Recent content by Glenn MacGrady

The site was started sometime in July 2011 by Willis, now deceased. We still have several active members, like @scoutergriz, who came on board in 2011. The earliest posts on the site of which I am aware are in this thread: https://www.canoetripping.net/threads/good-luck.54/#post-54

Gail, if I understand you, here are a few tips: - If you don't want to post a message you have typed in the reply message box, just delete everything in the box so it's empty. - You don't need to hit the "Reply" link in another person's post to reply to it. That will insert the other person's...

No, not really. I don't use ferro rods. BIC does the trick for me. I do recall practicing a few strikes with a ferro rod on the 162 just to play around, but I guess it wasn't enough to leave any stains or damage the spine.

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I spoke to the new owner, Chad Swander, in August and he told me they had no symmetrical grips and wasn't planning on having any. He said all the palm grips are asymmetrical and so is the dragon paddle T-grip. Maybe he's changed his mind, added a new grip, or was just wrong about the dragon...

Hating to cook at home and certainly in the bush, and usually appreciating the opportunity to force-unfeed myself to lose a few pounds, all my meals on canoe trips were Spartan. Just the lowest carb freeze dried meals I could find plus a bunch of "protein" bars for lunch and snacks. Some of...

Thanks for bringing us along on that adorable first family canoe trip.

That's just astonishing, Nick. Good Sherlock Holmes work—beyond elementary—and a lot of, well, good fortune. Thanks for sharing this story with all that detail and those lovely photos. I'm sure some folks will have questions. I've never been in a birchbark canoe. The pictures make it look as...

Ahh. I misinterpreted the photo. I thought the paddle was flat on the table surface with the clothespins side protruding over the edge. I now can see the entire blade has been elevated off the table surface. Marc, you have referred to your different paddle models in several posts, and in one...

Very interesting. I've never heard of this, and if I've ever been thusly torqued, I guess I've never noticed. You say this only happens in your very light weight and presumably low/no rocker canoes. Shouldn't this reactive torque be more pronounced the more turnable the canoe is, due to high...

I don't care for that pinkish arrow down the blade. What is that? A wood facing coming down the shaft into the blade? What kind of wood? If it's not a different wood than the greenish sumac, what is it? To me, it looks artificial and incongruous with the natural masculinity of the wood grain and...

If I understand correctly, river and shallow water paddles get one coat of epoxy over the blade fiberglass, whereas freestyle paddles get several? Is this for aesthetics on the freestyle paddles? Does that mean a freestyle paddle would weigh a bit more than an identical size river paddle because...

To protect the throat of a softwood shaft (cedar) against gunwale abrasions and denting, Mitchell would extend the blade fiberglass right up to the throat, upon customer request.

In this video, Dustin James demonstrates the Katanaboys 500, 650 and 1000 cutting various logs. There is also a non-cutting demonstration of a Bigboy 360 (the straight not the more effective curved blade model) the and Pocketboy 170. Dustin's main interest seems to be in building wood shelters...

Aslowhand, what is that tripod structure on the point of land?