Dana

Not a great photo, but it was an incredible experience to paddle upon a sleeping wolf: Lane Cove, Lake Superior, Isle Royale National Park.

Since getting my MR Explorer, which I mostly paddle solo, I've come to prefer bow high and heeled, Canadian style, sitting in the bow...

Many years ago a friend and co-worker was getting into whitewater kayaking. He carried his kayak around in a Triumph TR-8 with the boat...

Got back to the cabin after doing stuff with my wife, including lunch with a couple of beers... it was nap on the couch on the porch or...

My daughter and I went out with the Hackensack river Canoe and kayak club for the annual Saranac lakes trip and had a great time as...

I use a tent plus a gore-tex bivy sack. The bivy always gets used, the tarp goes up if I'm expecting rain. I think my tarp is 5x9 or...

For me, no tent, but I don't camp in bug season. Tarp, ground cloth, and bivy sack. Sleeping bag according to weather. Thermarest...

The best thing to do with over ripe bananas is make banana bread. However, sometimes the bananas are just too ripe, so they have to be...

It's not actually speed that matters; it's (neglecting the effects of bow rise with speed) the angle between the boat's centerline and...

This is a canoe that needs to find a new home, though that new home may be a funeral pyre... This is a big boat, twenty feet long and...

"It's the right thing to do." But I'm glad it's not me that's doing it... :ROFLMAO:

LaVerendrye, Qc. August 2026

I was in my canoe on the river between Long Lake and Tully Reservoir in Royalston, Massachusetts, yesterday when I stopped among the...

One more "final" tweak: I used the standard 32" contour seats from Ed's when I rebuilt the canoe, but since then I've gotten really...

Today I had company on my paddle.