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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:

Kharrick, welcome to site membership! Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Many of the site's technical features are explained in Features: Help and How-To Running...

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...

They probably don't want to stock different stains and web colors. If you bought and sent Ed's the right color stain and webbing, maybe they would be willing to make a custom seat if you don't want to do it yourself with a bare wood frame from them.

Looks unhealthy to me to portage such heavy loads for so long that a hypertrophy like that would appear. Maybe a medical person like @pblanc could explain what this is and why it would happen.

Finding things is an interesting addition to the topic. I've retrieved a few lost paddles on whitewater rivers, but except for one nice Mad River Mitchell they are all heavy plastic raft paddles that I've never used. The most unusual find was when @TomP, his father and I were testing canoes...

Congrats to you and @Kharrick, who paddles bow in her now out-dated avatar picture. What canoe did you use, and was it yours or one that NOC supplied?

. . . and found again or never found. In the early 1980s, I lost my big Bill's Bag full of all my gear when rescuing my Mad River Explorer from being pinned at the head of class 5 Coal Mine Falls on the Eel River in California. I had dumped in the previous class 3 rapid and was rescued by a...