Caledonia

Nice pictures, beautiful canoe.

OK, I recently returned from field testing all 4 of these paddles. I definitely preferred the beavertails and, in particular, the...

This site was originally open to all paddlers. When it became orphaned and I was able to secure ownership with my own funds, my first...

a lovely otter tail paddle made by Douglas Ingram in 1994. Cherry and his classic voyager grip. The shaft was delightfully slim and the...

Yikes! Jim

I've been picking at this project off & on and thought I was about done... I shaped the laminated paddle into an ottertail and carved...

I am getting close to finishing the maple paddle from one of Peter’s blanks and under his tutelage via email. One fantastic tip he gave...

On my latest composite build, I made a seat design change . I have always used straight bars between the front and back rails on my...

A couple summers ago, I found a thread on here by LanceR about how he made a canvas portage pack. I thought that was pretty slick, and...

Check with Boatline Bay Marine accessed from Route 11 south of Temagami

While going to college at Bemidji State, I met Walter Port, he worked in the Pharmacy store (called a drug store back then, it also had...

Note: I wrote the basic draft and then gave it to Chat GPT. I removed some of the really florid stuff and a sentence where Chat GPT says...

this little guy here could turn his head so much ... Great! . . and at some campsites the infrastructure was simply great...

The presence of two loops sticking out from under the hood generates more questions about my car than anything else.

And the result: There’s nothing for the straps to get caught on inside and now I’ll never forget to bring them with me.