The Starlight is light- a 35 lb raw hull, and stiff- just as you have...
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Myths about MITH
This one is going to be a rant. Something I have needed to get off my chest for a while now: MITH is not the new PAT or MAT!!!!!! Okay, that feels better.
There has been some (much?) confusion over what MITH is and is not, and what happened to PAT, so I would like to clarify things for instructors and students alike.
MITH is a method to get a canoe to carve a turn. Period. It can be done in lakes, ponds, eddies, river current, anywhere at all, but it is ...
Starlight- The Evolution of a Classic
You already know the boat. Bluehole Canoes designed it and made it famous, Evergreen Canoes continued the tradition, and now Echo Paddles is taking it to the next level. The Starlight is the latest offering from Echo- the classic Starburst whitewater tripping canoe in the same composite lay up as the Echoee. Just like the Echoee, we have taken a great boat design and made it even better!
Road Test
The first Echoee prototype has been popped out of the mould. With gunwales and outfitting it is a wonderfully svelt 30 pounds! I have had it out for a couple test runs to see what it can handle and how it feels.
I have put it through some proper testing, over ledges, into holes, bumping down some rocky class 4’s, and finding lots of rocks in eddies. So far it has performed and held up wonderfully. A few dings and dents, to be sure, but nothing like the...
The Death of Royalex; The Evolution of Paddling
The open boating community has been holding its collective breath this winter, waiting to see what will replace Royalex as the next wonder material for canoe hulls. The exhale became a huge sigh of despair when Esquif announced the other day that they are, sadly, shutting down production of some of the world’s best open canoe designs. Devastating news, for sure.
What does this mean for us? What’s next for the world of paddling? Do we need to go back to...
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