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Having built two freighters without keels, I can safely say that they track well under power. The 20 footer runs off a 6 horse. You will notice Esquif's offerings are also keelless. In order for a keel to have any noticeable affect on tracking, it would have to be substantially deeper than...

The "axing" of your knee, and your decision to carry on "after axe" adds another meritorious ribbon to your Dedicated Masochist award. Also, your decision to push on when you could have spent a glorious night in a beautiful cabin further enhances your DM status. Good work!

Lol, I'm Canadian. The metric system is official in Canada, although I operate in Imperial as well. The usefulness of a keel is often debated by canoeists. Most feel that a keel does not provide increased tracking ability (making it easier to go straight), and I don't think anyone would...

For many years in Canada, the Faber work binding was the preferred one for people who used traditional snowshoes for work, such as line cutters, prospectors, etc...

I'm thinking that since your contraption isn't a structural thwart, most any kind of wood would suffice, as long as it is treated to repel water. In most canoes, thwarts are usually very narrow, but important for hull rigidity, so hardwoods are preferred. However, given the stated uses for your...

For future reference, you should get your buddy to use the jointer on all your boards. The first step of getting good strips is having a perfect edge to begin with. I have just started ripping 1/4 inch strips for the new 20 footer, the first step after thickness plaining for consistency is to...

Perhaps do some more reading about the general shape and design of freighter canoes. "Rollovers" would be extremely unusual. If you compare a legitimate freighter canoe to a regular canoe, you will see that the size is generally bigger in most areas. My 20 foot freighter is extremely...

In the late 60's and 70's, I lived on a military airforce base in Nova Scotia. My Dad was a radar technician for the submarine hunting airplanes, first the Argus, then the Aurora. They covered a large area of the Atlantic Ocean, their primary job being the location of Soviet nuclear weapons...

Well played, and I know you have the high ground here, you broccoli murderer.

Good googly moogly, you 'Mericans will eat anything!

There is a type of burger you can make on a canoe trip, and never have to worry about salmonella. It's called the Spam burger, or in Canada, the Klik Burger. Open the Spam can.dump the contents into a pot or bowl, squeeze the heck out of the spam, shape it into burgers and cook in a cold...

My father introduced me to my first canoe trip, down the infamous Hassayampa River. The Hassayampa, a burly stream with its share of trout, rises in northern China, meanders through an Indigenous reserve in Northern Ontario, and empties finally into Elliot Lake, not a mile from where I lived in...

Looks like some people must just cruise around looking for lawsuits to file. I wonder if they can prove any damage to themselves from ingesting the approved preservatives? Back to Recep....I for one am glad there were preservatives that perhaps prevented our circular crater explorer from...

I'm not sure where the weight savings would be between an esquif t-formex and a stripper. Plus, you will not like the t-formex lite, it dents just by looking at it. Why not just build a new tandem stripper. Something in the 16 foot range, aim for a lighter build, you should be able to get it...

I built three winisks as well, loved that canoe. Debating right now about building a 17 foot prospector type canoe or a winisk for the school club. If I ever realize my plan to visit the States, I'll stop in for a day and replace your trim, lol.

Swift Quetico was my favorite, in fact, I built three of them, stretched one out to 20 feet. Took the 20 footer on many adventures, but gave it to my chum last year.

I know the whitewater guys like those cross forward strokes, but I've always found them to be useless if you are really trying to make headway in a wind. Better off just adopting a straight switch stroke and put the hammer down.

I think Swift is becoming like Garmin, with its smart watches. If you try to buy a garmin smart watch, you have to look at about 30 different models, all supposedly designed for one thing or another. Swift seems to following in a similar fashion, pretty soon there will be so many models, all...

Clipper is one of the only companies still keeping their canoes in a reasonable price range. However, the reason they can do so is probably related to the weight. They don't see to be chasing the ultra light categories like swift, where sub 40 and 30 pound boats routinely run between 5 and 10...