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Silky makes the best pruning saws, in my experience, and in many sizes. I've had a 14.2" curved blade Silky BIGBOY 2000 and a 9.5" curved blade ULTRA ACCEL for eight years and love both. I use the BIGBOY for larger stuff on my 11 acres, and usually take the ACCEL on canoe trips along with a...

Ain't that the trashy social media truth. I've used Google's AI quite a bit, and some other one that's not ChatGPT. My experience has been mixed. Sometimes it does a fast and thorough job of answering questions and summarizing areas of knowledge, presumably when it has access to accurate...

Not sure about this analogy, but water tank testing has been done on canoe paddles to compare flat power faces, positively cambered (convex) faces, and negatively cambered (cupped or curved) power faces. Curved power faces are the most powerful. They hold a "puddle" of water within them as...

I suspect both "camber" and "dihedral" are words borrowed by the canoe paddle world from the airplane world. Note from @Dana's diagram above that even symmetrical camber, creating a zero mean camber line, still produces a teardrop shape from the front of the airfoil wing to the back. The...

Patrick with a wood cue before he started making carbon ones. Fast Eddie and Minnesota Fats used wood cues, too.

So far, this is the most complex and entertaining "put-in-get-in-and-start-the-bloody-trip" story I've ever encountered. So funny . . . and with all the sensory details, I can identify with your feelings.

Edge protection is very important. Many factory paddles don't have it. Does Dynel come in strips, or do you have to cut it off of big blocks or sheets? Is it glued on? With what?

Gail, welcome to site membership! Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Also, because canoeing is a geographic sport, please add your location to the Account Details...

"Camber" and "dihedral" are usually (but perhaps incorrectly) used as synonyms when talking about paddle blades. I assume by camber you are referring to the thinning out—or the sloping of—each facet of the blade from a central "spine" to the edge of the blade. Highly cambered blades, like some...

Simply, Pat Moore called his paddles "cues". Canoe paddles other than his were "primitive", so his deserved a special name. He custom designed each one so it could control a "sport canoe" with the precision and accuracy of Fast Eddie's pool cue. More wordily, I will quote from Patrick Moore's...

I agree, so I moved the discussion of Pat Moore Cue paddles to this thread for that topic. @gumpus, you seem to have more experience with Pat Moore Cues that I do. I'd be interested in knowing the dimensions, and seeing pictures, of your Grand Classic (small blade) and Sport Classic (medium...

@gumpus then said: "I don't want to distract too much from Marc's awesome thread. Pat had at least 2 standard blade sizes (Small = huge, Medium = cartoon size) and at least several standard lay-ups...and I'm not sure what he considered ideal balance. I have one 57" Grand Classic with small blade...

I bought a brass candle lantern 45 years ago from a company called Early Winters, which I just found in my cathedral of entropy (aka basement). I'd forgotten about it all this time and through several cross-country moves, and don't recall ever using it or even lighting it. Some questions for...

The racks are for 50 lb. kayaks in this video, but with some spacing modifications the concept should work for canoes. I suppose this isn't rocket science for experienced woodworkers, but it's a step-by-step visual example of one rack construction method for walls.

Yes, this is one of the many examples in canoeing where we have terminology differences that end up confusing communication. Sometimes there are many different words to describe the same canoe stroke or move, and sometimes (as here) we have the same word ("carve") describing two different...

"Welcome to Fastest Known Paddle (FKP)" "Making an FKP attempt is a wonderful adventure. Escape to the beautiful world of the river (or lake(s)/ocean) and get swept up in the excitement of the challenge!" "Current number of FKP’s logged on the site: 34 (in a variety of categories), on 25...

Me too. "Plane" shaved up an image of a canoe-building tool in the windmills of my mind.

I had not heard of a "tangent" until I saw this video. I subsequently learned it is primarily a tandem maneuver, but I had never really heard of it in that context either until recently. Perhaps someone could explain what a tangent turn is when paddling tandem and when paddling solo. Maybe there...

I hope posting this video is okay with our member @dutchlennart. After all, he must have consented to it's being posted on YouTube nine years ago. The idea behind this video is a contest between two of the best known freestyle canoeists in Europe, Mark Maier and Lennart Bal. It's an unusual...

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