Recent content by Chip

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...

I had one. It fell out of the sheath, which was on my vest, and got lost. Then, I found the exact same knife laying on the ground at a port around a beaver dam. I was back in business. That one got lost, too. Counting the one I found, that is three lost out of the sheath. Conclusion: they don’t...

“Tilley hat floated away.” good one!

Cross-bow vs. bow pry: I believe the cross bow is the most powerful stroke in canoeing, because you use your whole back and torso. When you need to move the bow a lot, use the cross bow. However, I’m a little slower with the cross bow, it just takes a little time to rotate, do the stroke, and...

I had a Maine guide paddle, never used it, and gave it away. It was huge, at least six ft, heavy and had a big blade. There was a p-net user with the handle pilotwingz. He lived in my area, but I never met him. He gave me some canvas bags and when he posted he was looking for a guide paddle I...

Hah! I live in in the eastern megalopolis, and so do you. It can be a long way to an immersive nature experience. My dad had my little brother and me out on his sailboat one hot summer day. Little brother asked for something to drink. My dad ducked below deck, came back, and handed little...

The thing about a double blade is that you have to hold it up all the time. Unless you are using a Mohawk plastic-aluminum single blade, or the like, the single blade has some floatation. When the paddle is in the water, its flotation helps hold up your arms—you get a little break from having to...