Alan Gage

Kudos to you for successfully coaching fellow paddlers riverstrider. I've only coached strangers successfully a few times when the...

Time to start putting some of this beast together permanently. Some of the joints are not suitable to be glued, but they do need to be...

I never had a problem popping my kayak skirts one handed but these were sea kayaks. On my plastic kayaks they would often pop by...

We presented the Opinel to him. When we arrived in camp he quickly started whittling. It wasn't long before I hear "Grampy, do we have...

This is a raft, but it illustrates how dangerous high water on a river can be, how powerful a reversing souse hole can be to trap any...

I've spent ten days per year for 43 years at the same remote fishing hole and I've had three black bear encounters and one grizzly...

I've had good luck wet sanding varnished shafts with something like 1000 grit sandpaper. This makes for a "soft" feeling shaft that has...

I sense a smudge fire coming on.

Glad you said so Alan. Having read @dogbrain and @UCanoe_2's posts above, I confess to not comprehending the reason at first. Your...

I'd read this advice in books and followed it blindly for my first couple builds. On my third build I started questioning why and it...

I'm not a canoe builder, but for other traditional boats the rule is: forms forward of amidships go on the aft side of the station line...

Glad you guys enjoyed following along & I'm sorry to have rushed through the loop. Mosquitoes & Blackflies normally don't care for me...

I would not call Wenonahs old school, just a different design philosophy. To me old school means the Blackhawks and discontinued Wenonah...

Like Keeled Over mentioned I'm always a little uncomfortable hiking and camping in grizzly territory even though I know a bad encounter...