Canoe Painters - Their length and use - part 1

The age old question of how long your canoe painters should be is often quite contentious. Everybody is entitled to their opinion, and it often helps to offer reasons why you have that opinion with evidence and techniques to back them up. Here is my thinking as part of two videos, I hope they are useful. If you have better ideas I’d love to see and hear them as Im always keen to learn.