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May I ask why you did not like the Shadow? I had wanted one for several years, because on the 90 mile race it wipes all of the previously sold RapidfFire and similar solo canoes. But I was turned off because while I always see Joe winning his race class on the 90 mile canoe race (now with his...

I think you will like the RapidFire veruy much. It is faster and more stable with an easy single blade paddle stroke than you may expect, not quite as light weight (by only a couple of pounds) or as fast (by only a couple of tenths mph) than the less stable narrower PB Shadow and has just...

It is along a paved road through the campground. So a race run by physically carrying a canoe, or with wheels goes fast. Less than half way through Day1 of the 90 miler, while you are relatively fresh with cheering fans along the way as you pass by. Look at the map. it is indeed 0.91 mile. Takes...

Some campers like to dally in camp and move slowly. I know that young first time boy scouts with no canoeing experience (one day intro) would commonly take this route, beginning at 8th Lake as a five day paddle/camping trek Monday pm to Friday AM. So I have no doubt that a reasonably...

I had not heard about the PCBs. At one time there was a leftover large building near the entrance of the gated road by the upper dam that was scheduled to be removed until it was discovered that it was full of asbestos paneling and siding. I remember seeing it on the way to the BSA camp. That...

On paper that is technically correct. i tried breaking the portage to LL like that once. And only once. And I was not even in any 20 hour Cannonball hurry at the time, just on a leisurely week long camping trip to Plattsburgh with a Hornbeck before the NFCT even formally existed. I hated it and...

The pond beyond the beaver dam east of Site #8 are the wood and steel circular structures called cistern wells. Did you notice how clear and pure the water looks in there? A. A. Low was ahead if his time. He sold bottled water from them to cities downstate from "Adirondack Mt’s Virgin Forest...

Bill, not sure exactly what you are after. I believe you are doing a segment along the Cannonball-90 original 90 mile route. I have a spread sheet listing Cannonball distances and times (at selected paddle and carrry speeds) between siignificant points on that route. The beginning of the...

Certainly. Not just a tandem C2, but also a C4 and a six-paddler voyageur canoe. When we paddle the unofficial "Cannonball-90", the entire Adirondack 90-mile route all within a single day, which includes a total of 10 miles of overland single pass carries. The single longest being 3.75 miles...

During our mandatory 6 hour "night" rest stops to camp while on the Yukon River 1000 mile races, we would completely empty our voyageur canoe from all gear and evidence of daytime snacking activity, and pulled it way up on shore, hoping no snooping walk through by any multi hundred pound...

That's my feeling about them too.

Yeti coolers claim to be tested and certified bear resistant, but you have to put bolts or padlocks in the corner hold downs. I used a 120 liter Yeti when I paddled a large voyageur canoe on the first Yukon 1000 mile race, when an excessive amount of food (20kg/paddler x7) was required by the...

Me too. Here is how we made use of an aluminum Grumman on a BSA Adirondack trek I was leading on the Oswegatchie traverse. I don't think I wold have dared let them (or myself) cook on my cedarstrip that I was using on this trip.

The family son, Andy Fox, worked as an Adiondack BSA guide and instructor with me for a few short years, then he went to work making canoes for Placid Boatworks in Lake Placid. I raced in the 90 miler with him a couple of times. After he got tired of breathing the resin fumes at PB, he moved on...

The sliding seat is not used as a dynamic slider while paddling. Although I can easily move it forward and back to fixed positions while on the water, its main purpose is to adjust trim for different wind and wave conditions. My PB Rapidfire and Shadow have similar movable seats, but with fixed...

Since the BW gunwales have no innwale for a yoke clamp to grip, I asked Ben to glue in small carbon blocks that my yoke would clamp to at the balance point. I also use a hand line at my waist attached bow to stern to control the up/down tip of the canoe while carrying. I remove the pads from...

Ben told me it would weigh in at 19 pounds and that is what I measure in the final product at home. Everything that can be carbon is carbon. Sliding race style seat with attqched sliding footbrace. A real joy to paddle and easy to carry. Even without any significant rocker I am able to turn...

You might give Ben Diller at Savage River a call to discuss various strength and durability options of their layups. Last fall I received a new Blackwater solo canoe in Texreme Lite, promised at and measured at 19 pounds. it is to become my new flatwater and slow river tripping canoe. I have no...

As a primary race bow paddler, my feet are regularly squished in the narrowing bow directly in front of my seat. I have various configurations and thicknesses of rigid foam blocks to press my feet against. Depending on the boat, for long marathon races, I often attach squares of thin foam...