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Jack's getting a good deal on shipping, as I see I adjusted our flat shipping rate down in order to make our sea sock cheaper and forgot to take the paddle into account. It usually costs us around $25 to ship a paddle within the U.S., but it seems like it depends on who's working at the UPS...

Thanks! The closest I've come so far to getting either one of our paddles is having the paddle sitting in the corner of my living room before I ship it out to a customer. I'm ordering up an Inuit paddle for myself tomorrow, though, to go with my Greenland style kayak prototype. I finally...

-- Thanks Jack! I forwarded the order to my partner so he can get busy on it. Would you like us to send it to Chuck for some pretty artwork? Chuck, the artwork is outstanding. Is that all freehand?

Thanks for the email! I'm composing a Pulitzer Prize worthy response which you should get tomorrow or Monday. On the inventiveness, necessity is the mother of invention, as they say. My internet username is NoBucks on most forums that I post on because I usually have no bucks, so I have to...

I know another company that makes superb paddles. They'll even custom fit 'em to you for no extra charge. :wink: The diamond shaped hole is an interesting concept. I suppose that even if water goes through the blade, you'll get thrust, the same as if you use a narrow blade. You need...

Interesting! We were approached through a 3rd party by the owner of Ancientwood, Ltd, to build a wood strip kayak on spec using his kauri wood from New Zealand. We didn't do it, but I always thought it would have made an intersting piece to hang from the rafters of some rich guy's house...

Since the Black Dog Kayak seats don't have a backrest, last night I took some neoprene and scraps of cordura, along with some poly webbing and two 20" bungee cords and sewed up what you see below. I still want to put a webbing adjuster on it to make it adjustable, but for now, the webbing is...

I'll give 'em a call tomorrow night. They turn in kind of early. I know what you mean about waves near the shore. You end up getting all kinds of reflecting waves and you end up paddling in a washing machine.

New clip from Kayak4AKure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_qoraYNI-k They're in Mississippi now. Looks like the barges are throwing up the predicted wake and John and Louis are having fun riding it out. Also, the kayak took a couple of hits on the bottom and they had to put on a...

More pics posted. The new ones are from the waterproof disposable camera that we brought with us. I also broke the picture page into several different pages to make it load more quickly.

Thanks, bearridge. You may want to contact them through their website and let them know. They're looking forward to meeting various people along the way. I added some video to YouTube of Louis talking about the nature of the river so far and how the kayaks handled on the tight, shallow...

Here's a link to some pics from our three days with K4AK. Most of the river pics that I took are on a waterproof 35mm camera, so I'll be posting more after those are developed. http://www.blackdogkayaks.com/ms-river.html

As I've posted before, Black Dog Kayaks is supplying tandem/triple kayaks to two guys who are kayaking the length of the Mississippi River to raise money for children's cancer research. My business partner, Mark, and I went with the River Team, Louis and John, for the first two days of the...

Watch the Big and Doofy catalogs, you might see more of him. He was the best we could afford, and he works cheap. :shock:

I finally made it out on the water the other day, on Silver Lake, near Republic, Michigan, so I was able to give a few pieces of gear a shakedown run before we go with Kayak 4 A Kure down the Mississippi next Sunday. Below is a shot of the dry top:

You can find Aquaseal at dive shops and probably at your local kayaking shop. It sticks to everything, is flexible after it cures, and is very strong. The spots I'm talking about sealing are only 1/8" to 1/4" wide. I'm planning on putting some on my finger and then smooshing it into the...

The ice has finally officially left Marquette. We had ice in the water and on the beach until just last week, but now we can actually beach launch. Of course, it's still too cold to swim in, so I'll be wearing my 7mm farmer John underneath the drytop. I did a bathtub test last night on the...

-- Nice work! Like someone else said, that almost falls in the category of "too pretty to use!" Thanks for sharing your work with us!

As usual, I don't have $150 - $200 to shell out for kayaking stuff, so I decided that I could make my own dry top. My wife did the sewing, although I modified the pattern and did the seam tape. Not counting labor, the top came in at $40 in materials. It is probably more accurate to say that...

-- Thanks for the comments guys! I'll pass them along to Eric. This morning he also sent pics of it on the water, as you can see: