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I wouldn't want to have a loop of rope dangling from a lining hole. That would be as bad as a kludge of leaves stuck on the cutwater. Lining isn't a frequent occurrence, at least in my canoeing life. I'd reposition the painters through the lining holes only when I actually need to line. How long...

A bleach bottle bailer always worked for me, albeit perhaps slowly. In the 1970s-90s (don't know about today) the Boston AMC club was famous for lashing in two long ethafoam planks under the inwales on each side of their canoes, sort of like sponsons. With those planks the paddler could heel...

Wow, the sky and water expanses in that first photo are stunning. Is that a lake, a river or an ocean fjord?

That may be a reasonable option if you don't like a sitting bucket seat. The Swift seats and Conk seats with down curved front rails are really optimized for kneeling. The down angle may not be comfortable for a sitter because your weight might be too much on the front rail or back rail...

That's a gorgeous picture, BPR—the landscape subject, the framing, the lighting. What kind of camera did you use?

She did explain and demonstrate the opposite: If you dip the leading edge when paddling faster than the water flow, the paddle will dive, thereby risking going huli. Same thing with a roll: If you dive the leading edge while sweeping, the roll will fail.

Lots of folks leave discussion forums, almost always for reasons unknown. I miss a lot of the posters who left here, and can't help worrying about the older ones.

We've just had a thread by @Black_Fly showing, with a list of tools and components, how he drilled lining holes through stems with empty air tanks. But suppose the tanks were filled with foam, as some are. How would you tool and DIY folks best and neatly do that task?

@Black_Fly, did you have to drill/saw through foam in the air tanks or were they empty?

Your story reminds me that I did essentially the same thing. On the morning of a seven day Adirondacks trip, before I drove to the shuttle service, I went into a McDonalds to use the rest room. I had my one and only knife in my pants pocket. When I left the rest room I apparently no longer had...

For example: https://www.nrs.com/hydroskin/c5289

You don't have to get a one piece wetsuit. There are two piece wetsuits that you can search out and buy separately—long pants, short pants, sleeved tops, sleeveless tops. Mix and match different components/sizes for for different water and air temperatures.

SUP. Or become Danny Ching:

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Truckerman08, that product appears to have nothing to do with tying a canoe on top of a vehicle. If you are attempting to advertise commercially, that is not allowed on this site. We welcome discussions of canoes, canoeing and the related topics specified in our several forum descriptions.

Yes, the ama is irrelevant to the brace. With an ama, you don't need to brace on the ama side. With no ama, you can't brace on the non-paddle side with a single stick. Oh, there are skilled single stick whitewater paddlers who can do a sort of cross-over brace, but it's not really effective...

Yes, good point. I meant it would seem unhealthy to portage that much weight for such long times to produce such a hump, today, when it's not necessary for life to do so.

Nice job, Tony. For those who might come upon this thread first, it might be informative to describe what tools you used to make the clean hole, what diameter hole, what component parts you used, and where you got them.

In this short video, Tuperia King, both a long distance and sprint world champion who uses the Tahitian forward stoke technique, explains why your top arm should be bent on the recovery and catch rather than straight. A bent arm allows you to put more down pressure on the paddle with your slight...

In an outrigger canoe, which is the fastest open canoe as well as the most exciting to surf waves with. It's unfortunate that this wonderful type of canoe hasn't caught on more outside of the U.S. west coast as day paddling and exercise craft. Plus no correction strokes or side switching...