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You gotta be kidding. Does this: "(b) A person who manufactures or imports a boat for his or her own use and not for sale must obtain the required hull identification number..." really mean that I need a HIN for a homemade boat that only I use? How many of you DIY canoe builders comply with...

Nova Craft has a removable portage yoke that uses basic hardware parts. $27 CDN for the hardware kit, $150 US with the thwart added. The kit looks like ordinary hardware store items. I already have a salvaged Old Town center thwart. I picked up hinges, etc. at the local hardware store but...

Daphne Palmer Geanocopoulos, The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd. Hanover Square Press, 2024. Before reading this book, it never occurred to me that pirates were married. Sarah was the daughter of a sea captain, and William Kidd was her third husband. She was one of...

THE PURIST by Ogden Nash I give you now Professor Twist, A conscientious scientist, Trustees exclaimed, "He never bungles!" And sent him off to distant jungles. Camped on a tropic riverside, One day he missed his loving bride. She had, the guide informed him later, Been eaten by an...

"So there I was, a med student on the general surgery service. It’s 6 AM and we’re rounding as a group: students, residents, fellows, and the attending. The other student is presenting. "We had learned that it was very important to the surgeons to know whether the patients had started passing...

Remarkable! That cake deserves a post in the Canoe Art thread.

My post #4 above is the sanitized version. Here is an example of other skills Scouting taught me: When I was in 11th grade, my buddies and I were old enough to have driver's licenses. One Memorial Day weekend our troop had a 3 day camping trip. I rode to camp with my friends, John and Chris...

Lacking covered storage, we have canoes on outdoor racks. The birds find them ideal nesting sites. We used rubber snakes for a while, but after a couple years the birds figured out they were not real and therefore not a threat. We have plenty of real snakes, but for some reason they do not...

"Cats, as a class, have never got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in Ancient Egypt they were worshiped as gods." --P.G. Wodehouse

Thanks, Ewetah. Utah is a bit far from Virginia, so I am still looking. Good luck with your sale.

Only once, and for less than a mile. 😢 But it was on tidal water, San Domingo Creek at Saint Michaels, MD during the Mid Atlantic Small Craft Festival. Photo is my wife at the same spot several years ago. I sold two canoes to raise $$ as part of the long term plan to acquire a lightweight...

Our driveway is 600 feet long, and the entrance is mostly obscured by trees. Our neighbors are trustworthy and we live in a low crime area. We do not lock the doors when we are at home, but do when we are gone overnight. This exercise is really mostly futile, because there are several...

"A total of 39 whitewater helmets have been rated using the STAR evaluation system. Our impact tests evaluate a helmet's ability to reduce linear and rotational acceleration of the head from a range of whitewater and paddle sport head impacts." These folks are excellent engineers, but they...

The suspect is in custody. https://www.mynbc5.com/article/new-york-anthony-bechand-captured-homicide/68075144

Today at long last I installed the little forward deck, which is a major structural component. Dispensing PL Premium with a manual caulking gun is not kind to my arthritic hands. So I applied the adhesive with a pneumatic caulking gun. IIRC it cost $75 from Home Depot a couple years ago. I...

Still looking.

Backpackers use Excel spreadsheets to develop a gear checklist and calculate weights. We can easily adapt the spreadsheets for canoe use. Here is one example https://www.poweredbytofu.com/backpacking-gear-list-spreadsheet/ I made my own, which seems to have disappeared when I tried to back up...

Your canoe really looks sharp! Now you have to paint your truck to match.....

Mast Partner Mark I was cut from an ash board made from a tree on our property that was killed by the Emerald Ash Borer. The tree was crooked and had a lot of bound up stresses. When I cut a hole for the mast, the board twisted badly. The 2 thwart pieces were made from the same tree, but did...

Remember those model airplane kit instructions that said, "Paint all parts before assembly?" At last, a primer coat on the boat interior..... I also primed the undersides of the breasthook, deck, mast partner, and miscellaneous small parts. After two finish coats of paint, they will be ready...