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No experience with this but I would try a large diameter pool noodle with a slit?….lots cheaper

Great report, thanks for the museum pics. I met Kirk Wipper (sp?) and looked at canoes many years ago when the collection was kept at a summer camp in some odd old buildings. Amazing to see what it has become! Have to make it there someday.

How about a report on the museum? Really want to go someday. Pics would be amazing if they let you take any

Welcome. Used to hang out at CanoeSport on weekends, driving 3 hours up from central OH. Great shop, great folks, travelled with Ned and Ron a couple times. Bought several boats there. Great forum here. Hope you get back on the water soon!

Have to agree. Glad for the continuation of the company but if I buy from them again I would ask for no logo…the old design was much classier.

Welcome! Happy to see some young folks getting introduced to the sport. Pics always welcomed.

I understand that…used to be like that. But as I have said here before, a canoe is a tool and tools get used. At least it’s the sort that won’t rust. The wonderful experience of paddling is worth more to me than the scratches. It’s as close to being graceful as I will ever get 😉

Those baggies shorts were THE shorts of choice for paddlers….at least in the midwest and down to the NOC back in the day.

At least you have a lifelong memory and a “topper” when campfire tales are told.

Great job…a canoe is just a tool…and tools get used. At least this one won’t rust 😉

Phenomenal TR…thanks so much for taking us along. Glad it ALL worked out at the end and you are happy.

Not sure I would call myself an expert but know Apple pretty well…Find My works from any Apple device and from your account at iCloud.com from any computer. Here’s a complete description for interested Apple folks. https://www.apple.com/icloud/find-my/

Apple devices have a built in feature called Find My which can give the location of any of your devices or people you share locations with. You can lock, erase the device, or place a message on the lock screen remotely. You can also make any device play a sound to help find it around the house...

Looks like fun to me! Considering the cost of getting US made canoes to Europe those are some dedicated paddlers.

Welcome! Look forward to some trip reports from across the pond!

You sometimes are asked to write about something specific but that doesn’t necessarily compromise the writer’s integrity. Was fortunate enough to take Harry Roberts down my local river in Ohio and he asked me to write about it for Paddler magazine. I was flattered and I did it with the affection...

Canoes turn away from the heel given no countering corrective stroke. Extreme banana boats sometimes may be an exception but usually not. Run a hull level and true with no correction then heel to the right and the hull turns left.

Certainly do miss those days…the heyday of solo canoeing. Replete with characters, excitement over something “new” at canoe demo days, the Conclave events, and the construction of the FreeStyle instruction program (the maneuvers themselves had been done for hundreds of years or more). A more in...

Get vinyl tubing from hardware store and cut it into 4 8” sections…split them lengthwise and put them over the gunnels where they sit on the rack….otherwise those rails will be trashed by traveling on metal racks.

Explorer is a legendary do it all hull. Assuming the condition of both is equal I would opt for the Mad River. Had one and it is a very comfortable canoe to paddle….instills confidence. (Plus I just like wood)!