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Looking for some advice on the Cascade. I've got a handful of runs on out local class II and I'm starting to get a feel for it. It is an entirely different experience than paddling the Spanish Fly.

The foam came unglued from the pedestal and I have it prepped to glue back in. The boat feels like it is trimmed a little far back and i was thinking of moving the back-pad forward about 3/4". Does the Cascade tend to trim out further back than I might think b/c of the hull design? It looks to me like the stern has a thinner profile and less volume than the bow.

Another question has to do with how the Cascade responds to draw strokes. I feel like have to plant the blade behind my hip to get the boat to sideslip. A function of the boat design or a result of poor technique?

I am 6 feet tall and weigh about 200 lbs. The 3" foam backrest is located 1 inch from the cockpit rim on my Cascade and I feel it is trimmed pretty well. However, trim is a personal preference so I would place the saddle where the boat handles the way you want it to handle.

I have never paid attention to where I place my paddle to do a draw on this boat. I assume you are doing a pure draw. To keep the bow and stern moving equally in a sideslip the paddle has to be in the boat's eqllibruim point. As you mentioned, you feel your boat is stern heavy, as a result the bow may side slip with less resistance than the stern. This would cause the need to place the paddle further back to keep the bow and the stern side slipping equally.

Brent