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It should be pointed out that the Mustang Khimera is a hybrid vest, meaning it has only 7.5 lbs. of foam flotation but can be inflated to 20.5 lbs. I've had and used a hybrid vest all over the country for over 20 years. It's my favorite vest for warm weather paddling—a Kokatat SeaO2—because of...

Item 12 under "Need to Know": https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/234130?tab=info

Gotta be the longest, most detailed and most highly pictured trip report of Manicouagan Reservoir on the internet. Paddled, no less, in a usually whitewater river canoe, with a basophobic Indonesian fuzzy-wuzzy, an infinite Costco chicken, and some igneous moon rocks. Thanks so much, recped!

DBix, 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...

I strongly DISbelieve in spending excessive money on life jackets for flat water, so you may want to ignore this message. My belief is that all life jackets rated for 15.7 lbs. of buoyancy (level 70) will be sufficiently buoyant for safety in non-whitewater, and that the only differences will be...

I'm not a fisherman, much less an ice fisherman, but I got interested in this YouTube short I encountered about pumping air under ice to prevent fish kill. Is this something people actually do or just another fake or AI video?

We've had a couple of threads with linked videos from Australian member @Canoe Down Under in 2022: https://www.canoetripping.net/threads/greetings-from-down-under.127673/#post-138983 https://www.canoetripping.net/threads/paddling-gondwana.127814/#post-140901 Perhaps he could be a source of...

Some Moore Canoeing School pictures from the Wayback Machine. Where's the Andante? This may be Pat and his instructors, Kimberly, Tom and Brian.

Pat Moore denied that his "cod head" canoes were fishform, if fishform is defined as having the center of buoyancy ahead of the longitudinal center. That misconception arises from the fact that an overhead plan view of his gunwale line (not his waterline) will show a gunwale flare ahead of the...

COW, I'm curious as to why my "Happy Day" Jack Kerouac birthday notice is the title of this thread. Did his journeys have something to do with Ross Lake or Desolation Peak? One aspect is that I've learned that emojis can be put in thread titles. Never knew that.

BF, maybe you said this in another thread, but what adhesive did you use? Also, two questions about the foot bar. Did you have to bend the bracket at all to follow the curvature of the hull? And how does that bar slide forward and back on the bracket, given that the hull width narrows from back...

Savage River offers light Textreme in various colors. It is a lighter fabric than regular Textreme and the fibers are dyed to get the colors. For both of those reasons, Savage River recommends an outer skin of S-glass. As a result, this layup is very expensive and may be a pound heavier than a...

I've never had Chip's issue on my Hemlock SRT tractor seat, but I began having tailbone pain when driving long distances in my car. A cushion with a tailbone cutout solved the problem.

Thanks for the pictures. I love cypress and tupelo swamps.

Steve, as of today, the entire Grand Ronde watershed seems to be in the red (~drought) area of your snow water equivalent link. Are you prepared to travel 6,000 miles round trip to paddle a bony river? Your bucket hat survived and made it into your avatar!

Very nice looking canoe, Joe. I didn't know a carbon fusion layup could come with a tinted exterior and a basalt-Innegra interior, and at such a low weight. Swift is so cutting edge when it comes to materials and aesthetics.

I believe you would find the Placid Rapidfire and certainly the Spitfire too initially unstable with kneeling seats. @yknpdlr has a Rapidfire with a kneeling seat, so maybe he will chime in. The Spitfire is only 12 foot length overall, not 13. For what you want to paddle, I'd prefer forward...

WCS has been running for at least a decade. It's organized by Tracy Hunt and Paul Klonowski.

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"You are invited to the Wisconsin Canoe Symposium (WCS)! The symposium is located in Westfield, WI, approximately 60 minutes north of Madison, WI. Arrive as early as Thursday afternoon and paddle through mid-day on Sunday." "NEW THIS YEAR: You can arrive as early as Wednesday afternoon...