Recent content by Glenn MacGrady

To stay with our taxonomic pedantry, Spanish cedar (Cedrela odorata) is not a true cedar either. It is in the mahogany (Meliaceae) family. Spanish cedar is the favorite wood for the interior lining of cigar humidors.

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Over many years, I've come to dislike cane seats muchly, though they are traditional on wood/canvas canoes. As they age, they sag when wet, which means you end up sitting on the uncomfortable seat frame, and ultimately they always tear. I much prefer polypropylene or polyester web seats or the...

A tangent, but Steve Despain, the founder and owner of Firebox Stove, a product many of us canoe trippers own, has loads of videos where his two dogs and two goats portage most of his equipment. No sure whether that group would attract or repel a pack of wolves, but it likely would deter a...

Since no one asked what Canoewood tree I was talking about, I'll keep talking to no one. I have a Tulip Tree (Liriodendron tulipifera), which can grow as tall as 192 ft (58.5 m) and thereby ties the Eastern White Pine as the tallest tree in the eastern U.S. It is the tallest hardwood...

A pedantically accurate correction, Nick, and entirely within the subject matter and tone of the topic. Thanks. Nevertheless, I will still maintain that it is unlikely that any "cedar" canoes have been made from the non-native true cedars that some private parties may have planted in the U.S...

Maybe. Or maybe it's diet. Tree experts report that conifers have never been seen eating, for example, Costco chicken.

This is thread is about pedantic, nitpicking, picayune—but accurate—vocabulary. The arborists and forestry experts can correct me, and the WCHA may fire me, but my understanding is that there are no true cedar trees in North or South America or Europe. The trees informally called eastern...

Is this true? If fully or partially true, why do conifers live so much longer and grow so much bigger than (single stem) longleaf non-conifers? I suppose I could ask AI. But we have foresters, botanists and other biologists here, and for ancient trees I'd rather ask ancient humans.

Impressive! What are they? Coastal redwood, giant sequoia, Douglas-fir, Sitka spruce?

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True canoe words. Wise choice to buy the Independence now. It's been a popular flatwater and mild whitewater canoe for decades. It will take you a while to get used to its handling characteristics, and a lot longer to perfect single-sided solo correction stroke technique if that is new to you...

Congrats on your new hole plug, Erik. The Explorer in both the 16' and 17' Royalex versions is a versatile tripping canoe. I thought that when I retired. 19 years ago: 2007. I no longer paddle anything in the 2007 fleet. That was five canoes ago. Knees, heart, lungs, muscles, and cervical...

@memaquay perhaps can be moved to explain how the big loads he takes on moose hunting trips don't result in big canoe dumps. Here's one of his past photographs toting a toilet:

Are you in the club? Racing and surfing an O6 outrigger always seemed like it would be a blast.