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Not to evade specifics, Jay, but any tandem canoe can be paddled solo. You can either sit in the bow seat backwards or install a centralized solo seat or kneeling thwart. You may have to move or remove a thwart that's in the way of your seating position. You could also remove the bow and stern...

Thanks so much for taking the time to post your trip report and pictures here, @samb. It sounds like it was a memorable experience even with the low waters. Only 14 people in the gigantic park! That's amazing as a measure of solitude and wilderness. Somewhat different from the 770,000 people...

I haven't encountered this. It's obviously a huge manufacturing defect. On wonders why the original owner would have accepted such a canoe, or not demanded a new one afterwards, unless offered some huge discount to take or keep it as is.

I clarified my initial post in this thread to focus on paddling from a centralized seat because our resident solo-stern-paddling-a-tandem aficionado, @lowangle al, had already been participating. Al has experimented with and perfected his solo style in his tandem canoes, many wood/canvas and as...

Congrats on finishing the project, Alan. As one who doesn't like or even understand the need for decks, I like the creative "feature". Some questions. What are the dimensions of the canoe? What are the light and dark woods? What kind of paddle is that in the last picture?

I never took lessons at NOC, but I knew a lot of canoeists who did in the 80s and 90s. And my tandem partner taught solo open canoe there for a while in the 90s after he moved from CT to NC. They used to have a mail order catalog operation like NRS, Cascade and Charlie Waldbridge, and I bought...

Starting a report with a midstream preview teaser. Excellent rhetorical device. Hooked me.

BLO is subject to mold and mildew, as @ScottS points out above, which can blacken wood gunwales. Maybe paddles too. The micro-critters eat the stuff. BLO also attracts moisture rather than repelling it, which is another reason it attracts fungus. Finally, BLO has no UV resistance. I used BLO...

I have merged the Rutabaga CLOSING and later STAYING OPEN threads into this one thread.

Thanks for the update, Erica. Selling the business to motivated and simpatico buyers sounds like a better outcome for the canoe community than closing down.

Water is water. Gotta take what's available with whatever time and money is available. So, what's your impression of the handling characteristics of the Raven—in general and compared to your previous build? Anything you would do differently next time?

"Honor thy father." Whatever works. Very clever and good job, @sailsman63!

I'd say there are four types of hull symmetry or asymmetry. 1. Waterline (viewed from above AKA plan view). If the widest point of the waterline is forward of the longitudinal center of the hull, the hull is fishform. If the widest point it behind the center, the hull is swedeform. 2. Sheer...

The trip on Sunday, Oct. 19 is canceled. I'm exploring with a group via DM whether there is interest in running the same trip the following weekend on Saturday or Sunday, the 25th or 26th.

Sad news, but thanks for bringing it to our attention, Roger. "Henry launched his legacy in 1971 by winning the National Whitewater Open Canoe Championships on Maine’s Dead River in a boat he designed and built himself—the fiberglass Malecite. The 22-mile downriver course combined flatwater, a...

Mark, I'll add you to the group I contact via DM about these trips relatively local to NW CT and the NY MHV that I've been trying organize. I'll decide tomorrow whether this particular trip is going, or being postponed a week, or being canceled until next year.

This site has a search function, Mark, for your future info. For example, just search on the word "Manicouagan".

Sure. Let me add some context. My pictorial report in the long OP was of four days of private group paddling (M-Th) prior to the Pine Barrens Functional Freestyle Workshop (PBFFW). This trip was composed of the instructors and some of the students who were going to attend the PBFFW, plus a few...

This trip, IF it goes, will go on Sunday, October 19. I say "if" because right now I only have one solid commitment, and I would like at least one other canoe, especially someone who can shuttle two canoes on their vehicle, which I can't.

I take it you are asking about heeling from a centralized solo seat. I'll make some points, probably repeating what others have said. 1. Any canoe I've ever paddled will turn better when heeled. Heeling shortens the waterline and can pull the stern stem out of the water. If the stern stem is...