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Reply #10 - Aug 26th, 2015 at 12:06am
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Yellowbird wrote on Aug 25th, 2015 at 9:09pm:
Hopefully you'll get a chance to play the odds and catch some great weather next time.


Feels like that's been my luck the last few years. In 2011 my wife and I did a Sept. trip and the weather was probably the best I'll ever have on any canoe trip in my life. That was her first trip, so we were lucky.

Every Sept. trip since then the weather has gone from bad to worse. I'm planning a solo in mid-Sept., and hoping that at least I don't have to fight as much wind as last year. We pulled through a lot of winds that I don't think I'll be able to contend with solo. Here's to playing my odds.  Tongue
  
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Reply #11 - Aug 26th, 2015 at 1:17am
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Ranger wrote on Aug 26th, 2015 at 12:06am:
Yellowbird wrote on Aug 25th, 2015 at 9:09pm:
Hopefully you'll get a chance to play the odds and catch some great weather next time.


Feels like that's been my luck the last few years. In 2011 my wife and I did a Sept. trip and the weather was probably the best I'll ever have on any canoe trip in my life. That was her first trip, so we were lucky.

Every Sept. trip since then the weather has gone from bad to worse. I'm planning a solo in mid-Sept., and hoping that at least I don't have to fight as much wind as last year. We pulled through a lot of winds that I don't think I'll be able to contend with solo. Here's to playing my odds.  Tongue


Hum a few bars of 'Against the Wind'...

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Reply #12 - Aug 26th, 2015 at 12:20pm
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Ranger wrote on Aug 26th, 2015 at 12:06am:
Yellowbird wrote on Aug 25th, 2015 at 9:09pm:
Hopefully you'll get a chance to play the odds and catch some great weather next time.




Every Sept. trip since then the weather has gone from bad to worse. I'm planning a solo in mid-Sept., and hoping that at least I don't have to fight as much wind as last year.


That makes 2 of us Ranger. Hopefully our paths will cross somewhere neat the Narrows late on my trip but early on yours. Long term forecast so far (for what it's worth) is highs in the low 60's and lows around 40 without much rain. Will keep checking through our departure on 9/4. Wouldn't mind those temperatures at all as long as the wind cooperates. No matter what, we will be in the Q and it don't get much better than that...

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Reply #13 - Aug 26th, 2015 at 12:41pm
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Was in Quetico August 3rd-8th. Rain two days, cloudy/overcast two days, sunny two days. Agnes Lake, East Lake, Jeff Lake to North Bay, Burke, Bayley...  Grandson's 1st trip, age 9. Typical Quetico weather, but a bit cooler than normal for that time of yr.
Still...beats the alternative!
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DB - she's still smiling in the pic!
  
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Reply #14 - Aug 26th, 2015 at 1:18pm
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We pulled through a lot of winds that I don't think I'll be able to contend with solo.


That's when the Double Paddle shines, IF you can adapt to it. Undecided

IF your interested, send me a PM and I'll point you to where I got my paddle at a reasonable price so if you can't adapt, you just end up with 2 spare paddles. Wink
  
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Reply #15 - Aug 26th, 2015 at 4:37pm
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solotripper wrote on Aug 26th, 2015 at 1:18pm:
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We pulled through a lot of winds that I don't think I'll be able to contend with solo.


That's when the Double Paddle shines, IF you can adapt to it.


As of right now I plan on taking a long wood kayak paddle, with a single blade back-up. I'm going to do some trial runs this weekend to test the paddle and my new anchor system.
  
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Reply #16 - Aug 26th, 2015 at 4:59pm
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Ranger wrote on Aug 26th, 2015 at 4:37pm:
solotripper wrote on Aug 26th, 2015 at 1:18pm:
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We pulled through a lot of winds that I don't think I'll be able to contend with solo.




That's when the Double Paddle shines, IF you can adapt to it.


As of right now I plan on taking a long wood kayak paddle, with a single blade back-up. I'm going to do some trial runs this weekend to test the paddle and my new anchor system.


The key to a double paddle for a canoe is that it's long enough that you don't hit the gunnels every stroke or have to to that high windmill stroke like you see kayak paddlers doing.

Because I'm paddling a tandem solo, I had to get a 9 ft paddle to work properly. If your canoe is a true solo, then you could get by with a shorter paddle.

There are some good videos of guys using double paddles in canoes and they talk about length and strokes you use in a canoe vs kayak.
  
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Reply #17 - Sep 2nd, 2015 at 12:51am
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Great trip report Db. Your daughter's a trooper. Great work getting her in for the experience and out safely!
  
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