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those who do well paddling with a kayak paddle as is required in the solo-rec race class, will use a relatively short paddle in almost vertical format. e.g. Joe Moore, owner of Placid boats, has won almost every solo-rec race he has ever entered. I won over him just once when he suffered an...

No serious racer would ever think of racing with any paddle other than a bent, especially a carbon bent. It only takes observaton, much less partication in one race to know that.

I have no doubt that a single blade paddled on one side only, even with very efficient and rapid rare inefficient necessary correction strokes will be significantly slower overall than rapid hit/sit and switch technique. I can't imagine being competitive in any race in any canoe by paddling on...

I feel confident with my roof top system, mainly due to the widely spaced Thule crossbars and the gunwale blocks holding the canoe firmly in place. I traveled from the Adirondacks to Whitehorse from Dawson City back home again, carrying a carbon C4 (with the addition of a rear hitch tie-down...

It is amazing that with almost any moderate velociity of headwind, your paddling speed will drop off by an average of .5mph. I think this perception and increased effort maintains the average to only .5mph, unless the headwind is very high, and then the increasingly wetted hull surface friction...

Which is the reason I do not like too frequent hit and switch hut calls during races. As I have stated previously, depending on the race team (C2, C4 or voyageur) coordination, the boat tracking, the weather, and the ability of the stern paddler to control overall straight ahead track with all...

Alan, thank you for the extreme effort in collecting that detailed paddling data. Do you have any idea of your stroke rate single and double? I assume you are also very accomplished using a single blade while rapidly correcting single side paddling, not hit and switch. Do you have any comparison...

My favorite twisty stream if Brown's Tact durin the 90 mile race. Most times I am in a multi seat canoe (C4 or voyageur) with me in the bow seat. When I begin my bow draws around a tight bend, the stern paddler must match with an opposite draw to pivot the canoe into the right direction to roll...

Thanks, Art for posting this. i have asked my. 90 mile team to watch it. I remember Charlie Wilson mentioning much of this to me years ago. Imagining the catch going into semi-solid jello and then pulling the canoe past the stationary paddle with paddle blade kept as vertical as possible...

The problem of fasstening a pad to a seat with straps or even using duct tape, is not so much of a problem with a rectangular bench seat or the like. But when it comes to a molded curved bottom tractor style seat on a movable rail or for a floor mounted solo seat, it is not so obviously easy.

Many on my marathon Yukon team have discovered something even more ofensive than a sore bum from hard sitting. We call it "monkey butt". it is a painful chafing between the butt cheeks that sets in after many days-long paddling hours. A lubricating and antibiotic cream applied each morning...

No serious canoe racer would not use anything except a carbon bent single blade.

My first voyageur canoe had hard plywood seats with a thin (very thin) insulating pad on top. (original classic voyageur canoes had only a narrow flat wood bar thwart to rest your butt on). Difficult to take for an 8+ hour race. We looked forward to the ADK-90 portages as a welcome break from...

A woodstrip boatbuilder I know installs thwarts and seats attached with a stress from one side to the other. When I removed the six seats and thwarts from my 34' voyageur canoe for refinishing, after I reinstalled them it flopped and twisted like a wet noodle. Pat told me to put some tension...

New kevlar hulls are bright yellow. Broad sides, such on C4 canoes tend to flex slightly in and out, even when new. From my usual race bow seat I can see it flex by my legs when crossing through waves. Being poorly stored in the sun turns kevlar increasingly brown. I have seen many old dark...

it got me, in several of the listed events.

When a fellow wilderness guide instructor convinced me to try hammock camping, I can tell you it was a frustrating couple of nights until I learned some valuable lessons. I knew I needed a Thermarest pad inside under me, even on relatively warm summer nights. The dang thing kept floating up and...

I have several and love using my long thin feather edge blade otter tail and other straight wood paddles. But they are meant for recreational cruising and multi-technique stroke use. Carbon bents were developed for ultralight weight strong efficient high power canoe racing. You can do a limited...

In my 30+ years of paddling and racing, I have well over 6000 documented miles of sit, or hit and switch as bow paddler in multi seat canoes (C2, C4, voyageur) in Adirondack area and Yukon River races plus team and solo race training. I am not usually a stock solo canoe racer, which utilizes the...

I've used tubular webbing in my Subarus for many years. never noticed any degradation of the loops. There happens to be a very convenient bolt placed just right under the hood. Under the hood of my Subaru Wilderness Forester: