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Recently several people have mentioned lowering their toe blocks, by adding something on the front side of an existing setup. Not to cast too discouraging a remark about this type of toe setup... ( nor it's effectiveness :wink: good or bad ) ... but I'd be a bit cautionary, when extending anything d...

(Chime in everybody...) John Well ... After years of using single straps, and double straps.... of devising hi-lo set-ups... of hook and loop Velcro... of inserting stiffeners to make webbing stand up... of all types of buckles and quick releases.... of pulled free d-rings.... and forming foam cupp...

Well - perhaps -maybe without the pump(s)....





.....there'd be more room.

↑ ↑ ↑ - like he said One question though, did you counter sink the holes for the screw heads? Sometime's strange :wink: things just happens when working with wood. If you're really worried and it's just 3 or 4, you might back'em out rub in some wax. Although I usually urethane my gunwales, believin...

.... i've only had them break when they are rotten. -johno came up with the brilliant idea of taking out the end thwarts, his point: they are doing anything anyway. I think he's right.... paul Yep - done that too... I'll never duck tape around wooden thwarts again. Did that one trying to cut down o...

While paddling a canoe I prefer to keep my feet... Poll runs till Sun Sep 28, 2014 10:22 am on the footpegs. under the footpegs. You may select 1 option Both.... And also at times completely move my toe blocks out of the way (back), And other times slip my toes off to the side, And I'll also paddle...

I'd error on too beefy, rather than the other way. More than once I have had normal (old-school) size thwarts fail, and it is not a good feeling. For me they complete my roll cage, and ensure adequate time to exit in a worst case side pin. Two have snapped/failed in a vertical pin.... and the though...

Craig Smerda wrote:While paddling a canoe I prefer to keep my feet...

... in the boat

that sure looked like what eddie mcgnarlz is all about man. i watched it in FF and with the sound off, so maybe I missed it, but where is the class V section? is that what it's rated with twice that flow? and since you asked for feedback, it might be easier to hold on to your t-grip if your not wea...

May your boat run fast,

Smurfwarrior wrote:Here's my strap setup in the L'Edge. Totally solid

Did someone say - strap-on?

where's local?

That was my thought also... (what Craig just said)

I'd get er done...

Like those Blind Boys of Alabama - believe I've followed a few of them before.