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ok i really need help with tracking…this is a modern touring canoe class boat so why am i having so much trouble keeping it going straight on flatwater,the boat handles like a dream on faster current rivers corners like a mazzeratti but ive noticed on the huron river with lisa in front chillin no paddling i can only give 2-3 good strokes per side 2 mostly and im zigzagin all the way down and there are times like when i gotta get lisa home to cook my meal so i want straight out power no time for jstrokin to keep er straight, now we cruise with her front seat 3″ from all the way back (its a slider) so we could move her forward if’n yall think that would help me???im baffled its acting like a river touring with more rocker would act, any tips….
oba
ps im gonna get a straight paddle cuz i read somewere on here i aint supposed to kneel and use my bent shaft!?!?!
and i tried lisas arrow bb and that was same results so please any adviceI think your on to something, moving bow seat forward. The specs for your canoe show it has 2.5″ of rocker in front and 1″ in the rear. So I’m guessing if you can get more of the front wet you might track better.
I have a Kipawa too, and I find the trim is very important.
moving the bow seat forward and/or shifting packs forward to lower the bow will definately improve tracking. Use which ever paddle works for you, I prefer a straight shaft but most of my partners use bents.OBA,
First you probably paddle harder than Lisa does, so the canoe turns away from the side you paddle on. You will either need to have her paddle harder, or more likely you paddle less hard. From the stern of the canoe you are well back from the point where the canoe rotates on a turn (generally just near the middle of the canoe), and any imabalance in your strokes will make the canoe veer.
My guess is that you’ve got something in your forward stroke that might benefit from a little work…. we all do:D. You can always use a little work on getting that paddle perfectly vertical, and that your stroke doesn’t follow the rail of the canoe, but rather runs erfectly parallel to the keelline of the boat (In the stern that means that the rear portion of the stroke is slightly further away from the stern than at the beginning of the stroke.
Personally, I spent the better part of an hour on Saturday night working on my forward stroke technique over in your neck of the woods on Crooked Lake in the Pinckney Rec Area, just to clean up a few needs. One nearly always benefits from work on the forward stroke. It’s actually one of the most difficult strokes to do efficiently.
PK
OBA,
Crooked Lake is very nice, though small for a whole day of paddling. But there are several bays to paddle into, and chains to a small wetland that feeds the control weir, and into Pickeral Lake, and the small attached lake to the east. Overall, it’s a beautiful place to enjoy the almost current full moon.
Head out in the evening with your lady friend, and paddle around the lake through dusk while the Sand Hill Cranes are setteling in for a night. Then enjoy another lap beneath the full moon. I can’t be responsible for the romance that might occur.
PK
Glad we can help. The kip is a really fine boat, just a little tender. what I find helps is to ask someone how the boat is trimmed for your normal load in the water. Mark the slider with a sharpie to give you a starting point, then adjust according to your load. by the time you get used to trimming it, the sharpie will wear off and no-one’s the wiser.;)
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