Recent content by Glenn MacGrady

Here's another video by Jamie Barnes—a two canoe trip into two lochs in a sheltered glen in the Scottish Highlands. Snow is already cresting the Munros (mountains over 3,000 feet), and then the fickle wet weather of Scotland blows in a snowstorm, stopping the portage into the second loch. Good...

Ed's was the OEM manufacturer for all Bell wood parts. I suppose the first customer for your canoe could have requested an Ed's contour seat rather than it being a later replacement. It's likely the seat is the 32" version rather than the 40" version I linked. After the composite Wildfire moved...

Pseudonym, if you get tired of trying to salvage the wooden parts, they are made by Ed's Canoe: https://www.edscanoe.com/becareco.html Because my Bell Wildfire seat from the early 2000's and other Bell's from that era have flat seats, I suspect that your seat is not original but is an Ed's...

A different sort of wilderness trip in a different and beautiful sort of terrain. If you like the Barren Lands, how about relatively vegetative barren lands ringed with precipitous mountains. A Wenonah possibly Prospector with duct tape skid plates, NRS dry bags, fighter jets, bad weather...

That would make sense and is likely what Callan meant, rhetorically. I was thinking too logically and didn't even think of in your tent as a bear protection technique.

On his birthday today, here are some of the rigs Bill Mason used to shoot his canoe videos.

The author says: "I have learned that most FS canoeists will be well served (whether they paddle a symmetric or asymmetric boat) if their seat is installed 4 to 5 inches behind the centerline line of their canoe." Keep in mind that freestyle paddlers, when paddling for recreational fun, are...

Swift offers a lightweight fabric yoke that may be satisfactory for short carries: https://swiftoutside.com/product/packable-fabric-yoke/ Placid Boatworks also offers fabric yokes. Red Leaf (originally Bag Lady) no longer seems to. There are threads on this site for making DIY yokes...

He's debunking the method and calls it "the second worst way to store your food overnight." He doesn't name the "first worst" although there may or may not be a slight suggestion that it's hanging. Don't know; one would have to research Callan's writings on the subject. I have long thought of...

Gord, welcome to site membership! Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Also, please add your location to the Account Details page in your profile, which will cause it...

"Canoeists love to debate camping techniques. Single blade or double. Stuffing your tent or rolling it. Ground cloth inside or outside. One of the longest-running, raging disputes among wilderness paddlers is how to properly store your food to keep it away from bears." " . . . let me tell you...

We have had many threads here on various methods to position a solo canoe's central seat for proper trim. The following article offers a method using a carpenter's level taped to the bottom of the canoe and a fore-aft adjustable temporary kneeling bar. The freestyler author reminds us that...

$20 demo fee. It's a Swift-owned store. Swift and Old Town are the two open canoe lines that are featured, along with many kayaks, SUPs, paddles and accessories. https://www.collinsvillecanoe.com/sale--demo-weekends---collinsville-canoe--kayak.htm

Sticks, welcome to site membership! Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Also, please add your location to the Account Details page in your profile, which will cause...