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not that all of us soloists are opinionated.. mff....:rolleyes: We were looking at a Blackhawk Canoe that has been at Lincoln Canoe and Kayak in Freeport ME for at least a year. Its 1994 mint and is either 12 or 13 feet long. Cane seat some rocker.. FreeStyle shape bottom. Its a beautiful solo for a small paddler. Its had the $1000 price tag on it for a long time. I bet they would dicker. Kevlar. Has a label Canoe Country on it. I think that might be Dave Curtis retail end? We talked to...

Here is a rare video I just stumbled upon: Mike Galt and Marilu Wilson performing their national championship freestyle exhibition routine in 1991 in Huntsville, Texas. They are paddling one of Galt's Lotus Egrets, which has massive flare but not much rocker, unlike the highly turnable later tandem canoes from Tom Mackenzie's Loon Works (the wood-Ceconite Duet) and the Bell/Placid/Colden Starfire. Mike told me he originally designed the Egret as a "bird watching canoe." Sadly, all of these...

This 1981 Canoe Magazine essay by Mike Galt is a poetic paean to solo canoeing, replete with many classic Galt-isms: "Solo. Alone. But never lonely." "The solo canoe: a light, slender form in utter symphony with wind and wave." "An activity where men and women are equal. On the solo path, skill and knowledge supersede simple strength or mere gender." "Solo paddling is a free-form performing art." "There are those who think the solo canoe, at its best, represents the ultimate hull form."...