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Chibougamau! The brigade has finally arrived and will be ready to meet you this Saturday, July 26, from 1:00 pm to 5:30 pm at Centre...

TLDR: Don't leave synthetics exposed to UV. @Caledonia If you can feel a textural difference, the fabric is shot. Long answer...

I went to cinch my bowlines down ahead of a long trip at interstate speeds, and one of my hoodstraps ripped. Seems like UV degradation...

Woodpuppy I have tied my Hornbeck on my Subaru the same way and same location. The diagonal line and knot were always a bit of annoyance...

A couple of things that I have done that I have found to be improvements are: Using tubular webbing material for the loops instead of...

thanks, that is helpful - I also found $40 tie down loops for sale, that's ridiculous. Note the grommet kit is now $9 at BigBoxCo...

Gorgeous color on a gorgeous boat.

This has been in the works for a while now but last Saturday 7/19/25 I traded in my Hemlock Eaglet lll in the lite-tech layup to Hemlock...

No. Use a single blade... like a man. (sorry, I couldn't resist. OK... I suppose that I could, but what fun is THAT?)

Although a serious mistake, it was not at the same level of the error difference between metric/imperial. The Hubble telescope optical...

The first space telescope, the Hubble, had a similar metric/imperial conversion FU when its mirror was ground. Upon deployment the thing...

Let's not forget a $125M+ math mistake Metric or English. Not just the dollar value of the craft, but science information that was lost...

Woo-hoo, let's get patchin" :)

Razor blade scraper first, then Wd-40, then acetone. If that doesn't work lacquer thinner.

I bought some acetone and the goo gone stuff. I was going to try the acetone first, but I set it down somewhere and 10 minutes later...