Actual quote from this paddle: “We probably should have learned how to paddle the canoe before filming ourselves doing it.” The reality is we’ve done almost all of our canoeing in solos, which limits my tandem experience to Boy Scouts and Liz’s to none. I wish I had an audio recorder running the entire time on this paddle….
Anyway, this is what the latest pedal drive prototype looks like with all the pedal stuff stripped off. Just a simple small canoe good for day trips, or potentially a large solo with a lot of cargo capacity. Personally, I’m not a big fan of compromise boats like this because it’s easy to create a canoe that doesn’t do anything well. (the compromise, being solo and tandem ability not pedal drive and paddle. Going forward I think I’m firmly in the camp that a solo should be a solo and a tandem should be a tandem. It’s nice and light though and a good size for minimalist flatwater exploring. The nice thing about our system though is all you have to do is change a couple numbers and you can make the canoe bigger or smaller. Looking forward to building a bigger one in the spring.
Song is the History of My Heart by Headland.
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