Recent content by yknpdlr

Everyone has a first time in the 90. Many folks are in it only for the experience of it without regard to competition. With up to 275 paddle boats of all kinds in the race, not everyone is a racer. There is an optional non-racing class for those who feel intimidated by those who choose to be...

That is one of my most preferred methods of getting into a solo canoe, works in a tandem too. Especiallly useful in shallow water that I can stand in with a skinny canoe. I learned the hard way when doing that a beaver dam. Be careful not to lean over too far backwards. Ask me how I know. I...

Lumbar back issues have prevented me from joining some of the smaller Adirondack regional races this season. After an RF ablation procedure, Healing (and heeling) is now making good progress while in solo canoe training, so I am working on refurbishing a used Savage River Saranac C4 I have...

Why?

Oh, not really, these are people in my private lake association, and they knew me well as a board member and committee chair of the "lake management and protection committee". I am the canoe paddler training daily on the lake full of local lot owner kayakers. I have made announcements of free...

When I was stationed in OH in the Air Force, I bought a "lightweight" thin skin model Grumman for my family use. I was surprised to learn that unlike my native NY, OH required me to register the canoe and apply a registration number to the hull. When I moved back to NY I removed those ugly...

I've had the same question from locals as I paddle solo, either recreationally, or while race conditioning training on my small lake association lake with kayak witnesses. I simply say 'it is magic" and offer in our news letter to provide free canoe lessons to anyone who may care to learn. So...

Do they have prints available for purchase?

When I paddled my 10.5' Hornbeck on a `185 mile trek across the Adirondacks, with a fulll week of gear and food onboard, I found that if I centered all my gear weight under my legs and kept bow and stern light, that little boat would bob its bow up and over waves in high wind with big waves...

Hence an alternative name for a tandem canoe is a "divorce boat".

What I advise concerned scouts when paddling in broad open water is to buckle their backpack hip belt around a thwart if that makes them more comfortable, instead of roping it in with knots that would be difficult to untie when wet. at least that way they can relatively easily unbuckle the pack...

I have one, almost never used, that has 4 wings that unfold when I unscrew the bottom. Very compact, aluminum construction, light and easy to use. No sharp or pointy edges. I bought it probably over 30 years ago.

I have a cottage on a small private non-motors lake with about 70 members with lake shore property (all 200 inland members have lake access from a beach and three other member access points). Kayaks far outnumber canoes. I am regularly on the lake doing my race training, and monitoring the lake...

This question often comes up during BSA introduction to canoe camping, in particular what a BSA trained high adventure leader does and says. During trek leader guide canoe training class, BSA wants us to teach deep water canoe over canoe rescue to our guide students. But if packs and other gear...

But then again I am as likely to be tripping with a Hennessey hammock, unless I need to be i a tent in the shoulder seasons, or I expect a hard weather trip. My hammock easilyslips into its integral "snake skin" sylnylon tube with no folding required.