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It's not the raising itself; it's the strength of the roof in the up position when it's only supported by the ends. But it's not an issue, as we haven't needed to bring a canoe when we're using the camper. The canoe normally stays at the cabin.

That old fiberglass canoe I mentioned above... Mom and Dad gave up the cabin the year I turned 14, but maintained their membership at the camp and still kept the canoe there. Some years later I had a new girlfriend, and we decided to do some canoe camping. Dad said to use the canoe, and then...

When the roof is down, maybe; I've never attempted it. Certainly it'd have to be removed before raising the top. They made a hard top version that's probably more robust.

We really like our Tiger motorhome. It's a 1989 model, based on a Chevy Astrovan. New ones have eye watering prices but the older ones are more reasonable.

Built in 1942, certainly not fiberglass. Looks like a typical wood/canvas cable.

That video has me really wanting to get back on the water! I haven't paddled since last September when I tore my rotator cuff lifting my old heavy blue monster canoe; my new to me Explorer is waiting patiently in the shed. PT is going well so soon... I never heard of "freestyle" paddling...

I still own the first canoe I paddled, sixty years ago.

Product name "CHIPWA"

I must confess, I have two sporks and one is titanium, both gifts, not sure where either is. Like Glenn mostly I use a long handled titanium spoon. The titanium spork is actually OK (but unnecessary) if you're on the kind of trip where somebody brings steaks.

Dacron IS polyester; it's just Dupont's trade name for polyester fabric. Also used for aircraft covering under the trade names Ceconite, Poly-Fiber, and others, but it's all just polyester fabric.

No, it's a ruling pen. This is the one from my set, part of one of the compasses: You set it to the line width you want and use a dropper to squirt some ink in between. Surface tension holds it there and it's drawn out when it touches the paper. Tricky to use and easy to end up with a big...

Not sure which bit you're looking at but there's no metal scribe. There a couple of ruling pen tips, and the points on the dividers are for transferring measurements from the scale (ruler) to paper.

Probably not a big deal here; I imagine most people are posting their own images rather than from the web... unless it's in image in their own cloud storage.

I don't remember if it was an earlier version of Xenforo or another platform, but when inserting an internet image there was a checkbox to link in place or copy the and reference locally. Might be a feature that can be enabled? When storage was more expensive many admins preferred to reference...

I was speaking mainly of copy-pasting an image from my computer. But from the internet, if you copy-paste the image, it will then reside on this server. If you copy-paste the link, then yes, that link could break. Rightclick on an image in Firefox and get: But, if I copy-paste the link...