Recent content by eckilson

Update - its been a depressing winter in RI/southern New England - at least for boaters. Flatwater is frozen solid, moving water sections have dangerous ice shelves, and even the protected salt water coves that we usually paddle this time of year are iced in. The forecast for the coming weeks is...

Or make a real statement by dropping the big drybag. So here's the question - do you race to grab the best spot, or do you let it rotate around the group. We are usually a group of 3-5 people, and there are often only a couple of nice level tent sites. I don't usually grab the best spot right...

You're right - it is a Sentinel. The tag is still on the tent (never looked at it before), and I can just barely read Sentinel as the model. Unfortunately I can't read much else. I found this video online. Mine is a little different - grey and black rather than caramel and tan, and mine has 4...

My father's tent from sometime in the 1980's - when it rains I put up an extra tarp just in case. Its a Eureka! Expedition. I could never find out much about it other than these ads from the late 1980's. Plenty of room in addition to having sentimental value. Haven't taken it to Everest...

That looks really good. You are welcome to cook them on our trips anytime.

The good thing about living in southern New England is that we can usually paddle all winter. The bad thing is that we rarely get enough snow for snowshoeing. This year, the temps have been too cold for paddling, but we’ve had snow on the ground for the last few weeks. Last weekend we got about...

No - haven't seen Tommy in a couple of years - hopefully he will make an appearance at one of the spring poling trips.

My father... He was an avid hiker and mountain climber. He climbed Mount Raineri in 1962, and led a lot of winter hikes in the White Mountains for the AMC. As he got older he hated crowds in the White Mountains in the summer, so he decided to take up paddling. He bought a Wenonah Spirit II in...

Looks like NRS doesn't it. Not sure I would have caught it.

16-18 inches in northern RI - nice light fluffy stuff. I have a snow blower, but never checked to make sure it would start, and it didn't. May need to reassess that philosophy too. ;)

Haven't done it in a while, but on Royalex I used Vynabond for attaching vinyl D-rings and Weldwood contact cement (red can) for gluing down closed cell foam knee pads. Never had to deal with R-84 Royalite. I think Dagger Canoes used the name R-Lite. Don't know if it is the same as Mowhawk's...

I think the Wabakimi 18 looks great - beautiful lake cruiser. It is definitely going to dive into waves, but looks less likely to get blown around in the wind. 18' boats are a blast to paddle and really move. Friend of mine had a MR TW Special, and I got out with him in that boat whenever I...

Or a double blade. Kind of surprised that the opening shot of a guy in the prototype Prospector 15 is using a double blade. At least he is kneeing. (By the way, this video showed up on my Facebook newsfeed this morning - they must be watching me...)

Of the three, the 15 looks to me like a Prospector. The 16 and 17 are beautiful boats that I would love to have, but they look like typical touring boats. I love Northstar boats. If a could buy a new one it would be the Phoenix. You could easily slap the Prospector name on the B16 or B17...

My question is why would you call this boat a Prospector? To me a Prospector is deep and wide with full stems and a fair amount of rocker that is designed to carry a load. It’s usually a tandem that is a bit of a barge on flatwater, but does OK with a little current. With the full stems it...