Recent content by Glenn MacGrady

Mason, just to clarify, are you saying that if you stake and pitch before zipping the doors, it may be too tight to zip, but that this won't happen if you zip around the widest widest part of the door and leave the rest open. That would make sense to me, but I guess I just figured why not zip...

1. Missouri River speed attempt 2. 81-year-old Will Steger on 800 mile solo expedition 3. 90-year-old Dale Sanders attacks second half of AT 4. Circumnavigation of Iceland 5. Ireland circumnavigation speed attempt 6. North America circumnavigation 7. Canada by Canoe → tracking site...

"So, 10 years after its release, we loaded Esquif’s second best-selling tandem canoe into a boxcar for a five-day end-of-season whitewater trip down the Spanish River in northern Ontario." https://paddlingmag.com/boats/canoes/esquif-prospecteur-16/ There is also an introductory section on the...

I was cleaning and re-packing my tent today, and began wondering whether I should do so with the doors zipped open or closed. I got inconsistent advice from articles, humans and AI. Some emphasized closing zippers to protect the teeth, some said opening the zippers would make it easier to...

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I use a comfykayak.com kneeling pad, the "standard" rectangular model for $30.95, in multiple canoes. It's also useful as a sitting pad outside the canoe for lunch breaks and even as a doormat for my tent. It has grippy rubber underneath and fabric on top...

The coupon code for the discount is RRMD26. RailRiders makes my favorite canoe and outdoor pants, the Bushwacker Weatherpants.

Eric Schooley of Florida made Lutra paddles under his business name, Ibis Paddles. Kona, I don't know if your pictured paddle is a Lutra or some other model that Schooley may have made under the Ibis name, but I'll summarize some of the history of the Lutra. The Lutra paddle is a large-bladed...

Admin interruption: This is a very popular and informative thread about strip building a canoe, and is still ongoing, but the title ("Alan's Bloodvein II") is very ambiguous for search engine word "grab-ability". So, I added the words "canoe" and "strip build" to the title to improve the SEO...

The 2026 Assembly schedule of activities can be found at this link: https://www.woodencanoe.org/schedule

MREnthusiast, welcome to the site. Since your post is offering a canoe for sale, I think it better fits in our Classifieds forum, so I'm moving it there. That's an excellent price for a Royalex Explorer in good condition, though you really should show a picture of the bottom too. A Royalex...

Our power bank (AKA battery pack) threads are five to six years old. Technology changes fast. The topic is currently available power banks to charge electronic devices such as phones, laptops/tablets, satellite communicators, and other electronic devices you take on canoe or camping trips. NOT...

I'm now considering these relatively new NRS Stealth Gloves. They have a 3/4 finger design instead of the more usual 1/2 finger design, which may be sufficient abrasion protection for my fingers while giving me no doubts about fingertip touchscreen compatibility...

In response to a DM I received, my understanding is that a mockumentary (a blend of "mock" and "documentary") is a fictitious satire or parody deliberately presented in documentary style. I haven't seen this film, but I assume it mocks the sport of interpretive freestyle paddling in costumes to...

Samuel Dunning, the writer and director of "Canoe Dig It", contacted me with a request to publicize his mockumentary film on this site in order to reach our large community of canoeists. I'm happy to do so. IMDB, which currently reports an astounding 9.4 rating for the film, describes its...