Recent content by Glenn MacGrady

Chesapeake Light Craft sells two varieties of foam pads for crossbars, one variety specifically for aero bars. Here's the page from their website: https://clcboats.com/products/aero-roof-rack-pads

That's quite deep. Just curious, where do you see that spec, Brian?

Deal/Hemlock SRT power! Thanks for taking the time to write up your report and posting it here, @gadabyte.

WNW, thanks for taking the time to document your first canoe build on our site. I'm not a builder, but I've looked closely at the specs, price, pictures, and videos of this canoe and have some comments. There probably are zero mentions of a complete CLC strip kit here. The retail price of...

"The best viewing conditions in a decade for the Perseid meteor shower — under a new moon? And a total solar eclipse at the same time? It’s all happening on August 12." "You can expect to see an average of up to 100 meteors per hour during the Perseids' peak." "The Perseids can be seen from...

What I don't understand, because I've never researched the subject, is what happened to the original purposes for which the 2,300 removed dams were originally built. They weren't built as hobbies. I assume they were built for important (or seemingly important) purposes such as hydropower...

It depends. "When engineers pull the plug on a dam, the lake behind it does not just quietly fade away. A reservoir is an artificial, still-water (lentic) system, and removing the barrier that holds it back triggers a rapid shift back into a flowing (lotic) river. Of course the water drains...

This is a Yakima Skyline "landing pad", four of which you screw into the roof of vehicles that have factory-drilled screw holes for roof racks. The towers with crossbars can quickly attach and detach from the landing pads. You can see the screw in the middle of this landing pad going into the...

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Geez Louise, folks. Could we follow the topic—which, to repeat, is: "what do you use for an innie if you do use one." Thank you for your attention.

This is NOT a topic to debate the virtues of innies vs. outies. I'm just asking about what do you use for an innie if you do use one. I've used an innie (and an outie) for many years with my 3-person backpacking tents that I've used for canoe camping. It is a nice lightweight fabric innie from...

At my age and health situation, virtually all of my canoe camping is now multi-day base camping out of my car. I have a three-person REI tent that I like a lot just for myself, but it gets cramped with gear and literally must be crawled in and out of on hands and knees. That was okay when I was...

Actually, what I said and meant that there is abundant open canoe life other than paddling in whitewater or from one's knees. However, I have nothing personally against kayaking; it's just that this forum's focus is on canoeing. I was mostly a sea kayaker from 1996 to 2004. For one reason, sea...

I was diagnosed with a torn meniscus in my knee—or some fragments that had torn away—in 2017. It was apparently just from old age degeneration and not from any particular trauma. It caused some instability and pain in my knee. I don't recall whether I was canoeing much that year; I may not have...

I don't use any pads on my aero bars. But if you do want some protection for your gunwales, you can put the protection on your gunwales rather than on your crossbars. Just snap short (6") sections of foam pipe insulation or hard plastic pipe insulation over the points on your gunwales where...