Recent content by daydreamer

Those boats look great Gump, particularly those beautiful decks. My tough love approach to our car involves hoping and wishing for a rainy day every once in a while, but otherwise my idea of my cars "tip top condition" does not mean showroom smell nor pristine shine. I do however take it through...

Given how far this forum has continually drifted (with thinly veiled purpose) away from canoes, and canoe tripping, might as well post a whimsical way to "paddle" an almost canoe. It seems everyone is colouring outside the lines anyway.

Here's a perspective. https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/birch-bark-scrolls-bay-mills-michigan-1.7106813

Old Town Twin Otter Kayak. Plenty of room in this yak. I think industry and paddling people have played fast and loose with "definitions" for a number of years. Not sure why, maybe because it disingenuously suits them, but it looks like yaks have hybridized with canoes and stand-up boards to...

Here's an interesting article about using canoes to (re)connect people with water. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/canoe-lending-hamilton-1.6470158

Garth Wallbridge just outside Yellowknife collects and repairs old canoes. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/mushem-canoe-repair-1.6441461

The author's remarkable biography in The Auk. https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v052n03/p0227-p0232.pdf

Yes, people can be distractions but distractions can be positive sometimes.

My advice is, not be too hasty. Winter might look like a hag right now but that's just the intemperate mood you're in, come November she'll be a sultry vixen whispering sweet snowy nothings in your frostbitten ear. It ain't her, it's you. She's the same beautiful season she's always been. We are...

A post ice out pre bug in mid-May weekender. Wish us luck. 3 out of 5 foolhardy fellows have signed on. What could possibly go wrong? September is calling. She is always her sirens song singing. I'll see if I listen this year. Always a splendid month to go tripping.