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I have several and love using my long thin feather edge blade otter tail and other straight wood paddles. But they are meant for recreational cruising and multi-technique stroke use. Carbon bents were developed for ultralight weight strong efficient high power canoe racing. You can do a limited...

In my 30+ years of paddling and racing, I have well over 6000 documented miles of sit, or hit and switch as bow paddler in multi seat canoes (C2, C4, voyageur) in Adirondack area and Yukon River races plus team and solo race training. I am not usually a stock solo canoe racer, which utilizes the...

I've used tubular webbing in my Subarus for many years. never noticed any degradation of the loops. There happens to be a very convenient bolt placed just right under the hood. Under the hood of my Subaru Wilderness Forester:

Looks like you used single layer flat webbing from the hardware stor. Try to get some tubular webbing, it is much stronger. Definitely use a trucker's hitch plus a couple of half hitches with the excess line, holding moderate tension on the looped line. When not in use holding my canoe bow...

A great example of the point being completly missed. When I want to make time over open water, I apply power strokes, staying on one side or the other while paddling in a straight line, bow never wavering by more than a couple of degrees from my destination. I do not waddle like a duck with...

Years ago, I took a canoe paddling lesson from a paddling friend, who was an experienced instructor of the American Freestyle method. A final test was to first find a rectangular floating dock. Then, using a single blade canoe paddle, approach a side of the dock straight on, while remaining...

Although a serious mistake, it was not at the same level of the error difference between metric/imperial. The Hubble telescope optical image plane was correctable with an intermediary correcting lens. The trick was defining the precise prescription of the lens from studying the image plane point...

Let's not forget a $125M+ math mistake Metric or English. Not just the dollar value of the craft, but science information that was lost and not made up for for many years if ever. Which system are we using anyway? When NASA Lost a Spacecraft Due to an engineering Metric Math Mistake In...

In NY, no, the ursack since it is not solid and non-pliable material does not meet the requirements where a bear resistant canister is mandatory: Only canisters successfully tested by the IGBC pass the certification test. IGBC Certification: Products that successfully withstand the bear...

i have heard that some people, after they had just purchased a new car, will intentionally key the side of their own car, so they later won't worry about eventual dings and scratches. True or not, I do not know. I am definitely not among that camp. I like to keep my equipment in good shape from...

When I flew an AF cargo plane into the Philippines with military passengers, we were required to stop on the tarmac and keep the doors closed (in 100F temp) until local inspectors could visit us with scent dogs. The pilot frantically tried to capture a moth fluttering inside the window before...

If I knew or suspected I was going to be traveling in such waters, then I would bring a dedicated sacrificial old paddle just for that purpose. Or maybe a stick would serve the purpose just as well. I like to keep my paddles, and my canoes, as pristine as possible. With some 30 years of...

How do your paddles get "ragged edges"? Whitewater with lots of rocks? One of my major rules not be violated when teaching newbies about how to care for their equipment, is the paddle blade never touches earth (rocks, dirt, or sand). Not while out of water and not on the bottom when in water...

Chip, don't forget that there is a significant current to add to a racer's paddle speed, especially in the first segment after the lake, and after re-entry behind dams. From what you said you for sure would not like to do the Cannonball-90, the entire original traditional 90 mile Adirondack...

Which is as I rember the river during the race at the end of May. A few years ago for me also, the river entrance from the lake can be brisk, and lower down there can be a shortcut or two around grassy islands offered in high water, but the main channel is generally good going and a safer route...

I like to do the paddle across the gunwale method. Iif possible, as the blade shaft is gently held across the gunwales with both hands and the blade gently presses with slight force on a low dock or the land itself as I lean that way and easily step in one foot at a time. My other favored...

I bought a 2024 Wilderness Forester in Dec 23. I was surprised it did not have crossbars like my previous Subarus always had since 2004. But while my 2016 Forester Limited was still in the dealer's parking lot, I quickly removed the old crossbars. The fit was not perfect, but I could make it...

From the current edition of spaceweather.com: MOTHS FOLLOW THE MILKY WAY: Astronomers come in all shapes and sizes--even invertebrates. A new study published in Nature reveals that Australian moths can see and decipher the night sky. They pay particular attention to the Milky Way and seem...

Here's one batch of 4 full pans of my bannock cooking at a BSA trek adult leader guide training graduation for about 30 staff and students, including previous program grad guests. Graduation breakfast consists of voyageur theme bannock, maple syrup and jam, corn meal mush, fresh fruit, baked...

A local strip builder I know likes to use mixture of red/white cedar and a few strips of white pine for contrasting colors. A Yukon race team partner of mine raced the Water Safary in a black carbon canoe last year in temps of 100F+. Very brutal.