Nick Pending

Back in the day, 1970s and earlier, racing, and likely flatwater sprint racing at that, pretty much dictated kayak paddle feather...

Only if it's an otherwise symmetrical boat?

It's a pretty and relatively benign run. A couple easy rapids, one was a bit rocky at low water on our first trip. The river channel...

I've done the Big Salmon a couple of times, though it's been many years. I think our last run on it was 1997. We were all paddling...

The only asymmetrical solo canoe I've ever seen was in the early 1970s when I was still in the Chicago area, and I was working at a...

Glenn, the red canoe in the picture Steve sent doesn't look like a Molitor to me. Those shiny gunnels look like aluminum to me, but...

I've slipped and fallen a few times while on shore, and one of those I tore up the back of my hand pretty good, required an emergency...

This is somewhat fortuitous timing as I'm having some slow private conversations right now with a few members, and more with nonmembers...

Thanks, Alan. I knew that denatured alcohol was the fuel, but that appelation covers a fairly wide variety of concentrations, cut up...

I've never had or used or been on a trip with an alcohol stove, or at least not that I remember. I would expect that they would not be...

Sorry, got sidetracked by the phone and missed the bottom paragraph of that post of yours, came back and responded ill-informed. You're...

It's not been an issue for me in the boats I have, but none of them are Swifts, and out here much of the worry is up and down in...

Not bad, but I bet you can knock another 10 pounds off that without too much problem. Might have to lighten up woodwork to make that...

Final weight, please? And weight of original boat (maybe listed further upthread?) Thanks

Man, these eastern paddlers will do and put up with anything to stick with their wooden boats! My go-to canoe is only 18-1/2 feet long...