-
Happy Nature Photography Day! 📷🦌🦅🐟🌄
Boatman53's latest activity
-
It will be 50 years in September since I took my first trip. It was on the Susquehanna with a few high school friends. I found these... -
Boatman53 reacted to Pseudonym's post in the thread A Quick Tour of My (Compact) Kitchen Kit - Show Yours with
Like.
I'm in awe of Glenn's "go-light" arrangement. But since we're indulging the other end of the spectrum... here's our Machias River... -
Boatman53 reacted to Tryin''s post in the thread A Quick Tour of My (Compact) Kitchen Kit - Show Yours with
Haha.
My humble solo setup. -
At my age there is no delay appropriate when it comes to buying a new toy.
-
Boatman53 reacted to Glenn MacGrady's post in the thread A Quick Tour of My (Compact) Kitchen Kit - Show Yours with Like.
This was on a weekend canoe trip in New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the summer of 2025. I used a new and compact kitchen kit I bought...
-
Boatman53 reacted to Gamma1214's post in the thread An extra trippy Merlin canoe strip build with Like.
Nope, I'd see (at least part of) the paddle every stroke. Extra trippy colors are for the (WTH?) benefit of others and (possibly) to...
-
Boatman53 reacted to Glenn MacGrady's post in the thread An extra trippy Merlin canoe strip build with Like.
The "M5" (Magical Mystery Merlin Multicolor Masterpiece) made via Gamma rays and a horse rasp. It needs a distinctive paddle to match...
-
Boatman53 reacted to lowangle al's post in the thread Photos of Animals, Fish, Birds & Bugs on a Canoe Trip with Like.
This is a blinded sphinx moth (I had to look it up) that showed up on my canoe cover the other day. They have a 4" wingspan and are...
-
Me in 1985, practicing 300 consecutive rolls in North Pond, Maine, in prep for my first river run in a C1 . . . on the Rapid River in...
-
Boatman53 reacted to Gamma1214's post in the thread An extra trippy Merlin canoe strip build with Like.
Photo documentation may be lacking but I got 'er done. Now to wrap this up... I clamped the seat to the porch railing outside and...
-
Boatman53 reacted to Gamma1214's post in the thread Photos of Animals, Fish, Birds & Bugs on a Canoe Trip with Like.
I think I camped in the turtle nesting area at WPASCR. I nearly tripped over these girls Saturday morning (they weren't very happy but...
-
I replaced the seats on my Wenonah Advantage and Wenonah Rendezvous, making the original seats available. If anybody wants to repurpose...
-
Boatman53 reacted to Gamma1214's post in the thread Show us pictures of your canoe vehicle with boat(s) with Like.
Surely similar but... Mine will never grace the halls of any museum and (some did notice) none of the psychedelic colors on mine are...
-
Boatman53 reacted to Gamma1214's post in the thread Show us pictures of your canoe vehicle with boat(s) with Like.
-
Boatman53 reacted to Sliding Focus's post in the thread Show us pictures of your canoe vehicle with boat(s) with Like.
Thanks in part to the encouragement (or enabling?) of several of our other members, I brought a 1978 Wenonah Jensen C-1 home from WPASCR...