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Thanks, Benson. It was obviously not Old Town. They were just the only name I could come up with who made boats like that at that time...

I seem to remember a kayak design I think back in the '70s that utilized a chopped off stern like that, and my faulty memory calls it...

I thought I'd posted this here already, but can't find hide nor hair of it, so here it is, the ultimate in roller portages. Please...

A quick look at the site linked above doesn't seem to cover any of the materials in use like most paddlers require them, which are...

I'll add my own "Happy Canoe Year" to everyone, also.

i have a couple kayaks that I likely now own. Not sure of status though. They were given to me years ago (40+?) by a couple friends to...

If you want to keep weight down, your described glued-in side pegs would be the lightest. If you want some versatility, though with a...

I wouldn't necessarily agree with this, though I was alway pretty much a packhorse on trips. I first started paddling 75-lb. Grummans...

Thanks, Al. The poles I started out with were I think 10-foot wooden poles with a steel pointy shoe on one end, sold by Old Town that I...

Days on the water for me are likely over so this is all a virtual lesson for me now. If I'm standing with a paddle, I don't have to drop...

I've done the same with a bent shaft (knowing how angles work), but my paddle is only 48 inches long, a bit of a reach for such a short...

I used my carbon/Kevlar bent shaft and left the otter and beaver tails on the poor mustalids and castorids. (That's a joke!)

I tried poling back in the mid 1970s, but didn't like it because we did a lot of deep-water paddling and a pole didn't seem of much use...

Recurve stems require either a two-piece mold or split end mold so they can get the finished hull out of said mold. That recurve blocks...

I don't know about other Ontario canoeing parks, but Quetico at least for a while had a maximum group size of nine people. Again, I...