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Cliff is on my planned exit route so I'll lift a glass for him (maybe 2... one for me & one for him). I'm not much of a scotch drinker...

My wife kept pestering me to get kayaks, which I did after we got a vehicle that could actually carry them. They were fine kayaks but...

When I retired at age 60 I started sea kayaking, I loved the experience. After about five years I decieded to buy a cheap canoe for duck...

What got me into canoeing? When I realized it was easier to put the packs in the boat and go downhill than it was to put them on my back...

I started at 52 as an adult leader with my sons Scout troop who had a tradition of doing a BWCAW trip each August. Sounded like fun so I...

I grew up hunting, fishing, paddling and camping in the ADK's with my father and uncles. The hunting was OK, I was too young to carry...

For years, our family had a summer cabin at what was then the "Masonic Camp", a family group camp in NY's Harriman State Park. Most...

I don't really know. I guess the saying, "It's in your blood" really applies to me. my Great-Grandfather was a very rich guy (before he...

Brian, remind me to weigh it after glassing the inside & we can check to see how close you are. Planned lay-up is 4 oz e-glass in & out...

I predict that the bare hull weight after sanding should be in the ball park of 18.5 pounds, standard 6 oz glass if you are careful...

I'm not terribly fond of getting soaked in tepid water so I'll go to great lengths to avoid a cold water dunking (zero chance that I'm...

When I was 7 in 1955 my family spent a week or so at a friends camp on Muskrat Lake in Cobden, Ontario. They had a canoe but I was stuck...

I was a football coach and ran the weight room a life time ago. I injured my shoulder and really did not like the idea of surgery. I...

Our Boy Scout troop had done some overnight trips on the local rivers but among my earliest jobs was the local Boy Scout summer camp...

I grew up in Columbus Ohio. In the early 1960s, my parents rented a cabin on Tobermory, Ontario, Canada. At that time Tobermory was a...