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My daughter took these on a paddle some years back, I'm posting them in reverse order: It's the bridge you paddle under going from...

So back in late July, I had decided on purchasing a Northstar Phoenix. I had test paddled a few contenders at Rutabaga and the Phoenix...

Well, it's no doubt silly but I guess I have to fix it up, if only for my own satisfaction, even if I end up giving it away afterwards...

Bumping this; like my canoe project life got in the way. Looking at it more closely I now see the blades are made of 3 layers; the...

I'll share meals/cooking with one or two friends, but with a larger group (very rare for me) or people I haven't camped with before, I'm...

It's solid but heavy; even moving it 30' from the rack to the lake is a struggle. If I can convince my son in law to take it problem...

It's not about being lazy, that took a lot of work. As somebody who's well out along the engineering spectrum, I totally get it. It's...

The original "Gorilla" glue was the foaming gap filling polyurethane glue, which was kinda brittle. It has its place, but not for...

For years a thin self inflating Thermarest was my pad of choice, until one day I was in Campmor and checked out their NeoAir, my aging...

I'm debating on what to do with this canoe. If I hadn't been paddling it for 60 years, I suspect I wouldn't even be thinking about...

I've seen similar discussions on a homebuilt airplanes forum. For wooden airplanes, epoxy rules today. In the past resorcinol...

Now I'm falling down this rabbit hole after 60 years of using whatever paddle was available... I guess finally getting my newly restored...

It floats! Well, it should. Much nicer than my old blue fiberglass beast, which I took out for one final paddle first. It was a...

Wow, two years later... life got in the way. But finally this summer, after a couple of years of dealing with family obligations and my...