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Since meeting Glenn last year, I have gained a little insight into the MASSIVE amount of work that goes into administering and...

This may be true but we also need to consider the variety of places where these discussions occur. The WCHA forum is similar to this one...

Here is a graph showing the average number of daily "users active" each month from our migration onto Xenforo in August 30, 2021...

This is a feature of vBulletin which has not been replicated under XenForo in the same way. The WoodenBoat forum is still running...

I'm not Glenn and don't have access to the administrative side of this forum but XenForo does provide some limited statistics as shown...

The link below has more details about the serial numbers on a variety of old canoes if anyone wants to chase down that 'rabbit hole.'...

I did not know about the hull number and the HIN being different on Old Town canoes due to the digit allocation. If I had thought about...

This is correct. The HIN format only permits five digits for the serial number so Old Town omits the most significant digit(s). This is...

This canoe has serial number 390212 and was made in September, 1991 for the 1992 model year. That build record has not been scanned...

Old Town had a many woods available so it may have varied. Their wooden canoes in that era had spruce inside rails and mahogany outside...

The first thread I'm aware of on the site is THIS ONE, dated July 31, 2011. So, I consider that date to be the birthday of the site. The...

The canoetripping.net domain name was first registered on July 23rd, 2011. The first website using that domain appeared in a search by...

Many years ago I volunteered to help run my son's Cub Scout Pack. We decided that it would be fun to go canoeing and soon found that...

Guessing when a lake will have open water is notoriously difficult. The chart below shows some ice out dates for Cold Stream Pond in...

There were a broad variety of Chestnut Prospectors so the answer varies. The most obvious element is that they tended to be deeper than...