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Try kneeling with your bum resting against the seat. You'll find it feels allot more stable. If paddling solo sit in the bow and face the stern, you'll be closer to center and on a wider part of the canoe. Try Alan's advice so you can experience the secondary stability (when the canoe is leaning...

Serge, welcome to CT site. While you wait to source wood for new gunnels it wouldn't hurt to try to take some of the kinks out of the old ones. Put a short block of wood, maybe a foot long, on the inside of the bend and use a C-clamp acrossed to pull the bend in some to straighten it out. If it...

I'm not feeling good about it myself. If you bolted through the hollow part it would collapse some when you tighten the bolt. I feel the material is too thin to hold a rivet with any up pressure (I think it would eventually pull through). Good luck and welcome to CT.

How about creating a locked "Quarantine section" to display troll posts. By the time I get here they are usually gone and I feel left out of the conversation. I feel like I've missed some good ones. Dave

Glenn, I'll still think of you as our Supreme Leader. Thanks for all you do and have done. While I'm at it, thanks again Robin for doing your stint to keep us together. Last but not least, thanks Mem for being you, somebody had to do it.

Cool Alan, what color is your new cape? You will be wearing a cape paddling from henceforth won't you?

Dragged instead of carried on portages?

As I read these posts I started to wonder if "suffering" is a state of mind. i.e. one person's suffering might be another's discomfort, and yet another's inconvenience. Not trying to minimise someone's suffering. Just saying it may be relative to past experiences. Also, the length of the "trial"...

A memory that sticks in my mind is from an early October solo trip in the BWCA. I got up in the middle of the night to relieve my bladder, and while up I walked down to the lake. The lake was still like glass and all the stars were perfectly reflected in it. Looking out across the lake it was...

My menu probably wouldn't work for most. When tripping I look at food as fuel and I keep it very simple. I don't enjoy cooking or the clean up afterwards, so for supper I cook a one pot meal and eat it out of the pot. Knorr sides with dehydrated ground beef or chicken. Breakfast is coffee and...

Nothing fancy here. Depending on the weather I set up this hex fly. I have a diamond fly for mild weather that takes two less guy ropes. For a few years I carried along a 10 x 12 silnylon tarp that never has been out of the bag.

Glenn, I mostly sit. I'll kneel when fighting a head wind or trying to pick up the pace.

Glenn, Looking forward to watching an awesome game tomorrow night! Too bad the two teams didn't meet in the final.

Welcome Brian, from a small town near Cedar Rapids Iowa.

I have had both a Camper and Penobscot 17' to haul the family around in. The camper felt much more stable of the two due to it's flat bottom. It would be great to test ride them for your self. That said, I would definitely recommend the Camper for a first family canoe. Dave

2 solo, 3 tandem. Haven't needed the spare yet. Been carrying a multi tool in my day pack for 13 years and haven't used it yet. By now if I needed it I probably wouldn't remember that I had it. Dave

Machinist 25 years, electric motor technician 25 years. Now retired. My FB profile lists my education as having graduated from the School Of Hard Knocks. Lately I have realised that I haven't graduated yet. Dave

I have to agree with Goonstroke on watching wind direction. winds out of the east usually spell trouble for me. NW is normal where I'm at.

I'm a tent roller and a hammock and fly stuffer.

I don't have much but here goes. Red sky morning, sailors take warning. Looking forward to some more wisdom being shared.