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Good point about gov't funding of Quebec based companies. Esquif has been making almost solely T-Formex canoes for several years now. Hopefully they are profitable and will keep making them. Is there any better canoe material for a river tripping canoe with moderate whitewater than T-Formex?

From what I have read, the canoe market was virtually the only market for Royalex. However, it seems that it was a fairly significant portion of the canoe market. If Esquif can make a ABS/foam composite that is almost the same as Royalex, and make all its canoes out of it, and be profitable...

I have been canoeing in Maine since around 1985 in the days when we flew with canoes attached to the float planes. I met Milford Kidney at Lock Dam on what might have been his last year as dam keeper. I have done the St. Croix, East Branch Penobscot, Upper West Branch Penobscot and the...

I believe that the water level is almost always too low in the fall to start an Allagash trip on Allagash lake because there’s not enough water in the Stream to make it down to Chamberlain. But with all the water we’ve had this summer and are still having I wonder whether a trip in late...

I am planning a trip to the Allagash this fall. I plan to start at Churchill Dam. I have done the Allagash several times before, starting at Johnson Pond, Indian Stream, and Lock Dam (when we used to fly in before they banned canoes from float planes.) I understand that there is potable...

I know this is a canoing forum, but I once went to the ski store to get the bindings on my skis adjusted and i forgot to bring the skis!! To make it worse, it was snowing on the way home and I was 18 years old and had no experience driving in the snow and drove my car into a tree.

Thanks for all the replies. I am not going to risk flying with the 8R (although I did like the vegetable oil idea.) The outfitter who will be supplying the canoe can supply a stove and some other gear too. I wonder whether any other checked items will cause problems (e.g., hatchet, folding saw...

Have you traveled with it in checked bagage?

I have an Optimus 8R box stove that I got in the 1970’s. I just re-built it. Wondering if it is possible to get all the gas out to fly with it in checked luggage. I think not because these stoves use a rope wick inside the tank which will still give off fumes. I am afraid to risk it to the...

I am planning a trip to the Allagash starting September 19 for about a week. I plan to both spin fish and fly fish. I am planning to troll some streamers on the lakes. And, fly cast with attractors (Montreal Whores and Mickey Finns and variants) in the fast water and around inlets and outlets...

So this road and trail to the trains is relatively new then. (I am an old-timer. I have not been to the Allagash for 30 years). It is still not shown on the official AWW map. I assume it was part of the logistics necessary to get equipment in for the tramway restoration project. I don’t like...

The tramway portage is .6 miles. Using that as a scale of reference the nearest road is approximately 3 miles from the trains. I believe the only way to see the trains is to canoe to either end of the tramway on either Chamberlain lake or Eagle Lake and walk from there. I’ve been there three...

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Really, it looks WAY longer than that and I don’t see where parking would be legal. If water is low - - which I expect it will be - - my plan would be to put-in at Indian Stream and take-out at Michaud Farm. From what I have read, this should be do-able in any conditions short of the...

Yeah, if it’s not shown as a legal access point on the official AWW map, then it is probably not allowed. It looks like Indian Stream is about 1/4 of a mile. If there is a carry trail there, that would be a possible alternative to dragging the stream. Either way, I think Indian Stream will...