DougK

A couple of updates: I used some Flood Penetrol on the faded hull. It turned out pretty good...

it's a problem.. finally got to retirement, the problem with retirement is now I'm old and everything takes longer, including recovering...

To put a rib in, I machine and sand the rib. Next I steam it, bend the first corner then force the end up under the gunnels and then...

One of those poll choices is correct, but I won't say which. I'm not revealing what the canoe is yet, but you all can guess if you...

100%. And... Everyone has different responsibilities and different baggage and different perspective. As a young guy, I paddled all...

The 2026 annual Assembly of the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association (WCHA) has been changed from its usual location at Paul Smith's...

once, in April 1992.. from the visitor center down about six miles, in an OT Discovery 158, which tells you it wasn't too hard.. river...

I got serious about paddling around the age of 30 after learning as a kid. It was easy to dream up the next trip and look at the want...

on every trip, the mantle of the lantern would have broken off somewhere along the rattletrap road.. still running a 1998 gas stove, on...

An old guide once told me to always carry 3 compasses. One as my own favorite primarry, a secondary in case something happens to the...

Well, while this pilot always carries not one, but two compasses on canoe trips, the FAA and aircraft manufactures actually do consider...

I'll see your obsolescence and raise you one... Like a fine mechanical watch, it's a pleasure to hold and use. In fact, Minerva used to...

Not photos of my father's originals . . . But when I was 12 in 1956, I was communicating with all of you at 5 WPM with this device...

Good point. I have to admit, I have gone back to white gas lantern and stove for car camping. The lantern, because it's quieter than...

Planimeter, able to measure to hundreths of a square inch. It was used by foresters to measure the scaled mapping area of forest stands...