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  1. yknpdlr

    Paddling advice for long, flat, skinny boats

    I find that a canoe tends to track straighter with less need for correction strokes the faster you can make it go, to the limit of strokes getting sloppy. I like to cruise right along at speed with a bent carbon on one side using a pitch stroke and very (very) mimal occasional J when i feel I...
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    New Swift Tandem - Lavieille 17-6

    That sliding mid seat configuration is very common among C4 and voyageur (C6-7) racing canoes. Balance could be a problem with a C3, however. Seats are on a wheel system that rolls left to right and back again during huts. Coordination is critical though. One partial miss is forgivable, but a...
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    Paddling advice for long, flat, skinny boats

    It is a somewhat different experience for me. It is difficult for me to not think about race mode paddling when solo. Most often I am in a multi-seat canoe when racing, and of course hit and switch is mandatory then. But when solo I do enjoy single side paddling for long periods on one side...
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    Your three favorite pieces of comfort or luxury canoe camping gear

    For canoe tripping, the best choice has got to be the chair. I found the Maxi Trac Folding chair at NAPA Auto Parts, of all places. With a large comfortable high back support it is as tight , and is as sturdy and lightweight in a small disassembled carrying package as any much more expensive...
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    Paddling advice for long, flat, skinny boats

    Of course, you do need to bend at the waist, but not as much as you may think. It is not like bending over with arched back to pick something up off the ground, which results in sloppy catch followed by poor power application. Chest forward is more like puffing out your chest like a gorilla...
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    Paddling advice for long, flat, skinny boats

    Watch the above linked video of Kevin Olson's "'how to turn a c1". you get good from the front views of how he huts and switches his hands. Also note that in what he calls a "pry' the paddle never comes in contact with the canoe, though some may think oherwise from the terminology. When I...
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    So what exactly is everyone up to in their non-boating hours?

    I retired 12 years ago with 41.5 years of combined active military and government civilian research laboratory credit to my pension, plus retired with concurrent 22 years in the AF reserves. I loved traveling to visit my son in the AF and grandkids while he was stationed in Korea, Germany, and...
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    Paddling advice for long, flat, skinny boats

    Good wife example #1: A few years ago, a dear family friend who I had known and was best friends with his kids since kindergarten, was turning 80. He had paddled the 90 mile Adirondack race many years prior and wanted to do it again one last time in his home built solo wood kayak. As his health...
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    POLL: How do you pronounce portage?

    what is your "boat" and how do you propel it? If you "paddle" a canoe or a kayak, neither of which originated from English words. It is assumed that the word canoe came into English from the term 'canoa' that is used for the Caribbean dugout canoe in Columbus' travelogues in 1493. Possibly...
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    Can you define these wetlands?

    Although there appears t be no defined upper limit to its size, you likely have not paddled in a woodland vernal pool. Typically they are very small surface water bodies filled with snow melt or heavy spring rains. Every woodland hiker has had to negotiate around one or more of these.They are...
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    My trip to Canada in a Cyber truck

    I inherited this 1984 F250 diesel from my dad several years ago. He had already made the wood rack sides for transporting firewood. I added the wood top cross rail supports and bolted on the front bumper upright support. Since the bumper was all steel, it was quite a sturdy attachment. Not so...
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    ZRE "Revolution" Paddle Blade

    My two year old 51" GRB carbon bent gently curved blade weighs in at 10 ounces, matching the advertised weight. Exactly the same as my older 51" GRB flat blade.
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    The efficiency of bent vs. straight shaft paddles

    Steve, were you paddling single side with correction strokes, or hit and switch to maintain a straight forward track? There are so many variables that may come into play. While I very much enjoy using my straight wood otter tail paddles and those of similar variant shapes, they are primarily...
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    What happens when you paddle a bent shaft backwards?

    A few years ago, in the early fall of the year I slipped off an old cabin roof while giving it a coat of aluminized asphalt paint. I thought I was being careful, but must have dripped a drop behind me. That is all it took for me to go flying down, right onto a rubble pile of a concrete cinder...
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    ZRE "Revolution" Paddle Blade

    Watch Kevin's review video in the link on the web page I posted. He shows the paddle weighs just 10 ounces. He also makes note of what I noted in that at the exit to the recovery it lifts more water than a flat blade, and he also likes the catch, as I mentioned In my experience. Good on the...
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    ZRE "Revolution" Paddle Blade

    I will when I return to camp on Wednesday as I prepre for the 90 miler.
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    ZRE "Revolution" Paddle Blade

    Sounds like a copy of what GRB developed 2-3 years ago. I have one of these from GRB, but don't notice a lot of difference from their standard flat blade carbon bent paddle. Maybe I am not using it exactly correctly. Due to the very slightly cupped curvature, I think it makes more exit splash on...
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    The efficiency of bent vs. straight shaft paddles

    Back to my long term as instructor for wannabe BSA high adventure guides wherein canoe skills were a large part but not the only skills concept to master, which included all "hard skills" aspects of tripping and wilderness guiding skills leading youth trips both on water and on land. We as a...
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    The efficiency of bent vs. straight shaft paddles

    Although most of my students in 30 years have not been in the same upper class economic level, a few have shown up for BSA wilderness guide training with a bent and have had the same paddle orientation problem. Most all of the class are college age students with a desire to work at an Adirondack...
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    The efficiency of bent vs. straight shaft paddles

    The subject of recent posts was whether bents were 2.4% (or more) faster than straights. My point above was that it doesn’t take long for a new to racing paddler, wanting to eventually place well, will soon adopt use of a bent paddle in future races. Why? If all in some odd race were required...
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