Glenn MacGrady

I washed the boat today. It is definitely butt joints. There is an area near the bow were you can see light coming through a gap. I...

Hi everyone, I hope someone can help. I just bought an unglassed wood canoe that has been out of the water for at least two years. It...

Considering the outside of the boat was wet after washing the inside, I can skip the trip around the lake to find the leaks ;)

Chicken! 🧽🧽🧽🧽🧽😉

I sense from WCHA threads that many paddlers who have these kinds of boats simply live with a little leaking. I'd plop the canoe in...

I get the sense that part of the reason for the BLO/tung oil mixture in the boat soup is to reduce the dryness of the old wood and...

At the end of this WCHA thread, in which poster alick burt over a few years tries swelling the wood and using many coats of varnish, he...

Very interesting. I have no experience to offer, but as to this . . . . . . unless there is some special tool or jig or clever trick...

This reminds me about a tape measure I forgot that I forgot. I bought a brand new 20' tape measure to measure a used canoe I went to...

Very nice find of a historic canoe. I don't know what Mad River called that color. I'd call it sage green.

Who else brings a guitar or other musical instrument on your canoe trips? I have a Rainsong carbon fiber parlor guitar that I will...

This is such a lovely and interesting canoe. I've never seen such a construction or heard about canoeing in Denmark. So I'm curious...

Another 100 members added in exactly two months, to 1600 today, even though I rejected quite a few as possible spammers over that time...

We're not going to have debates about kayaks. This remains an open canoe site. That doesn't mean we can't have an occasional picture or...