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05/11/2018 06:15PM (Thread Older Than 3 Years)
So I picked up a new canoe this year and need to get yoke pads for it before my inaugural Memorial day trip, I have a good condition set of foam squares on the Penobscot that I could transfer but I would like to hear from anyone with first hand experience with the Piragi's toilet seat pads. The problem I have is I am built more like an NFL line backer than a cross country skier and the yoke always seems to hit me in the neck regardless of how far forward the square style or hammock style pads are placed. What's the solution for a guy with a 20" neck?
05/11/2018 09:42PM
I think the OP is referring to the "horse collar" style of portage pad at this link.
"Said one of these men, long past seventy years of age: 'I could carry, paddle, walk and sing with any man I ever saw. I have been twenty-four years a canoe man, and forty-one years in service; no portage was ever too long for me. Fifty songs could I sing. I have saved the lives of ten voyageurs. Have had twelve wives and six running dogs. I spent all my money in pleasure. Were I young again, I should spend my life the same way over. There is no life so happy as a voyageur's life!'"
05/12/2018 04:15AM
Worst yoke pad I ever used. Had them on my second Wenonah Adirondack and it was too confining for me. Others may like them, not I. My recommendation is these Bourquins. Love them. Piragis has some similar ones that are pretty good, but Bourquins are my favorite:
Bourquin yoke pads
Bourquin yoke pads
"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." Mark Twain
05/12/2018 09:27AM
Heard more complaints about the "horseshoe collar" than any other type of portage geaar.
Personally use Superior Pads, very similar to Bourquin. Mine are codura covered adding more grip. Big and adjustable!
butthead
Personally use Superior Pads, very similar to Bourquin. Mine are codura covered adding more grip. Big and adjustable!
butthead
"never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups" George Carlin
05/12/2018 06:58PM
Ok, I gave up on the toilet seat style, I went down to Midwest Mountaineering and tried the hammock style, the curved foam ones, and the rectangle foam superiors they all hit me in the back of the neck. So, I bought a pair of the Superiors, extended the bolts and raised them up 1 1/2", I think I solved my own problem....
05/15/2018 10:54AM
Thought I’d add my 2 cents. And I realize this may be a day late and a dollar short but I actually switched to horseshoe collars because I’m built like you. I found any of the 2 separate pads would either pinch on my trapezius, or would feel like theyd slide off my shoulders since I’d have to widen them to get them off my trapezius.
I like the horseshoe because it puts even pressure across the neck and upper back.
I like the horseshoe because it puts even pressure across the neck and upper back.
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