Recent content by yknpdlr

Bill, with that workout you shoule be ready to take on the "Cannonball 90" next.

This has long been the bane, especially of heavier canoes during the Adirondack 90 mile race. The ancestor of the suspenz type cart was called the 'Canadian Walker', with somewhat larger bicycle type wheels and no straight through axle to catch on high obstacles. I have three of them. When...

those old Sears Roebuck catalog glossy pages were rather waterproof. :cautious:

In the early 1980s, I wanted to make the trip from my home, not far west of the Blue Line, on a NE diagonal route across the Adirondacks to my daughter's then home, beyond Plattsburgh across a northern bay of Lake Champlain to near the ferry launch. I knew I would have many miles of carries, so...

Thank you. There are lots of those there.

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".