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This makes me feel like a movie star, you can see me paddle out of the frame in the first few seconds of the video! :ROFLMAO::LOL::ROFLMAO:

I am HUGE fan of the WildFIRE - and would never debate the need to buy one! 😁 I do want to paddle the Cirrus, because why not! Plus it's a Swift and a Yost design, both of which I love. :sneaky:

I think I didn't word my original post well - what I was trying to ask is whether boats like the Cirrus and YS solo would be equally as maneuverable as a WildFIRE when heeled - does the heel remove the straight-tracking enough to make the heeled Cirrus equal in maneuverability to a WildFIRE?

Curiosity question - everyone knows the advantage of having a boat with a fair amount of uniform rocker for maneuvering in narrow creeks. But heeling should hypothetically lift the stems out of the water a bit - so the question is whether boats designed with a slight amount of differential...

It was great meeting you Glenn! I wish I could have paddled with you guys - but a night of camping was great fun nonetheless!

P.S. Great Grapes is an awesome name! 😂🤣😂

I cannot wait to see where the new tough layup falls on the weight spectrum. Despite my challenges in the Yukon this summer I've been slowly but surely falling in love with my RockSTAR - but switching it out for an IXP-like SRT is going to be mighty tempting. MIGHTY tempting. That being said - I...

I have been kicking myself endlessly over the past two months about not trying to backferry or even spin around and ferry away from that log pile - not sure I would have had time from the point I realized what I was facing, but in the panic of the moment I didn't attempt reversing or ferrying...

I was just reading through some old posts - I cannot tell you how prescient this was. I ended up on a log pile this summer on the Big Salmon. There was a sharp meander that had cut through and I didn't notice until too late that the water was flowing straight under the log pile rather than...

I am not sure just how many times in Algonquin I made plans for specific lakes only to have those plans blow up due to weather or equipment failure; even if you do make plans and reservations, they do not always work out as intended... :sneaky:

Mulling a change in the fleet - and am curious for those that have experience with Bell, Colden, and Swift canoes - how would you compare the ability to withstand a rock strike between the builds? I have a WG Bell but really want to jump on a Colden that is just a total beauty - but I am afraid...

What makes a cookie non-vegetarian?!?!?

Unrelated but connected to the conversation - is it really almost a mile carry between 7th and 8th lakes? Maybe it's just that (at least when I've done it) you're going through the campground, but it seems so much shorter a portage!

Your kiddos could start a new freestyle category - synchronized freestyle!

Tie-dyed Merlin?!?!?!?!?!?

I sure wish I could go - I'd bring my Merlin and unique kneeling FlashFIRE (or maybe the new Redfeather RockSTAR), but the reschedule messed me up - my son's birthday is the 30th...

I've been jonesing to traverse Algonquin from left to right on the Petawawa River - but this weekend after flipping on the Greenbrier in WV, I think I have a LONG way to go before I am ready such a trip! But it sure would be a nice feather in one's cap to run the Petawawa the full way across the...

I think the question would be where to house the retracted skeg - I suppose it could fit into the float tanks, but otherwise it would obviously protrude into the usable space within the boat. Still, I could see where this would be a nice addition, especially to a fast and straight-paddling boat...

I am about to get a soloized Cascade - do you love yours? I am sure they can be a challenge on a windy lake, but my hope is that it will be my go-to for river tripping (particularly on waters like the Missinaibi)...

I like the idea of carefully limiting use of potentially dangerous objects - totally something to keep in mind if I do bring an axe. Thank you!