Canoeing

 I was at the off the grid cabin on McFarland Lake in northern Minnesota I just purchased with friends. It connects directly to the BWCA so canoeing will be occurring again. As a general rule I prefer kneeling while canoeing, this habit came from my whitewater canoeing years where you can only do offside paddling while kneeling.  But my friend has a Wenonah Kevlar canoe with tractor seats. Impossible to kneel on those. With the very limited reaching of my left arm, seated paddling barely worked. If I was kneeling I could have effectively compensated by leaning forward and getting a decent canoe stroke in.  Eventually I will buy myself a 20 lb. solo carbon fiber canoe, allowing me to canoe and camp in the BWCA by myself. I'll just hoist the canoe on my right shoulder and carry it that way across portages. Friends are concerned about these trips so I may have to get a Spot satellite communication device.