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Ready for my first outing of the year!

I'm not familiar with Swift canoes but my best advice would be to accurately assess how you treat your boats, how you trip, your level...

Me too. Hammocks seemed vastly superior when I first started using them but that was mostly because my ground setup wasn't very good. I...

I too used a boat trailer and built a box on it to make it multi purpose. The canoe rests on bars, short for one canoe and longer for...

I've never experienced motion sickness from it but I know what you're talking about. There are been times when I still feel like I'm...

I used an old boat trailer for mine. Laid some 2x6 stringers for a flat platform and screwed a piece of plywood down for a top...

Getting my wood canvas canoes up on my trucks roof racks is still doable but getting harder each spring so I found this on Face Book...

I used to so a fair amount of canoeing but got deep into work and raising kids and......Now that I'm deep into retirement and not living...

Well it's not as bad as I thought it might be. The skid plates have been shaved down so that they're very thin. Don't know for sure...

When I say "restoration", that's what I mean. :D

Sometimes, I think, the marketing folks can target a specific paddler to excess and thereby alienate others, causing the early demise of...

I don't think I've ever done a restoration, nor am I likely to. What I have done plenty of times is put a canoe back in service. Putting...

He's not available to show it until later today. ;) It's been a while since I've done a restoration. From where I sit, this one looks...

Okay, it needs a little work, but for $175? Why are you still here!

I'm unfamiliar with that model. I looked it up and it seems like an odd boat. It's built specifically for kneeling but has apparently no...