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I've installed lashing points on a drybag using pieces of an old dry bag and gluing it on with Hypalon adhesive (or maybe vinyl adhesive).

I have a Clipper WW3 (18'6", 73#) with aluminum gunwales on which I through-bolted my central carrying yoke (prob 10-32), through the hollow channel. I did this shortly after I purchased it in 1994 or so. I've portaged it miles and miles with no ill effect. During installation, I did collapse...

Are you talking about just the seat cushion? Thermarest still makes them https://www.thermarest.com/products/seats/lite-seat/lite-seat.html. You can get knockoffs for half that from Amazon. Also LL Bean LL Bean cushion

The yeah, but what about the boat?

Or change CDs around traffic, especially cyclists. That killed a 5yo kid near where I lived, and it notably changed my behavior.

Those are the newer tan gunwales, along with the cane instead of rotomolded seats. The white gunwales were from the 1970s I believe. I think the gunwales have aluminum inserts as well, but not sure. Year of manufacture will be the last two digits of the serial number--may be a 2000 or later model

I didn't include breakfast and lunch. I can eat the same thing for six weeks at a time. Grape nuts/dried milk/sugar for breakfast, mixed nuts and granola bars for lunch. I average 1.5 pounds of food per day and don't go hungry, but I'm a pretty light eater.

My staples for 6 week trips (involving lots of portages) are: instant brown rice, Bear Valley soup mix (e.g. broccoli/cheddar), and bacon bits; pasta w/Knorr pesto, sundried tomatoes, and bacon bits; Zatarains Jambalaya, dried tomatoes and andouille sausage. The bagged real bacon from Costco is...

30 years ago I helped a MS student study low productivity in red-tailed hawks. The culprit was blood parasites transmitted by black flies. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236145648_Blackfly-Induced_Mortality_of_Nestling_Red-Tailed_Hawks

Fun stuff! Dunno about all those rolls without helmets, though (or PFDs).

And then there's https://www.canoetripping.net/threads/winter-reading-list.128809/

They have an impressive video out on the trip on Youtube

I think you'll find it responds well to leans. With a hard lean, the stern will really slew around. I used to dick around with a hard lean and an outside low brace--I've come close to gunnel dipping! Although the depth can be problematic, the gunnels are the right height to get a solid brace...

Yes, 3 years ago. Even got to pole a makoro--wonderful experience. My daughter trying her hand (as a couple of hippos watched from a distance--and her father!).

My first thought was "that looks like makoros in the Okavango" , then saw the ID. Wonderful place!