MrPoling

What a great puzzle. That looks like the grinder plate from a meat grinder with a stainless bolt threaded through. Could also be a...

Hey Bartcanoed. Wwlcome to the site. There is paddling here, much of it mentioned above. Lumber River, Merchants Millpond, Bear...

I've been lurking and reading posts here for a while. Seems like there is a great bunch of people here with a lot of great information...

My experience with headlamps is you spoil your night vision when you raise your hands at the beginning of the stroke. If I needed to...

Hey Blackrock. Those are cool canoes. The problem with Clippers is they use heavy layups. After a good round of patches it will only...

Yes, this is one of those trips. Had a whiner expressed interest we would have gone somewhere easy.

I returned to Falls Lake this evening, hoping to enjoy the sunset. Despite some much needed rain, the lake is still way down. A heron...

Riverman by Ben McGrath. It is about Dick Conant. He was a character who traveled thousands of miles on several trips. He also was...

The drought might be making the beaver shifty down here (southeast). My Falls Lake day trip report includes lots of tail-slapping...

This is so sad. We had a similar incident here several years ago, where an unaware family tubed over a low head dam, and most of them...

I paddle a fiberglass Explorer. It is fine. I suspect the v helps stabilize the boat from rolling, but I don't know. I know the v...

Details matter with fuel economy. The canoe alone is fine, hard to notice without keeping a detailed log. If i load enough, like a...

Yes, summer is tough in the low country. We were camping at Congaree NP the first day of October and it was too hot to sleep.

I think UCanoe_2 has a good point. If you have a good storage setup it isn't too bad to remove a kevlar canoe and put it away. It is...

We've gone from flood to drought here in the Carolinas. Over the 4th of July weekend I went to see the north western end of Falls Lake...