Recent content by Glenn MacGrady

Looking forward to it, guys . . . this decade.

Tangent: You and everyone else will have the opportunity to make contributions on November 1, 2026, when our first fundraiser in three years will begin.

Dams have been unfairly and unwisely d*mned, including on this site. Without dams, both the lentic and lotic canoeing waters of the USA would be impoverished. Let's start with extreme lotic waters: whitewater rivers. Without dams, whitewater runs for normal paddlers would be limited to a...

Chesapeake Light Craft sells two varieties of foam pads for crossbars, one variety specifically for aero bars. Here's the page from their website: https://clcboats.com/products/aero-roof-rack-pads

That's quite deep. Just curious, where do you see that spec, Brian?

Deal/Hemlock SRT power! Thanks for taking the time to write up your report and posting it here, @gadabyte.

WNW, thanks for taking the time to document your first canoe build on our site. I'm not a builder, but I've looked closely at the specs, price, pictures, and videos of this canoe and have some comments. There probably are zero mentions of a complete CLC strip kit here. The retail price of...

"The best viewing conditions in a decade for the Perseid meteor shower — under a new moon? And a total solar eclipse at the same time? It’s all happening on August 12." "You can expect to see an average of up to 100 meteors per hour during the Perseids' peak." "The Perseids can be seen from...

What I don't understand, because I've never researched the subject, is what happened to the original purposes for which the 2,300 removed dams were originally built. They weren't built as hobbies. I assume they were built for important (or seemingly important) purposes such as hydropower...

It depends. "When engineers pull the plug on a dam, the lake behind it does not just quietly fade away. A reservoir is an artificial, still-water (lentic) system, and removing the barrier that holds it back triggers a rapid shift back into a flowing (lotic) river. Of course the water drains...

This is a Yakima Skyline "landing pad", four of which you screw into the roof of vehicles that have factory-drilled screw holes for roof racks. The towers with crossbars can quickly attach and detach from the landing pads. You can see the screw in the middle of this landing pad going into the...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/danube-river-wwii-shipwrecks-mammoth-bones/ https://nypost.com/2026/08/05/world-news/sunken-nazi-ships-woolly-mammoth-bones-surface-as-danube-rivers-water-levels-drop-to-record-low/

Geez Louise, folks. Could we follow the topic—which, to repeat, is: "what do you use for an innie if you do use one." Thank you for your attention.

This is NOT a topic to debate the virtues of innies vs. outies. I'm just asking about what do you use for an innie if you do use one. I've used an innie (and an outie) for many years with my 3-person backpacking tents that I've used for canoe camping. It is a nice lightweight fabric innie from...

At my age and health situation, virtually all of my canoe camping is now multi-day base camping out of my car. I have a three-person REI tent that I like a lot just for myself, but it gets cramped with gear and literally must be crawled in and out of on hands and knees. That was okay when I was...