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I'm 5-11 and I use a 32" (grip-to-throat) for straight and bent in flat water, and a 35" for moving water and FreeStyle.

If I were heading out on a mixed-water trip (some flat, some moving to perhaps Class II), the two store-bought blades I would take would be a Wenonah Black Light Straight, and a Grey Owl Beavertail.

Tilting the boat toward 'the high side as the boat turns away from the current' has the effect of freeing-up the bow-- or indeed bringing the bow completely out of the water. Now the oncoming flow is pressing more astern, and the boat will turn back into the flow. This is an off-side or outside...

dougd-- to be clear, by 'keeper' I mean your canoe has become a keeper or 'hole' by the way it's lodged in mid-stream! I meant no disrespect to you or that nice canoe. There's a classic hole or keeper on the upper Kananaskis River called 'The Widow-maker'!

When wind and waves are coming from in front (as opposed to from behind), the dynamics that create and exacerbate yaw are reversed. If the wind (headwind or tailwind) is blowing exactly perpendicular to the waves, and your desired course is exactly straight ahead, and your paddling technique is...

jmhockey23-- I looked at your website and was very impressed by your very beautiful paddles. That build-up model is labour-intensive, but stunning when it's done. Should I find the energy to build one of these sanding drums I'll drop you a note; thank you very much!

Here's a note on Type I and Type II glues. http://www.fdmcdigital.com/article-details/category/materials/articleid/92229/title/waterproof-and-waterresistant-adhesives.aspx

Very impressive! Good work.

Someone may surely be able to express this more clearly and succinctly, but this is how I understand it. I'll be discussing the 'turn' aspect of the subject-- the turn happens first, and the broach is the result. In waves, the water mostly bobs up and down and moves in trains of local circular...

Hi Merlin. The cleat will be plenty strong as the load is mostly shear. Peel loads will be introduced as the cleat is torqued when the seat is flexed. As Jim said, an issue arises when you want to move the seat-- it's easy raising it because you can shim it, but lowering the seat requires...

The Sitka spruce Beavertail is finally finished.

Stop! There are alternatives to Mr. Jacobson's method that you may wish to consider. Measuring down from the top of the stem isn't helpful-- rather, use the proper waterlines as a guide. Don't leave a loop of rope dangling out of this hole-- tie into it when you need to on the river. The DWL...

Simply put, this is when the boat is turned off-course to arrive broadside to wind and waves. The turning of the boat, however-- the yawing, slewing, or sudden rotation about the vertical axis is where the meat of the story lies. Where do these turning forces come from, and what can we do to...

Mac, very very nice! Good work, and congratulations!

You know, people do the same with airports: they know they're building half-a-mile from an airport, but after a year they're heading up a community group petitioning the closure of the airport. Bizarre.

Steve, you're a warrior-- I salute you!

My most-used cam straps had some slippage in that area where the cam clamps most often. It was clear that this section of the straps was soiled with finger sweat and road grime, sort of polished matte-grey like the sweatband of a paddling hat at day's end in August. The cams are still sharp...

When I made the plug for the Caribou S, I didn't use the Random Orbital Sander at all. On convex curves like the chines, I removed the peaks between boards with a spokeshave, filled voids with West System 105-205 and 407 fairing filler, and went straight to the longboards with Norton A275...

Preamble. The bubbles that appear in that grid pattern are surely fabric-related, and perhaps they travel as micro-bubbles along the fine filaments in each tow and collect at the intersections of warp and weft where the material is thickest, and nearest the surface. Don't know. But the...

Rex Murphy, one of my heroes, did a nice piece on The National tonight. http://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/rex-murphy-fort-mcmurray-wildfire-1.3569425