Recent content by Chip

I once took a trip through ice. I should have canceled. There was thin ice over the cove where I launched and I easily pushed through the first quarter mile of it. Then I encountered thicker ice, but got out on the marsh and pulled the boat along. Then the marsh ended, and at that point, I...

It looks like dowel locator inserts will provide very exact results. But haven't we all replaced seats without such precision? Crude but effective method: clamp the seat to the gunwales in the position you want it. If the gunwales are new, drill the gunwale and seat frame at the same time. If...

I have held onto my candle lanterns but no longer use them. I used then with citronella candles and would burn them in the tent for a while before closing up the tent for the night. I think it helped with bugs. However, the citronella candles didn't perform well in the lantern. They melted too...

I have a simple daily goal: escape sedentary. The escape vehicles are hiking, biking, and paddling. Of course, life gets in the way and I don't succeed every day. But this year I'm doing okay with 190 escapes so far. Eighty escapes by paddling (585 miles). You can do the arithmetic and figure...

Rivets need a rivet tool. What about an appropriate size nut and bolt? You might have to grind the bolt head to get it to fit inside the snap center/ hollow.

Sad to hear. He was a nice guy that I got to meet a few times in the old p-net days. He took great photos. Thanks for the post KK.

Sounds like an interesting day. Thanks for posting. As I age, I find doing anything I’m not used to hurts. I can regularly do day trips that get me used to paddling, making extended trips possible. And, day trips are fun, too.

Consider Captain Tolley’s crack cure. I’ve used it on gel coat spider cracks. I don’t know if it is appropriate for the cracks in that Great Canadian, which look wider than spider cracks. But if the gel coat is hanging on tough, maybe all that is needed is a sealer to separate the inside of the...

If it’s a Tripper, buy it. If it’s a Discovery, it’s going to be heavier and very rugged, think about it. I recently sold my 2000 Tripper for $400. I was throwing away paperwork and came across a Maryland title. I once ran an electric motor on it and had registered it. The state issued the...

I’ve paddled the Advantage a few more times and have a few more thoughts. Sit and switch is the way to paddle it. I’m much slower paddling it on one side with correction strokes. I’ve been working on the sit and switch. I think I’ve improved, but thus far, I have to say I don’t much enjoy it...

I used Titebond 3 to glue a wooden do-dad that sat outside on the ground and in the weather for two years. I was surprised that the glue was holding up strong. TB3 might not be good for immersion, but it’ll stand up to weather.

Welcome to the site. A man can fix almost anything, but why? It’s going to be a lot of effort. And when it’s finished you’ll have an old Tripper. I love the Tripper, but it’s not hard to find Trippers for sale in the mid hundreds dollar range. For example, I have one, a year 2000 build, that I...

I see a line! Funny, how from above, I always see the line. Paddling on the river, it never looks the same.

I enjoyed the video. Thanks for posting. I’m impressed by the work James Carey must do to capture all that relaxing. Set up a camera. Hopefully, he has a remote so he doesn’t have to turn it on and then rush over to his kitchen to start cooking, or into his next “action” shot. Reset camera for...

A great playground, indeed. I paddled all the whitewater sections, including Smokehole, Moorefield, North Fork during my whitewatering days. No longer paddling whitewater, I'm going back and paddling the flatwater sections in between. All the river sections existed in my memory as separate...