So excited! After much looking I purchased an Esquif Echo this past weekend. Need the temps to warm up to thaw our ponds and rivers up here in NH. I'm ordering a Red Leaf Splash Cover and have my NorthStar Footbrace. I need some advice on a yoke. I have seen aluminum ones online by Spring Creek. Are they comfortable? Good for a mile hike thru the woods? If not, which yoke would you go with. Thanks for your help in advance.
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The main question is a origninal echo or the 2.0 version..
Not sure of what jokes are local. I like the wenonah black cushions on them.
Not sure of what jokes are local. I like the wenonah black cushions on them.
Agree on the 1.0 or 2.0 question. And color. And gunwale material.
Wenonah makes a removable yoke that attaches to the web seat. Not cheap, but should work. It is one of the two pictured here:
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Attaches right at the front of the seat and projects forward, which should put it at or close enough to the balance point for easy carrying.
Edit. Also, pics of your footbrace? Riveted or adhesive?
Wenonah makes a removable yoke that attaches to the web seat. Not cheap, but should work. It is one of the two pictured here:
Removable Solo Canoe Yoke and Pads - Wenonah Canoe
One question we often get asked is; "How do you portage a solo canoe?" The answer is simple and elegant with our removable clamp-on solo yokes.
Attaches right at the front of the seat and projects forward, which should put it at or close enough to the balance point for easy carrying.
Edit. Also, pics of your footbrace? Riveted or adhesive?
It is not the latest Echo 2.0. It was a leftover. I hemmed and hawed about the 2.0 vs last version - the latest is 8lbs lighter but I got a really good deal on the leftover. It is olive green and the gunwale is the plastic material and weighs 45lbs.
So the package for the footbrace had fiber sides that attach via an epoxy. It's not warm enough to install them but when I do I will use the aluminum bracket like I've seen many do on this site. I wasn't crazy about putting a rivet thru my new canoe but I see where that makes the most sense.
I will post pictures once I install the footbrace. It is telescopic.
So the package for the footbrace had fiber sides that attach via an epoxy. It's not warm enough to install them but when I do I will use the aluminum bracket like I've seen many do on this site. I wasn't crazy about putting a rivet thru my new canoe but I see where that makes the most sense.
I will post pictures once I install the footbrace. It is telescopic.
I own one of those aluminum tower yokes with the sling-style aluminum-framed pads. I also have a canoe with a fixed wooden yoke and the same aluminum-framed sling pads. Don't use the first any more and use the second only because I have not got around to upgrading them.
Fundamentally I do not find the sling pads very comfortable. Better than nothing, but room for improvement.
If you goal is comfort (not weight)...I think the best non-diy solo option is a clamp on wooden yoke and then add the most cushy pads out there: Bourquin Yoke Pads
Fundamentally I do not find the sling pads very comfortable. Better than nothing, but room for improvement.
If you goal is comfort (not weight)...I think the best non-diy solo option is a clamp on wooden yoke and then add the most cushy pads out there: Bourquin Yoke Pads
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