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This thread made me curious about the history of asymmetric hull designs in small boats. I didn't find an authoritative source but the...

No need for a skeg or rudder on a canoe. Maybe it could be useful if you only paddle lakes for the rest of your life. I built a sea...

I have to challenge the idea that a skeg will automatically add efficiency to a canoe. I call on my sailing dinghy experience for this...

Many of us here own multiple canoes, for a variety of reasons. I'd like to think it is because each canoe does something better than the...

Without momentum you are just using paddle strokes to turn your boat. With momentum you can use your hull to help make a turn...

I'm not an historian, but I agree with Benson on this when it comes to all around general purpose canoes. Specialty boats with swede...

You mention things like optimum prismatic coefficient, Swede form, asymmetrical rocker, Kevlar, carbon fiber and CAD, all things that...

Maybe so, and one might think so, but have you ever seen the physics of the surface of a golf ball?

No way I'd advertise a special secret spot but I might share with a very few select individuals with the caveat of "you can't tell...

I'm about to purchase a buffer and am looking for the best methods for cleaning up last season's water stains on my canoe hulls. Harbor...

I'm a fan of using a tool in the way it was designed to best operate. Even though I have several ultralight canoes, call me old school...

I don't doubt that a skeg will improve control of your boat, but for what I do I'm not a fan. My view is probably narrow minded and...

Just because many of us "east coasters" live south of the border, for the most part we (at least I) do not speak with anything like a...

How about pronouncing the American Voy'-ager (emphasis on "Voy") vs the French Canadian Voya- geur' (emphasis on "geur"). Long boat...

When I paddle long distances on rivers or lakes, most often some kinds of shore landmarks are all along my route, I pick an observable...