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Good question! I just measured the blade angle of a Zaveral Medium paddle using a crude plastic protractor and get around 12 degrees but it's a very rough measurement. I'll have to think of a way to more accurately measure blade angle.

I just don't handle the cold as well as I used to so avoid the potential for cold water swims. A dry suit would certainly extend the season but I'd still think twice about paddling with water temps below 45F or so, even on flat water. Besides, there are plenty of other things to do that time of...

There are useful pieces of information from both websites but it's up to each person to honestly assess how they'd react to cold water immersion and whether they would be able to rescue themselves. I know my ability to respond has declined considerably over the years due to reduced strength...

I tried using my Sigg-Tourist cookset (bought with the SVEA 123 in 1972) with a MSR Whisperlite stove but had to modify the opening of the windscreen and didn't find a good way to have the burner at the right height. The Pocket Rocket might work better but it looks like it's a bit tall and might...

I bought my first canoe when was in my early 30's, a well-abused Blue Hole OCA tandem whitewater canoe. A heavy Royalex beast that must have weighed 80 pounds. It had been wrapped around a rock in a rapid so there was a sizeable crease in the hull with bent and warped gunnels. But I installed a...

Building a wood strip canoe was a goal of mine back in the day but I now accept that if I haven't built one by now, it's never going to happen. So, I'm impressed when I see someone build one, let alone two or more. A stupid naive question, but without a table saw, how do you keep the strips...

The Western PA Solo Canoe Rendezvous is a good one. It's held outdoors (including sleeping) but there are probably local motels that would work great to stay in. I especially like that you can paddle different canoes on the pond (with permission) and talk with people that really know their...

Clever!

Well, I got a reply from the retailer and this is what he told me about the new W A Fisher maps... "This year W A Fisher made the decision to change the aesthetic of their maps. ... sometime this spring they started shipping us these newly updated maps... which have more bold colors than the...

Here's a shot of the Cirrus Lake area on the overview map showing the boundary shading I mentioned and a portion of map F-26 showing how the boundary is typically shaded on the individual maps. Online images of older printings of F-28 show a similar shading. So it appears the edition of map F-28...

Well, Coyote is the trickster. ;)

I recently ordered some WA Fisher Maps for Quetico Provincial Park and received one that is misprinted, or at least that's what I'd call it, and wondered if it's a one-off problem. The misprint appears to be an error in the scaling of the shaded border along the Quetico boundary and makes it...

I just heard this story told on the Moth on NPR... The Cussing Canoeist The witness's account of the event while on the stand is priceless.

The Clipper Packer is a canoe I've wondered about. It's an interesting design and seems like a really versatile canoe, even with a tractor seat.

Thank you, Benson, I ran the tracert and pathping tools and found that there were time-outs occurring at some of the addresses shown in the list. That probably explains the freezeups/dropouts I was getting. And several sites had long response times. I tried a router reboot last night and things...

Thanks. I'll try flushing the router cache later today.

The past several days I've been experiencing slow (or no) responses to mouse clicks or finger pokes on the screen at this website. I have to click (or poke) twice to get links/buttons to open up. At first I thought it was the mouse or touch screen on our laptop but the same problem occurs with...

I've paddled the Magic enough to have an idea of its performance and it's a wonderful canoe, but for my weight I prefer the Kestrel for its reduced length and width for paddling ease and maneuverability. Plus, I now have a fast solo tripper so the Magic would be somewhat redundant. I would like...

I've wondered how the Merlin 2 compares with my Hemlock Kestrel. Not so much about which canoe is better but more about how they differ in speed/efficiency, maneuverability, and stability. I might like the Merlin 2 more than I want to. ;) gumpus, your comment about the maneuverability of the...

Excellent! Good to know that the Bending Branches grips fit a Zaveral shaft. I was thinking of doing the same with my ZRE straight paddle, which I want to shorten to use on shallow streams. The BB grips aren't ideal for palm rolling but I like them better than the hit-and-switch grips Zaveral...