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Tryin', thanks for taking the time time to post this trip and its numerous interesting pictures. Is that green mattress a Nemo Roamer XL? Mine was comfy for five nights two weeks ago. Is the mattress on a cot, and if so, what kind and how do you like how that works out? Shouldn't be. The...

I've moved several posts about what leg to push off with and the effect of heeling on forward velocity to a new, separate thread because they have become tangential to the discussion of the GRB Newman Classic canoe and because they are interesting enough to warrant their own thread...

I've moved the posts above from the Thoughts on Grasse River/GRB Newman Classic? thread because they are tangential there and because they pose interesting questions that deserve their own topical thread.

CD, I hope you'll keep participating here, not only for your tripping expertise, but also for you entertaining and unabashed word plays.

I have a Nova Craft Bob Special in my fleet—actually at my daughter's house in Florida—and I'd say similar things about it as Mem did about the NC Pal. However, it's a foot shorter than the Pal at 15', an inch wider at 35", and an inch centrally deeper at 14". Frankly, I don't care for it as a...

A few weeks ago I was paddling my Swift Keewaydin 15 on a lake trip with @Tsuga8 (Alex). Alex asked if I paddle the canoe with a heel to the paddling side. I said no because I don't intentionally do that in any narrow solo canoe; I only intentionally do it when soloing a tandem canoe. However...

Maybe it's Estherville (where?), Iowa.

I find it highly unconvincing to compare the biomechanics of paddling from a seated position with both feet on a foot bar (with or without loops) to the biomechanics of paddling from the high-kneel position of an ICF canoe sprinter. When seated with feet out front on a foot bar (and whether...

I've done the same on all my plastic and composite CanAm canoes except my last one, which I'll explain after the pictures of my SRT and Wildfire with glued-in foam pads. I don't like minicell at all for flat kneeling pads in canoes (it's okay if carved into cups). It's too incompressible and...

Tom, I'm not clear on this because I am not informed on hit & switch racing subtleties. Your push-pull leg technique heels the hull away from the paddle side, but then heels the hull to the other side when you switch paddle sides? So, you are essentially rocking the canoe left and right every 6...

It's a bit of an interesting mystery, but I'm not sure what it could be other than an MGB, given the small number of Blue Hole tandem canoes. Also the measurements do indicate an asymmetry in the depth and rocker, whereas the Blue Hole tandems other than the MGs were symmetrical in those specs...

Large outrigger canoes with sails are believed to have been water crafts that populated the Pacific islands from Asia. In the Pacific region, outriggers are still sailed today in both traditional wood and modern composite builds. If you mean can a modern, composite single person va'a be...

She was a mile off shore in the Peace River. No PFD. Reports don't mention booze or drugs, but I wouldn't be surprised. News report: https://www.winknews.com/news/woman-rescued-after-treading-water-for-12-hours-in-charlotte-harbor/article_073d5187-98ec-4e53-934f-8360a8950f24.html Video...

"The calendar page turned to July 11th, 1925 . . . . It was a hot, sticky, bug-infested afternoon in the Barren Lands, 500km from the nearest settlement. Bullock and Hornby kept pushing in their canoes down the Hanbury River. Exhausted, severely malnourished, they decided to lessen their load."...

Don't worry about thread drift or repeating things we've all said in the past. It's a thread about different ways to turn or otherwise control a canoe, which all involve heeling of one sort or another from one position or another. I'm not a poler, but Steve in his Millbrook Souhegan is...

Aha, attached is a PDF file of the entire 1982 Blue Hole catalog. It lists only five models, three being over 17': the MGA, MGB and 17A. No 17B Wood Duck, with shallower depth than the 17A, listed in 1982. The catalog also clarifies that the MGA had the sliding bow seat, but not the MGB. Also...

That HIN won't decode because it's 11 not 12 characters long. (Did you leave out a character?) However, the "TBH" MIC is Blue Hole and the 81 at the end would mean a 1981 model. The only question is what 17+ foot model it is. I have the 1986 Canoe Magazine buyers guide issue. It lists only two...

Here is a Blue Hole MGA. You can see the forward prow stem.

Not MSB. MGB. In the early 1980s, Blue Hole hired then-famous Tampa canoe designer Mike Galt to design a tandem hull for them. They sold the aluminum trim version as the MGA and the wood trim version as the MGB. The wood trim was frequently ash inwales and mahogany outwales (or vice versa, I...

CanoeDaddy, thanks for taking the time to write that very interesting trip report and for posting it here. Having read every word, I feel no guilt in saying: You clearly made the right decision by pushing the SOS button on your Zoleyeo, as a paronomastic paddler might facetiously write even...