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Ryan, welcome to site membership! Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Also, because canoeing is a geographic sport, please add your location to the Account Details...

Years ago, I was researching the first Royalex canoe on the market and one source said the Old Town Chipewyan (which may be wrong). The catalog page suggests that "Chipewyan" was more a family name of a group of different size canoes, such as Chestnut's "Prospector" was. Benson, is that correct...

The only situation where you would have to resize an image before posting is if it exceeds 8000 KB (= 8 MB) limit. That shouldn't happen unless you are using a very high resolution setting on your phone or camera—for example, the 50 MB setting on my phone instead of the more practical and...

Explained in the video, the water-land vehicle was built for a trip across Scotland and back, the purpose of which is to raise money for a charity that provides prosthetic limbs for children in developing nations who are born without legs.

Wow, in 28 days! Thank you, André, for such a thorough, detailed, well-written, and nicely photographed trip report.

On many discussion forums, such as sports forums, preserving images is not important because those forums cater mainly to current banter. This forum is different. One of its prime purposes is to preserve our trip reports, our build/restore/repair threads, our gear threads, and many other threads...

I also don't recall precisely whether it was under vBulletin or an earlier release of Xenforo, or both, that copy-pasting an image from the internet only linked it to the source. I don't have controls to enable or disable copy-pasting, but our webhost assures me that we have more than sufficient...

I wonder what purpose Nova Craft had in mind by putting a stem ring on the bow and not the stern. Yeah, you can tie a rope to it, but so what? I tie painters and vehicle bow/stern lines to the grab handles.

Well, I've been experimenting and, as @Dana has pointed out for internet pictures, you don't have to download and upload. You can just right click on an internet image in Firefox or Chrome, choose "Copy Image," and paste directly into the text box to get it on our server—all without using the...

That seems to be correct. Thank you for the clarification, Dana. What I meant to say relates to using the Insert Image tool (mountain icon). If you choose Upload Image option, the image will be uploaded to our server. If you instead choose the By URL option, the image will appear in the message...

You don't need to resize images before posting them. Xenforo will accept images up to 8000 KB. If the image is larger than that, it will be rejected. If the image is accepted, it will automatically be resized to a maximum of 950 x 950 pixels when it is inserted into a message. If the image is...

https://www.collinsvillecanoe.com/shop/INSTOCK-Swift-Canoe--Kayak.htm

The Boreas Ponds have the reputation of having perhaps the most beautiful lake-in-mountain scenery in the Adirondacks. I've seen video. Historically, the ponds were a bit of a hike to get into with no campsite nearby. Last summer, @Conk told me the access, parking and camping situation has been...

Or Old Town throwing a Tripper off their factory roof in 1973 to demonstrate the durability of "Oltonar," which was their name for Royalex. There was a picture of that in Canoe Magazine ads, but I can't find one. Maybe @Benson Gray can.

That's enchanting if you live where "the woods are lovely, dark and deep." But here's the dirty, messy reality of winter for many folks: Extra credit for identifying this canoe vehicle by model and year.

This is an interesting question. Here is what Cliff Jacobson, now 84, says about his 72-year canoe career, about the same as mine. https://paddlingmag.com/stories/columns/butt-end/cliff-jacobson-on-canoeing/ I'd say what what's changed for the better in my lifetime is the improvement in...

Maybe. Then there's the thing in the lower left corner that looks like a paddle blade with a reflection of a rare Quebec rodent-fish. (I have never been a taxonomic biologist.)

Gram weenies, pay attention! Matt Morris of Waterloo, Ontario, has made an 11.6 lb (5.3 kg) canoe that he tows by bicycle for urban paddling in Kitchener. Note also his homemade paddle collection, including a very clever "hand blade" paddle and a wooden feather blade paddle that weighs less...

Just catching up on this Agatha Christie plot twist thread. In the century-old tradition of "The Perils of Pauline", in which each episode ends with a damsel-in-distress cliffhanger, Erica punches out the best cliffhanger closing lines I've ever read in a trip report, including the "wrong...

Gamma, I think you mentioned in another thread that you make wine but not from grapes. Did I get that wrong? Anyway, could you explain what you will do with all that wine, especially if you keep making more. Do intend to use it all, sell it, give it away?