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I know some people want the hard seat so they have butt movement but my foam seat in my strip boat is the most comfortable kayak seat I have used so far. Making one out of 3" minicell foam is not hard (though it might not be as pretty as the Redfish ones) The build site <oneoceankayaks.com> had...

There are some different schools of thought on boats- some love the Sterlings for sure. Also there are the Brit boats group, for example the NDK boats. If you have the desire to check that out, you can do a paddle with Blue Dog and rent one of theirs. I have a P&H Cetus with the heavy layup that...

I bought mine from <https://pagaiequebec.ca/en> though they had free shipping when I bought it.

It looks like the InReach SE (Yellow one) is disappearing and I wouldn't be surprised if the Explore (Orange one) follows. Those were the original Delorme designed units. The Mini 2 will probably be the low end unit and the expensive InReach+GPS screen units will be higher end.

Kayak Foundry was pretty useable for playing with designs. I don't know how active Ross has been- it hasn't been updated on the web site for some time but I expect it still works. I had it installed using "Wine" on my Mac and it worked pretty well. Not sure if it will run on a modern Windows...

Usually 4 or 5mm. If you have deck fittings make sure the larger size fits for it. Usually larger diameter is better as it is easier to grip. Polyester cord is UV resistant and less stretchy when wet than nylon. Finding nice colours seems harder than it should be unless you just want black...

I am a convert to the system that "Blue Dog Dave" showed me- drawn pencil lines on the charts along the magnetic N-S lines (updated from the compass rose direction), and use the protractor above with a string to read off magnetic headings directly. This made much more sense to me than what we...

If you are doing day trips from the Bunsbys, I would recommend visiting Battle Bay and exploring there- the latest Kimantis book describes some things to look for. I regret not spending more time there on the visit 2 years ago. Also make sure to get in a game of b-ball on Spring:

My understanding of the "why" part is that the tide and current tables are derived from measurements so based historical data that are very specific to the station. Overall the tides (and hence tidal currents) are related to the relative motions of the Earth, Moon and Sun (see tidal theory) so...

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Back in the day (many many days ago) rowing in an eight (and later sculling), we did a lot of work to reduce the stroke rate but increase speed with power on the stroke but slowing the return for recovery. The power came from driving legs and core strength- quite a lot given the bend in the...

Sprayskirts seem particularly difficult to find right now- not sure if Seals is delivering any at the moment. Agree about trying L6. I was at WCK last week and they asked if I needed a skirt when I picked up my kayak there (I didn't) but implies they might have some, or expecting some at least...

That looks pretty mid-channel to me. If they did that in the intertidal zone it would be spectacular tho

I have been out to HG twice (Rose Harbour and SW area). I would recommend calling Moresby Explorers to get a sense of the situation for after July 1 when it reopens. Using them for going in or out (or both) would allow you not to have to paddle the same area twice. Also good to have an option if...

The parks web site <Bowron Lakes Circuit> has kml (Google Earth) files for the campsites and the emergency radio locations on the circuit. If you want them on your GPS you can use a converter to get them into the right format.

Oh data... now we're talking. At 5 knots (about 2.6m/s), if you look at the sampling intervals, they vary between 3 and 10 seconds so the distances vary from 5m to 30m (the "leg length" column). If a standard rule of thumb GPS accuracy is around 3m, you can roughly say each leg length is +/- 3...

Getting the additional decimal or even 0.5 knot in the readings are likely only an illusion of accuracy from consumer-level GPS readings. It is one case where I think Garmin is being reasonable- extracting accurate local speeds from GPS readings has fairly large inherent errors. Not so much of...

I have never seen the CCS seal before- what material do they use? The web page is pretty brief: • Adjustable Closed Comfort System (CCS™) neck seal for quick one-handed watertight closure and venting It looks like a drawcord system around the neck which on the face of it seems possibly...

The price for the oeSENC charts for the West Coast looks pretty good- about the cost of 2 paper charts. Has anyone seen what the Canadian charts from this look like? I could not find any online. One comparison I did find was for Finland and the oeSENC ones did not look good for paddler...

This resource was pointed out to me today- it is a BC Gov't web resource that lists resource road issues for the different management regions. A decent start page is: <local-road-safety-information>. From there you can look at the individual regions listed on the left-hand side. The amount of...