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Thanks Robin. Jim

I wonder if he has any spruce rails. I need two pairs of inwales. Jim

Use it! I have a seat I did an emergency repair with tubular nylon webbing more than twenty years ago. It’s a little faded now but otherwise fine. The cane had torn and I needed the boat in the water working in the afternoon, I had the webbing so I wrapped it up and went to work. Even this past...

Beautiful boat. Jim

Interesting setup with the dagger board. The advantage with a pivoting board is it it starts to get shallow it will just get pushed up out of the way. Even you you have found the best location a pivoting board can fine tune the lateral resistance to best location for that point of sail. How did...

A sail rig with a jib, nice. Just an observation, you might want to move those stays aft of the mast a bit. They are fine side to side but they do nothing to keep the mast falling forward. What is the mast step and how secure is it? You are in for some fun. Jim

Thanks for that report. You hit a lot of your goals. Jim

Hate to admit it but it’s coming for all of us eventually. Keep doing what you can and keep your spirits up. Jim

Trying to distract from the fires ravaging my favorite canoe country I was thinking about a couple of other posts dealing with weighted anchors and rudders, and got me thinking about sea anchors and drogues. Any boat going in the ocean should have them and I had a sea anchor on my 32’ boat. A...

I saved this goal post Thule rack from the dumpster, it was in the free pile heading to the dumpster in a couple of days. I’ve never used one and I am not certain everything is here. The bars are 54” and 58” long. Everything is in real good shape. The man owned a Tacoma pickup. I’m not...

Beautiful photos, you went at a good time. Jim

Thanks for sharing the film, I’ve only watched a bit so far I’ll finish it this evening. Jim

Maine had a hazy red sunset last night and a hazy red sunrise till about ten this morning. Doesn’t look bad now but I expect another red sunset. Jim

It’s been almost 10 years since you started this post. Did you ever upgrade your reflector oven? I do admire your kit and should make a buck saw. Jim

Plus one on the whispering to the skunk before it is released from a hav-a-hart trap. Also cover the trap with an old towel. That worked for me when I caught one by accident. Jim

I read that the other day too and thought it very unusual. Jim

Here is another one Benson. I went on a group paddle today, it was fun but we were the only ones in canoes, there was one strip built Bidarka and the other twenty boats were paddle boards or sit upon kayak abominations. We all had pizza after the paddle and I saw this when we were leaving. Good...

I saw a car with the canoe cross wise on the car, but that was only because they forgot to tie it down. Jim

My kayak had a rudder but it was a kayak. The only time a rudder is rally needed on a canoe is when you are sailing. That said I’ve sailed without a rudder by using trim or a paddle to act as a rudder if the water is too shallow. Jim

That’s a nice set. Jim