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BB canoe-specific double blade paddles are good stuff, but the Werners are lighter weight, and the blade shape more of a cruising shape. The BB Orange SLICE has a CF shaft, but plastic blades. Mine held up fine, despite misgivings. I got it for occasional inadvertent rock bashing, lending...

It occurs to thst since some canoes are designed to be paddled with “kayak” paddles, they must not be canoes at all, but something else. How can something designed for a kayak paddle be a real canoe? We need a new term - maybe a “kayoo”. Henceforth those designs with floor mounted seat...

I’d like to see someone using an Impression in a kayak🤣. They’d be better off tying flippers to their elbows. Anyone who’s been solo on a remote windy lake in a loaded canoe will appreciate having that tool in their toolbox. In addition, many of today’s solo canoes are designed for double...

They work well. I use a 30* cant. The impression is a tad weighty, but I didn’t care back then. Wife paddled a Prism through Woodland Caribou with one. She didn’t seem to mind. I was in an Encounter and feel like the blade width was useful in the big boat.

Blades are also shaped different, but you mean like a sword and a knife? Like a limousine and a car. Like a musket and an AR15? Like a center and a guard? Like a dock and a pier? Like spaghetti and macaroni? Double blade canoe paddles have evolved over hundreds of years. They are distinctive.

Two for me. Read with one in the tent if I have a paperback. I have Black Diamonds - served me well.

First of all, a double canoe paddle is NOT a kayak paddle. Canoe paddles are longer. You’d be miserable using a 260-280cm paddle in most yaks. A big sit on top fishing yak might be the exception. Mostly, you could use a kayak paddle in a small canoe but not a double canoe paddle in a kayak...

I was thinking of some handlebar tape. Securing the live end might be challenging.

My trigger is my dominant (R) middle finger. Makes gripping anything painful. Opening jars is crazy hard. I figure if the shaft is wider, my fingers can deal better with the stress. Gonna try the cord wrap and see how that works. That’s if I can grip the cordage enough to get it tight...

That looks like something I could accomplish before my hands got all jacked. I’ll give the cordage one a shot. How far up should it extend?

Got more gloves than Jimmy Carter has pills.

Seems like some self-adhering rubber tape? Maybe peelable?

I’ve been dealing with Trigger Finger, which makes it hard to grip smaller circumference items. Is there a custom shaft diameter, or a diameter option paddle out there? Surgery might be in the future but not this year, by golly gosh darn. Thanks Tony

So ticks don’t like moose blood? Discriminating lil suckers.

My doc doesn’t bother with the test. When I present symptoms, she gives me antibiotics. Not sure the test helps unless the visible symptoms go undetected. My son contracted Lyme in SC, before heading to Europe for 6 weeks. He got pretty sick and they tested, treated him in Spain. He was...

My son got Lyme last year and I’ve had several nasty bites in recent years with suspicious symptoms. Doc has given me antibiotics 3 times in as many years. It seems that ticks are more infected than in the past. In Wisconsin, I completely stopped hiking in June after removing more than 30...

I used to rebuild and customize 1911s. I reloaded ammunition for 40 years. Now I can’t remember my last trip to the range. My shoulders went bad and now my wrists are going. Can’t grip a toothbrush let alone a 1911. I cook some. My specialty is hand tossed pizza.

I think people’ll be thick as flies up nort. With an influx of revenue, maybe the Atikokan Hotel can upgrade with screens in the windows.

Not much to do with bad weather, but I got the Yakima landing pads installed on the wife’s new (2025) RAV4. If you remember, I was fastidiously measuring every midsize SUV model’s roof rail contact points to discern the potential spread of roof rack crossbars. I want to be confident hauling 2...

Unfortunately, this effective closure of southern Quetico will compound traffic and permit demand in BWCA.