I’ve always enjoyed chasing little waterways that most people don’t even notice. A 17 pound pack canoe makes ridiculous adventures like this creek entering the Columbia River worthwhile....
Category: Boat Testing
Video: Ghosting along at 2 mph on a mostly windless day
Ghosting along at 2 mph on a mostly windless day.......
Various sailing bits and bobbles
Various sailing bits and bobbles for my adventures with more canvas than is advisable in such a tiny canoe....
Testing canoes in the Columbia Gorge
Out in the Columbia Gorge to test the new canoe design in all sorts of wind and wave conditions. Unfortunately today’s conditions are good for little more than glamour shots!...
Video: Light winds, sailing the newest canoe
I rescued this little red sprit sail from the dump ten years ago and finally got around to making a quick and dirty set of spars for it yesterday. A fun toy for very light winds and exciting in a gust! ___ This post was originally featured on our Instagram feed. See the original...
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Video: St. Johns sail test with the latest pair of canoes
St. John’s sail test with the latest pair of canoes. Just finished filming a tutorial on building interchangeable canoe/kayak sails - look for that and a new canoe design video update soon....
So much in the production queue right now
So much in the production queue right now: just posted two more updates on the canoes to YouTube this week, including the sail test, with three more videos in the works including a walkthrough of this Greenland boat and a guide to kayak camping. And prepping for canoe build round 2....
Wrapping up sail testing on the canoes
Wrapping up sail testing on the canoes - trying four different size sails that can easily be changed out on the water. Sail report and some on the water footage will be on the YouTube channel this week!...
Evening sail test on the Willamette
Evening sail test on the Willamette, with the canoes solo and catamaraned together. Lots more to test, full report coming soon!...
On YouTube: Full trip report on our John Day River test
Full trip report on our John Day River test paddle up on the YouTube channel now. I talk in more depth about the catamaran and removable thwart systems, shaping and performance in wind and waves and rapids. Still very pleased with their performance and got a lot of good info for the next iteration....
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End of the trip
End of the trip. People always see the and assume we must have to be really gentle with these boats, but Liz plugged a class 3 hole with this one and and when I got back to the boat it was wrapped around a boulder, facing upstream. Literally curled around the rock, and not...
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On YouTube: On the water footage with the nesting canoes
Just posted a video of on the water footage of the nesting canoes to the YouTube channel. We spent a large portion of the trip with the canoes catamaraned together – an experimental feature that performed beyond expectations, and wound up being fairly critical on this trip to avoid swamping on the class 2...
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Back from a 70-mile wilderness test paddle
Back from a 70-mile wilderness test paddle with lots to report. Video update on the canoes' performance coming later this week, after I've had a chance to edit footage and give the boats a careful inspection....
First canoe on the water
On the water. Lots of adjustments to make to dial this design in, but ultimately this first round of boats is a success. Working on another video on this portion of the build, and then we’ll take the larger two on a river trip to put them through their paces before starting the build...
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The New L.P.B.: Now Even Pointier!
As is evident in my original text, below, I was trepiditious at first about releasing the LPB. My fear was that everyone would want one, when in fact most people would be much happier with an F1. 90% of paddlers travel at less than 4.5 mph most of the time, for these people the...
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