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This has to be my favorite canoe launch of all time

June 2024July 2024Leave a comment

This has to be my favorite canoe launch of the year. @dustflour built a pack canoe and a solo canoe, and then walked them down to the beach in San Diego for a surf session. This makes me smile because it used to be my own first launch protocol for many years. Well done...

Luke’s West Greenland kayak

May 2024July 2024Leave a comment

Just wanted to share this lovely West Greenland kayak build from @_easternhorizon_ Luke built our 5% scale up version of this boat and then decided he wanted a little more volume so we drew up a custom 7% scale up for him. Lots of great photos of this and the previous build on his...

On YouTube: Thoughts on the Pedal Drive Canoe System after months of testing in Mexico

May 2024July 2024Leave a comment

Just posted a new video on the Cape Falcon Kayak YouTube channel where we do a a detailed review of how the pedal drive canoe performed and held up to 4 1/2 months of rough use in Mexico. There’s tons of great information here for anyone that’s interested in pedal drive watercraft and/or skin...

Video: Here’s why I like side floats in a canoe

May 2024July 2024Leave a comment

Here’s why I like side floats in a canoe. I’m just washing the canoe here to get the fish blood out, but this works just as well if you’re floating next to the canoe in the water. In just a couple seconds, you can dump 95% of the water out of the boat. ___...

On YouTube: Skin on frame outrigger self-rescue

March 2024July 2024Leave a comment

Here’s the skin on frame outrigger self rescue video that we just put up on YouTube. (Watch to the end for bonus footage of our campsite getting attacked by cows!) ___This post was originally featured on our Instagram feed.See the original post and discussion here. Follow Cape Falcon Kayak on Instagram »...

Video: Catch & Cook – Fish Tacos

January 2024July 2024Leave a comment

Advertencia: los peces sufrieron daños durante la realización de este vídeo. Feliz año nuevo a todos y gracias a México por mis experiencias por aquí. Disfruta el video. . . . ___ This post was originally featured on our Instagram feed. See the original post and discussion here. Follow Cape Falcon Kayak on Instagram...

Video: Catching triggerfish in the pedal canoe

December 2023July 2024Leave a comment

I love catching triggerfish because they are beautiful, abundant, delicious, low in toxins (mercury), and punch hard above their weight in a fight. A 3 pound trigger fish fights harder than a 7 pound steelhead. They are also incredibly durable, with literally the toughest skin of any animal I’ve ever butchered, and bony gill...

Video: Using the new pedal drive canoe with the outrigger

December 2023July 2024Leave a comment

After using the new pedal drive canoe with the outrigger for a few weeks, I’m already planning for the next iteration. As I’ve said multiple times already, I am never going to build another hybrid solo/tandem. The boat just sits too high in the water, and catches too much wind in solo mode. Also,...

One of the privileges of my job is all of the amazing boat builders I get to meet

November 2023July 2024Leave a comment

One of the privileges of my job is all of the amazing boat builders I get to meet. After seeing my recent video on the new pedal drive canoe, I got this email from Richard in Australia, who designed this pedal drive outrigger sailing canoe, and even went so far as to put it...

Video: Final boat test before we leave for Mexico

November 2023July 2024Leave a comment

Final boat test before we leave for Mexico. Here I am testing some foam saddles that I made to level out the outrigger and yet another pair of rudder blades. I’m still not 100% satisfied with the steering situation, part of which is the boat and the other part is the rudder blade. The...

Joe’s finished skin-on-frame rowing shell

November 2023July 2024Leave a comment

A while while back I posted about Joe, a high school senior who decided to build a skin on frame rowing shell for his senior project. He had previously built one of my skin on frame canoes when he was 16 so I agreed to mentor him through this project. Joe designed the rowing...

On YouTube: Adding a Falcon Sail to a Cape Falcon Kayak

November 2023July 2024Leave a comment

Last video project before we head to Mexico. We are filming full instructions for how to add Falcon Sails to our kayaks. It’s a bit of a project with over an hour of video, but details matter with this sort of thing. I’ll the put the YouTube videos at the bottom of this post....

Video: Steaming in experimental reinforcement ribs

November 2023July 2024Leave a comment

Here I’m steaming a couple of experimental reinforcement ribs into the pedal drive canoe to strengthen the framework around the adapter box. No idea if this will become a permanent modification or not but here is the process I used: I started with some very dry bending oak. Normally we prefer it to be...

Video: First test of the new pedal drive canoe in outrigger mode

November 2023July 2024Leave a comment

First test of the new Pedal Drive Canoe in outrigger mode! Here I’m using our canoe catamaran system to attach an inflatable ama. I can definitely feel the drag of the ama but it’s not terrible, it seems to take away about .1 to .2 mph of speed, and the effect on steering is...

A lovely student-built rowing canoe

November 2023July 2024Leave a comment

Check out this lovely rowing canoe built by one of our students to use on the St. Croix river in Minnesota. This is a perfect example of the versatility of our building system. He started out building a 32” wide x 15’6” long solo canoe, then rounded out the bottom a little more for...