NEW Pedal Drive Canoe System for Skin on Frame Canoes

I live with hypermobility Ehlers-Danlos and was born with sever foot deformities that have been a major obstacle to my outdoor activities. The combination of a lightweight boat that I can also use a pedal drive with is truly a blessing. I wish you all the best health and good fortune moving forward.

This is no small amount of development and testing work. Nice job Brian. Highly recommend the courses. Take notes on videos!

You are an amazing human being. Your authenticity and aptitude drip from your pores.

50 years of traditional woodworking (including some kayaks, canons and related traditional boats) 20 years now helping others learn these skills and by far this is one of my favorite channels as I actually get inspired...learn new ways of thinking about things, and how to adapt my own ideas back into making another kayak hybred to spend my retirement years traveling and fishing with. This paddel system has me really interested in perhaps adding that to a design...Thank you so much and love the new content you putting out with your adventures!!!

It's been awesome to see the development of your canoe design over the years.

I really like these light colored ones that you can see thru.

I prefer a kayak. But you made a system, amazing imagination!

Thanks for another great video on your continuing journey for exploring the possibilities of every aspect of SOF canoes. I built two of them 2 years ago and I’m still super proud of them, only thanks to your super plans and course. I’m tempted to build a third one with a drivesystem in it. Keep up the good work! Greetings from Holland.

wow im flabbergasted by your mastercraftmanship... I only have one huge question for a proyect I'm working on... have you tried stand up paddle? PLEASE MAKE SOME TESTS... LONG LIFE TO YOU

This is really great! Thanks for taking skin on frame to the next level

Great work, as always! Looking forward to building a canoe here this winter!

Wow. Thank you.

Hi Brian! I switched over to a Mirage drive a couple of years ago after my shoulder started giving me trouble while expedition kayaking. I had to move over to a Hobie kayak - the Adventure Island Tri - as the drive didn't seem readily adaptable to my existing fleet. The Hobie Adventure Island has been one of the most fun and capable boats I've used. But it meant that I was left with several really great kayaks and small boats that I didn't expect to be able to use again. So I'm thrilled to see that you've taken on this project. I'm looking at adapting my Pygmy Wineglass Wherry to the Mirage drive.

That's awsome!

Glad I got around to watching this as I'd missed the talk of the upwind sailing (potential) possibilities. About the only thing I think was missing was which of the current models are recommended? I was looking a few weeks ago to get an idea of what the Mirage drives cost and got a bit lost in all the models. And as an aside, a number of successful R2AK teams have used the Mirage drive over that past years.

Enjoy your research trip to Mexico. Nice work on this system as usual!

Love to build a canoe, maybe this will be the year.

One option for the older mirage drives is to change to turbo fins. The 72066001 - ST Turbo Fin Kit fits the older V2 mirage drives and greatly increases the power output. So if you're buying second hand drives you will just need to confirm the item is at least a V2 drive.

Just getting into canoe sailing. After seeing the hobie adventure island I was curious if that could be adapted to a sailing canoe. You nailed it. I am curious if you could go with a leeboard mounted to a thwart. Solway Dory has a very cool set up that uses leeboards instead of dagger/center boards. I love how deep in the weeds you go with prototyping and designing. Thank you for sharing.

i only realized earlier this month that my back is more messed up then previously expected. I'm going to be selling my 3 kayaks off and I'll most likely be interested in this canoe fully modded out. I'm actually kind of excited about it having a bigger / upwind sailing design as I've been following the stuff the texas 200 gets up to doing since all the small sailboats get hauled thru my city to get to the launch point. if i built this, it has to be more in the spring as i have a busy winter ahead of me. I'd be making the wider longer canoe as i want to fish around in laguna madre with my 72 lbs dog. it's all a real big maybe for me at this moment. except i am serious about getting rid of my kayaks as they are too painful for me to use.