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Really hate those Artificial Intelligence canoes!

Count me in. I was just pondering a fall HV gathering. I've also been meaning to get out on the Housatonic more.

I actually brought a beavertail and a bent-shaft Sugar Island-y paddle (homemade, I think, came with a used boat) to try both, thinking that if the Sojourn was a good tracker it might finally get me into using the bent shaft sit-and-switch. Now I am definitely not proficient at bent shaft...

Just stumbled upon this thread. I have an old Alden Ocean shell that my mom bought to row when I was little. When I was really little, she'd sit me in the bow while she rowed - probably my first small boat experience. As we got a little bigger, we started using the shell as a kayak when...

Looks like a fantastic trip and great dogs! Well done training them, including training a role model for Max. What is a Hanoverian Scent Hound/why did you opt for one? What boat and paddles are you using? Looks like your cedar GP I asked about before? Fine looking combo: boat, paddles and dogs!

Perfect example of reasonable DB use in my book. Some here will claim they can keep up with any kayak with a single blade. I'm not one of em. I'm getting faster and faster with a single but I'm faster still with a double. If I'm out to lily dip I always chose single. If I need to get...

Need =/= want indeed! When tripping lakes I sometimes wish I had something with stickier stems like a Prism, NW Solo or even Magic. When I'm in the twisty creeks I'm glad to have the Phoenix. It does tend to wander when drifting though. I was hoping the Sojourn would be more like a Prism...

@Erica just finished this series. Fantastic trip report, you had me on the edge of my seat. It takes work to put these together, thank you for sharing! I really appreciated your strength, honestly and openness, including the end. Hoping many more adventures await you in your freedom!

The seller was nice enough to let me test paddle the Sojourn yesterday. I was in a creek; at the put-in the current was almost imperceptible, just upstream it got shallow with enough current to have to work upstream a little. I spent about 10 min in the boat and tried my beavertail and...

Thanks for the offer and anecdote D J! Your anecdote confirms my suspicion that this is not the boat for taking my wife lily dipping. Sure would be fun to try one though. Next time I'm up near you I might just drop you a line!

Thanks Alan for those additional thoughts - very useful. I suspect those latter hulls you mention are really what I should be aiming for to fit my needs. The rest of y'all are terrible influences! I keep thinking I'll flip boats but they come in and don't leave. At a certain point one has...

Sage words, thank you gentlemen. The problem with paddle and release is that my garage is already over capacity on boats. @recped and especially @Alan Gage 's descriptions are really useful. The issues with trim and sinking an end are obvious once pointed out but wouldn't have occurred to...

Thanks, Steve. Unfortunately I'm also out of storage room for canoes. Really need to move a couple more out of the stable rather than adding more in. Still....🤔

There's a Jensen VA-1 for sale near me. I've never been in such a boat. With utmost respect for the racers among us, I have absolutely no interest in racing. I do have interest in a better tracking, faster paddling boat just to see the sights and leave traffic noise behind faster. What's the...

A Sojourn recently popped up near me. I think you never tried to pole one? Do they turn when heeled? Thinking of some rivers around here that are mostly flat and deep but with an occasional 'bump and scrape' shoal, as well as a better tracking boat that the Phoenix for some lake outings...

@Glenn MacGrady I was musing on multipurpose boats this morning with the Hudson in mind. In particular, I was thinking about car-toppable boats that can be sailed or paddled/rowed. Does anyone ever sail va'as?

I actually started poling swamps with my 250cm double blade before I got a pole. I still use the double to pole sometimes on back country trips when I don't have a pole. I wouldn't do it in a rocky creek or strong moving water, but my double has held up really well to pushing in muck and...

I was just thinking myself how a longer carbon double would be nice.... I suspect I'm stuck with what I have, but maybe someone will donate one to your cause :)

Alan, thank you for the well thought-out and executed test. I appreciate your approach and effort. To me, this is the crux of it. When I switch to double is when I'm trying to make miles across a lake in my Phoenix during a trip (though I'm confident I don't have your skill or form with a...

@yknpdlr Well, a C4 crossing the plains is a pretty good test of a tie-down system! I didn't mean to imply your system was inferior or anything...just thinking through my own decision-making and looking for opportunities to compare, contrast, and learn. At the end of the day most systems...