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I think it's important in these discussions to remember the name of the site is canoetripping, not canoeracing. To be sure, one can learn many efficiencies from studying the top athletes in any given sport, but for me, the comparison breaks down to how I feel when I get to camp at night. I've...

To some extent this is true, although a competent paddler should be able to make similar hulls go at roughly the same speed. For instance, in tripping situations, I think most dedicated solo canoe hulls paddled by the same tripping paddler over the course of a day will give roughly similar...

For racers, 2.4 % is a huge advantage. For a tripper, not so much. For instance, I can propel my fully loaded Raven at 5.5 k an hour all day with a carbon straight or a wooden straight. So 5.5 +2.4% = 5.632 8 hours of paddling at 5.5 = 44 k 8 hours of paddling at 5.632 = 45.06

Very interesting, glad you had some pics. Your efforts will no doubt stir up some controversy. My observations from years of traveling with a gps is that tripping speed is often fairly standard despite conditions. The variable is effort. For instance, with a moderate head wind, I will paddle...

I got to thinking about this, and with the state of fake news all around us, I gotta say "pictures or it didn't happen".

I've got two tent stoves now, a kni-co and a G-stove. The G stove is stainless, and has not rusted. The kni-co is rusty, I haven't treated it in 15 years, but it is fine. Our Outers club had Great West stoves that were 50 years old and had never been rust treated. They were rusty but still...

Maybe, but did your app track your progress for an entire day, or a short distance? Based on my limited experience (I have one chum who has gone to the double blade dark side) we both arrive at camp at the end of the day at the same time, but I look better with my classy single stick.

That's interesting Steve, I never thought of using a double blade for a pole, does it hold up in the long run?

14 k a day will lea e you lots of time for fishing and bird watching. Totally doable.

Alan, if you stop calling your canoe naughty names, it will treat you nicer. And you gotta have a set of arms, not twigs hanging out of your shirt sleeves, to push that paddle around.

I'm Canadian, and I am very reluctant to play the switchy thing, so Al, I guess you are right. I played around this weekend in my Raven, unloaded, so lots of freeboard. Winds were gusting to almost 50 k per hour, or 30 mph for the metricallly challenged. I paddled for about 3 k into the wind...

I have very rarely used bow and stern lines for transport. Actually, I don't think I have ever used them. I have always assumed they were safety lines, in case there was a catastrophic rack failure, as my canoes have always been solidly held on the racks by ropes or cam straps. On the new...

Wow, I wonder how I missed this report. Excellent job. I did some whitewater training on the French, somewhere around Hartley Bay. I saw more people on the river over the course of five days than actually live in the little town I'm from. Are you planning any trips this summer?

Not to be nosey, but do your September trips still involve coming up to Ontario? My memory is not the best now, but I seem to recall you had been speculating about a trip in Wabakimi maybe? If that is the case, don't worry about the bear vault, just put your food bag outside your tent, if you...

I find myself using both measurement systems too, but to be honest, metric is a lot easier if one if fractionally challenged. Most of my students measure their projects in centimetres, although I spend a fair amount of time instructing them in imperial as well.

Except for woodworking, I haven't found many project plans in Canada using metric.

Fifty pounds is great for that canoe. People who haven't seen a Raven before are often surprised by how big it is. I've never found it tender, pretty much the opposite. It was designed by J.Winters as a down river tripper, it does well in river travel. Because of the asymmetrical hull and your...

I've worked with quite a few different woods, but hands down prefer our local white cedar. I am going to get some poplar or aspen this fall though and try that as the main wood.

There's always surprises in groups, for instance, surprise Bannock, layered with the surprise mexican jalapeño peppers, the ones the won the hottest peppers in Mexico contest, and the ones that subsequently turned my rosebud into a surprise ring of burning fire, the likes of which had never...

Having organized group meals for extended trips for over 30 years, I don't care to ever do it again. I'm quite happy sharing a fire or using one of my little stoves to make my five minute meal.