer a fore-aft movable clamp-on-the-gunwales yoke unless...

Looks great and very informative thread, Steve.

I never thought of that. Sounds right. Interesting!

Not sure I fully understand the benefit of the ring. On my canoes with rope grab loops, I usually just tie the painters to the grab loops and leave them there more-or-less permanently. They function as painters while paddling and as tie down lines when cartopping. On my composite canoes, I...

In longer crossings especially in wind and waves, and when going up-current, I go into switch paddling with my 48.5" ZRE bent shaft—almost always while kneeling. Kneeling increases my stability and confidence, again especially in wind and waves. As my age has enhanced, while my ankles haven't, I...

2025 WCHA Assembly Salute

There is a summer 2025 Swift Demo Day with Bill Swift at Collinsville Canoe & Kayak in Canton, Connecticut, on Sunday July 27 from 10-4. https://www.collinsvillecanoe.com/swift-canoe--kayak-demo-days---collinsville-canoe--kayak.htm Here are the Swift canoes and kayaks that Collinsville has in...