Recent content by Glenn MacGrady

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...

Jay, not sure where you are, but I have a very little used Nova Craft Bob Special in Aramid Lite layup (about 40 pounds) I bought for my daughter near Jacksonville, Florida. She's never used it.

Yes, that's another reason I'm thinking of gloves. Thanks, Steve, but I don't want padded gloves. To focus the usage and desired features better: I'm after full-fingered, unpadded, thin gloves that will drain and dry easily, that will offer sun protection for the back of my hands, that will...

There were 15 solo canoeists functionally freestyling in the New Jersey Pinelands last week. I'd say everyone was in a "sport canoe" — 14 of them composite and one Royalex. From the top of the picture to the bottom, the canoes are: Northstar Firebird Swift Prospector 13 Swift Wildfire...

Tom, do they work with phone touchscreens reliably? I use my phone a lot to take photos. I should have specified this feature in my OP. The newer OR Ironsite II LT glove claims touchscreen compatibility.

Fingers are what get the abuse.

Thanks, but you're right. I wouldn't want anything grippy because a significant percent of my strokes involve palm rolls. I'd prefer a material more slippy than grippy.

In fall of 2011, I was communicating extensively with a "re-emerged" Patrick Moore and proofreading a history of sport canoeing that he was writing. That history was never published to my knowledge because Pat soon submerged again—who knows where or why. Most of us now assume he has passed. In...

I'm interested in suggestions for some sort of thin and fast-drying paddling gloves for skin protection for warm weather paddling—NOT waterproof or insulated gloves for cold weather/water paddling. I've been paddling a lot in the New Jersey Pinelands, which has unusual challenges. The rivers...