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I do have a friend who spends most of his time in a kayak, and he uses a double blade when tripping in his canoe. Works for him, and the rest of us with single blades have no problem keeping up. I recently bought a sea kayak that I paddle with a 210 Werner Shuna paddle with no feather. A...

Someday I am going to buy a John Kaz Millbrook - for me it will be the Outrage.

I'd join the OFPC, but you are a little far away. ;-) My solution has been to paddle with kayakers - so far they have been OK with having an old fart along.

That looks pretty good, and not much different than a normal metal hanger. It's been a while, but I do remember it having more slots than that, and I don't remember the cord lock. Maybe a later version. By the way, grunge is good!

Haven't seen one of those in a while. A friend had one with an adjustable seat that you could lower for sitting or raise for kneeling. Added to the weight but an innovative idea. Not sure paddlers actually move around that much.

It is a great boat. If it had symmetrical rocker like its composite cousin it would be even better.

Esquif does make a version in T-Fomex - Echo. Never seen one, but pretty similar specs to those old river runners. Not quite as expensive as composite, but still not cheap at around 2K.

A lot of posts here with folks looking for advice on composite boats – especially solo river runners. My first thought on seeing these posts is to recommend looking for a used Royalex boat, but I know they are hard to find. When I started paddling back in 2004 there was a nice group of solo...

He did fall off a couple of times playing in a squirrelly eddy line at the end of the trip. He just climbed back on the board and was on his way - much easier than emptying a swamped canoe. I have been out on a SUP in flatwater. It's fun as long as you are not out in the wind.

Back in September I ran the class III section of the West River below the Ball Mountain Dam during the fall release. The first rapid just below the dam is called Initiation. It’s one of those rapids that is relatively easy if you take the right line, but usually ends in disaster if you don’t –...

Not my car - I was getting a ride back to the put in. He did have a fold-up stacker bar that my canoe is strapped to. It does make it easier, but its not necessary. I only have a 60" bars on my car, so I often have to put boats on their side. I strap them down individually, and then run one long...

Yesterday's shuttle - my 12' Outrage on a Honda Fit. Tripping boat would have looked even better. There's a kayak on the other side, but no one cares about that.

I have a friend who brings a 1-hp trolling motor to trips on the Allagash. It seemed like cheating at first, but it sure made crossing those windy lakes a lot easier, and got us into camp with plenty of time to set up and gather wood for the fire. Rangers use them, so why not us.

For us, the fire is just part of the routine. After landing at our campsite we: Take a quick break, but not too long or you will run out of energy. Set up camp. Forage and cut up firewood. Get cleaned up. Move the chairs to the water to enjoy a cocktail while the dinner fire gets going. Cook...

Yup - first thing you do when getting to a campsite is drop a bag where you are going to set up your tent. To be honest, it usually works out that everyone gets a good spot sometimes, and a less-good spot sometime. If the same person was getting rocks and roots every night, we would make...

Individual tents for us - we spend enough time together, we don't need to be in the same tent. When you get 4-5 people in a group, having enough room can be a problem on smaller sites, but we usually make out OK. If we had to double up we could. I have 1, 2, and 3-person tents. The 3-person...

First thing you need to figure out is what is "cold" water, and when do you have it. If you go with ACA guidance, cold water is 60 degrees. Around here (southern New England), water temperatures don't hit 60 degrees until around May, and drop below 60 degrees again around October, so anyone...

MVP is more about whitewater trips - many class 3 and up. NHAMC has a whitewater group and a river tripping/canoe group that are pretty active. Being an open boater I paddle more with NHAMC. I sent you a PM with the contact info for NHAMC.

For 21-years, the MVP and NHAMC have been sponsoring the year-end Drawdown and BBQ on the class II section of the Piscataquog River below the Gregg’s Falls Dam in NH. Jonathan and I were planning to do a tandem run, so we rounded up a few other tandem boaters to join us – a tandem boat posse...

@Nick Pending - those pictures are great. Nick Pending - those pictures are great. This is not exactly a sequence, but three drops on the same river - the Scantic in CT.