Recent content by Glenn MacGrady

James, welcome to site membership! Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Many of the site's technical features are explained in Features: Help and How-To Running...

Clyde, I'm not one of the builders but do want to welcome you to non-lurking site membership! Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Also, because canoeing is a...

I agree completely—and personally waste a lot more than that every week—but I'm asking for $45 for three years of no fund drives, which is only $15 per year. I'll accept whatever people want to give, more or less than $45, but 80 donations averaging $45 is the minimum I estimate to run the site...

Day 12 donations received. Thank you to: @Halpc @Conk Target number of donations: 80 Total donations received to date: 49 Registered members: 3,713

The article says: "While canoes and kayaks are not required to be registered in Idaho, an Aquatic Invasive Species sticker is required; this requirement also applies to any watercraft visiting from out of state. The only watercraft exempt from this requirement are inflatable paddlecraft under 10...

It's not that bad. The town launches require permits only between Memorial Day and Labor Day, and are rarely policed. Moreover, the state has free boat launch sites on many of the same lakes and rivers where the towns have their proprietary launches. In addition, there are still a bunch of DIY...

I will explain in a later post why I structure fund drive targets in terms of a number of donations rather than a number of dollars. Today, I'll give a bit of history as to the number of donations in previous fund drives. Prior to my taking over the site in August of 2021, previous...

Day 11 donations received. Thank you to: @Tumpline Target number of donations: 80 Total donations received to date: 47 Registered members: 3,713

Other than this year when the notice bar is featuring the currently ongoing Fund Raiser, I always feature November 11 as Veterans/Remembrance Day. When I was a boy, the day was called Armistice Day to celebrate the end of World War I, and still is called that in many countries. In 1954 the...

The article linked below was published on April 30, 2025, so it has some probability of being accurate. First, some of the money quotes from it: "In Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky...

Day 10 donations received. Thank you to: @Caledonia (check) @Will Derness (check) @Gamma1214 (cash) Anonymous (cash) @Thestripper @Moonswept Blackwater Target number of donations: 80 Total donations received to date: 46 Registered members: 3,712

Alan has handled the vast majority of membership screenings since he became a moderator. Part of our tightened-up screening procedures last spring was to require the personal, manual approval of Alan or me after all the automated screenings. Our automated procedures that precede the manual...

Here is a 2017 thread I posted with pictures of some of Phil Greene's canoes, paddles and furniture. I spoke to him on the phone about making me a paddle and he sent me a stunning DVD of much more of his work...

Day 9 donations received. Thank you to: @GeoBoy (check) @Neophyte (check) R.N. (PayPal, no screen name) Target number of donations: 80 Total donations received to date: 40 → HALF WAY!!! Registered members: 3,711

Day 8 donations received: 0 Target number of donations: 80 Total donations received to date: 37 Registered members: 3,712