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I've done the same with a bent shaft (knowing how angles work), but my paddle is only 48 inches long, a bit of a reach for such a short paddle in an 18-6 canoe. (That's not a joke < grin >)

I used my carbon/Kevlar bent shaft and left the otter and beaver tails on the poor mustalids and castorids. (That's a joke!)

I tried poling back in the mid 1970s, but didn't like it because we did a lot of deep-water paddling and a pole didn't seem of much use to me in deep water. That and I knew how to brace and there isn't one with a pole in deep water, or at least for me. I bought a 6-foot paddle and did a lot of...

Recurve stems require either a two-piece mold or split end mold so they can get the finished hull out of said mold. That recurve blocks demolding of the finished hull whether composite or rubber (meaning Royalex or T-Formex or other similar material use). If the stems are slightly out of plumb...

I don't know about other Ontario canoeing parks, but Quetico at least for a while had a maximum group size of nine people. Again, I don't know if that is still in effect. When that was in effect, if someone wanted to fill a trip, they needed four tandem canoes and a solo boat, or three tandem...

Back in the day, 1970s and earlier, racing, and likely flatwater sprint racing at that, pretty much dictated kayak paddle feather angles, and 90 degrees was universal solely for wind resistance of the blade in the air traveling forward. In fact, sprint racers I knew advocated the nondiminant...

Only if it's an otherwise symmetrical boat?

It's a pretty and relatively benign run. A couple easy rapids, one was a bit rocky at low water on our first trip. The river channel changes once in a while in flatter sections because of flooding, but the gradient isn't such that there's much problem. Could be log jams as a result. I recommend...

I've done the Big Salmon a couple of times, though it's been many years. I think our last run on it was 1997. We were all paddling tandem though. Have fun.

The only asymmetrical solo canoe I've ever seen was in the early 1970s when I was still in the Chicago area, and I was working at a canoe shop there. The guy I worked for was the main organizer for the annual DesPlaines River Marathon, a very well attended race. Participant numbers were cut off...

Glenn, the red canoe in the picture Steve sent doesn't look like a Molitor to me. Those shiny gunnels look like aluminum to me, but could be something else. Not that it can be told for sure from the picture, but the exterior red finish looks more like mistreated fiberglass than painted canvas. I...

I've slipped and fallen a few times while on shore, and one of those I tore up the back of my hand pretty good, required an emergency room stop on the way home from the river that day. That's the only time I can remember in about 55 years of paddling that I truly hurt myself, but I could be...

This is somewhat fortuitous timing as I'm having some slow private conversations right now with a few members, and more with nonmembers about canoeing related injuries. I don't know how much we can actually provide on the subject, certainly nothing that will make any medical journals, but I'm...

Thanks, Alan. I knew that denatured alcohol was the fuel, but that appelation covers a fairly wide variety of concentrations, cut up to 10% (and maybe more) with "denaturing" poisons. The way I'm seeing it, the "best" seems to be minimal adulteration. And checking around does indicate wide...

I've never had or used or been on a trip with an alcohol stove, or at least not that I remember. I would expect that they would not be very common, primarily be used only by the experienced campers who would be more careful with them in the first place than the typical weekend warrior. Accidents...

Sorry, got sidetracked by the phone and missed the bottom paragraph of that post of yours, came back and responded ill-informed. You're on it. Do it. And have fun.

It's not been an issue for me in the boats I have, but none of them are Swifts, and out here much of the worry is up and down in elevation (4-6K feet isn't uncommon). If you don't have float chambers, you could just carry small end airbags and inflate and use them when you think it might be...

Not bad, but I bet you can knock another 10 pounds off that without too much problem. Might have to lighten up woodwork to make that. The next one is a full core rather than ribbed, right? Good luck with it.

Final weight, please? And weight of original boat (maybe listed further upthread?) Thanks

Man, these eastern paddlers will do and put up with anything to stick with their wooden boats! My go-to canoe is only 18-1/2 feet long, but that 42 pounds is what kept me sticking with her. (This response is meant as a joke!)