Recent content by canoeao

Thank you! That's really helpful.

I'm gearing up to restore my old-ish Lincoln Hidden Pond, and I've encountered something I haven't seen on other canoes before (I have very limited experience working on canoes, so maybe I'm just naive). I don't know what these metal bits that are inserted into the gunwale are, which seems...

I started on drums and I tried stringed instruments but they never stuck. Alas, I can’t exactly bring a drum set with me while I’m tripping. In the past year or so I’ve picked up the harmonica though, and it’s been very nice to fiddle around with thanks to its small size and easy learning curve...

Any avid knot-tiers out there? I’m a burgeoning one myself, hoping to expand my knowledge. So, I’m curious - what are your go-to knots when you’re canoe tripping? What do you use them for, when/where/why, etc.? Any special considerations or anecdotes? I just got my snap bowline down with my...

Pretty self-explanatory title. I don't truly intend to do all that much whitewater for now, but I am curious about your experiences running WW in a fiberglass canoe, especially shorter canoes/solo canoeing a fiberglass canoe in WW. I imagine there's a lot of patching or that folks usually opt...

Also 177 miles… crazy! Definitely not intending to try anything quite like that soon. I’ll give some larger lakes and calmer oceanic areas some more time. Thanks for the advice!

Northeast Creek is beautiful (when it’s not choked)! Pretty cool estuarine environment there. Sometimes you’ll spook the fish that breed in the mud.

I've been lurking the past few weeks and thought it was about time I introduced myself. I've gotten into canoeing in the past year or so and recently bought my first canoe, a 13-foot Lincoln Hidden Pond. I've mostly paddled on and around MDI, but this past weekend I took it out on its first...