The Benefit Of The Gulf Stream

[Nick Dennis]

Where I live in the East of the UK we have a latitude of 52.41 degrees N. If I were on the otherside of the Atlantic that would put me in Alaska or in Canada, Alberta, Labrador or British Columbia. We have the benefit for most of the year from the warming effects of the Gulf Stream. This means that whilst many in the northern US and Canada have hard water and are frozen off the water we can still paddle.

So grab a coffee and enjoy watching an Englishman paddle a beautiful birchbark canoe on a fantastic English river; it was cold for us,1 degree C ( 34F) and there was ice on the canoe but there was the promise of a fantastic sunrise. The morning didn't disappoint. Spring will arrive .....eventually!

Turn your computer sound on, pick your coffee up, click the link and enjoy 2 minutes 55 seconds of mindfulness and have a very Happy Christmas.

Birchbark Canoe

Nick

 

[snapper]

Beautiful canoe and lovely outing. Thanks for bringing us along. Enjoyed your choice of music as well!

That's all for now. Take care and until next time...be well.

snapper

 

[Gerald]

Thanks for sharing. Beautiful canoe. Do you have the specs available? Curious about the freeboard.
G.

 

[Nick Dennis]

Thanks for sharing. Beautiful canoe. Do you have the specs available? Curious about the freeboard.
G.

Here is a link to the canoe and the builder which should give you the answers. This canoe does have a low freeboard and Henri has confirmed that he builds this version to be paddled but has built other variants with more freeboard for tripping Vaillancourt Canoes

Nick

 

[Benson Gray]

Do you have the specs available?

The full specifications for a variety of Malecite and other birch bark canoes can be found in The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America by Edwin Tappan Adney and Howard I. Chapelle. This is available at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/50828/50828-h/50828-h.htm and from other sources. It is one of the primary sources for most birch bark canoe builders today. The detailed analysis and plans at https://wcha.org/catalogs/penobscot/ provide the specifications for a similar Penobscot canoe. The picture below shows a quarter scale model of a Malecite canoe built from Adney's book.

Benson

 

[dutchlennart]

Hi nick, that seems almost the opposite of what the average english enthousiast uses normally. You look very happy is it. Glad to see you are doing so well. Great to see it in the water and not leaking horribly. Like to try oneday.