I want to protect my blades from getting damaged, so I'm thinking of either taping with electric tape or use one of the sup edge guard.

The main question is, if I use the edge guard on my OC paddle blade, would it affect my performance? I compete in half mile races so if anyone has used one of those edge guard on OC paddle blade, or have different suggestion, please give me an advice :P thank you

A report on Tahitian V1’s

Help ! Advice needed.
The gel-coat of my Fenn XT has aged strangely : It looks like it has been cutt with a very sharp blade (can be seen on the pics). In some other places, it looks like "orange skin" (does not show well on pics).
If I'm not mistaken gel-coat is polyester resin.
The surfski is made of carbon, so that means epoxy resin.
What would you do to fix it ?

Shopping for first OC-1 for my wife. She is 5'4", and weights 95-100lbs. Looking for general Brand recommendations for OC-1 to fit her small size. All around canoe, paddling flat water/small down wind. Aloha!

Hi everyone,
I have a new Hurricane and am thinking about replacing the rudder with a weedless rudder from Huki. Paddle So. Cal waters and get a lot of kelp. He sells a 4" or an 8". Everyone talks about rudder drag so I was thinking the 4" rudder might be a nice California rudder. I will not be surfing, but open ocean runs with cross swells seem to happen a lot. I am doing the winter race series. I paddle SUP a lot and am use to steering with the paddle blade, but of course I do not want to do this all the time. What do you think.

Cheers, Jill

I thought I wanted a one-man canoe and have spent hours researching this forum. But right now I am totally spooked by how fragile they are! I want something comfortable and lightweight, but it's the way they're constructed to make them weigh less that seems to make them so delicate. I'm also worried about buying used as opposed to new. I'd like to not spend a lot to start out, but older equipment could have problems sooner.

I have been looking at pics of the Pegasus online and am wondering what the compartment is that's in front of the footwell. The compartment under the tiedowns. Is this storage? I'm finally going to paddle one of these next week which will be my first OC-1 experience. Psyched to see how my SUP time translates on the OC.

Can anyone share thier ideas, pics for modifying thier OC1 seats to help relievce some numbness. I've seen some cut outs in some seats and want to see what works and is it worth cutting. I'm riding a Pueo.

OC chines.

I would like some ffed back and thoughts on OC's with chines. Do they work , do paddlers notices the differences. An what current OC's have them?

I bought a used fiberglass oc1 with a lot patch repairs that are cosmetically bad. I want to sand it down and check the integrity of the repairs and paint or re-gel coat the whole boat. I've been reading that there are marine paints that are just as durable as gel coat. I will be using an air gun.

If there are good paints that I can shoot in the back yard, can anyone recommend the brand.

If I need to use gel coat, I'm lost. Can I shoot gel coat from an air gun (portable 10 gal compressor)? What are problems I can expect. I've just read it's a PITA.