[Dan Miller]

Run (don’t walk) to whereever you have to go to latch onto a copy of Bill Mason’s film “Waterwalker” (http://www.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/?id=15095&v=h&lg=en&exp=$%7bwaterwalker%7d)

Cheers,
Dan

[Dan Miller]

Yep, that would be Caleb – good thing you made him learn a couple things before letting him swamp it. He’d been ready to go straight for that since the year before’s lesson…

[Dan Miller]

I’ve got a glass Wildfire, good canoe. But, I’ve not used it for tripping, so my comments wouldn’t help Bob… Now, if he’d asked about its qualities as a canoe in which to play Dead Fish Polo, I could recommend it without reserve. 😀

I also haven’t paddled the Wildfire in years, since I got my Minetta.

Cheers,
Dan

[Dan Miller]

I love my Azland saddle seat. Well enough that I offer it as a standard option on my canvas canoes…

Cheers,
Dan

[Dan Miller]

I’ve rescued a number of canoes over the years, but this one is perhaps my most exciting find…

More photos, for the curious, can be seen here:
http://sailingcanoes.dragonflycanoe.com/sailing_canoe/index.html

Cheers,
Dan

[Dan Miller]

Not to start yet another “discussion” but there are, of course, a number of paddlers who feel single blade is the way it should be; for tradition I suppose.

FWIW, the very roots of the American Canoe Association are firmly embedded in the double-paddle canoe… the d-p is every bit as “traditional” as the single-bladed paddle in “modern recreational canoeing”.

Was up in Thousand Island Park a few weeks ago (during Antique Boat Show in Clayton), and visited and antique shop with a few of my canoeing buddies. In the window was an odd stick with a handle on each end, about which the proprietor couldn’t tell us anything. What is was, was a pair of canoe handles on mating ferrules, which you could take apart and set into half of your double paddle, turning each half into a single paddle. Pretty clever, those folks back then 😉

Cheers,
Dan

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