Recent content by Glenn MacGrady

Sedges, tell what canoes you have. I see at least three wood ones.

Really late to this thread, but poling interests me. I regret not being more serious about it when I was younger. Steve, is that a Home Depole?

Me too. I tried it for paddling in the early 80s and a couple of times since. It doesn't breathe all that well and eventually loses waterproofness. I prefer a truly waterproof fabric with lots of ventilation ports.

Got about 16" here. Rhode Island got bombed with 38". The following article has an interactive chart that can be searched and sorted for different states and locations. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/02/24/search-snowstorm-reports-from-noreaster/88835559007/

Good demonstration video, Brian. I suppose that could work if one is a kneeler. Get into a sitting position and then, as a second step, wrangle your calves under the seat while you are sitting. But putting one foot in first, holding the gunwales, then sliding the initial foot under the seat...

This is a good question. I had to do some research. Xenforo changed how they handle resizing on the server and client side. As I now understand it: In a previous XF version two years ago, the image would be resized to 950 x 950 (or whatever I set my controls to) on the server side. The...

Thank you, Benson. You remain far superior to AI. It's interesting that the later Royalex "Rockets" were only 5 pounds heavier than the earlier Royalite ones. It's also interesting that the Royalite name was resurrected in the early 1990s for an ABS sandwich hull with the vinyl skin on the...

Ryan, 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, because canoeing is a geographic sport, please add your location to the Account Details...

Years ago, I was researching the first Royalex canoe on the market and one source said the Old Town Chipewyan (which may be wrong). The catalog page suggests that "Chipewyan" was more a family name of a group of different size canoes, such as Chestnut's "Prospector" was. Benson, is that correct...

The only situation where you would have to resize an image before posting is if it exceeds 8000 KB (= 8 MB) limit. That shouldn't happen unless you are using a very high resolution setting on your phone or camera—for example, the 50 MB setting on my phone instead of the more practical and...

Explained in the video, the water-land vehicle was built for a trip across Scotland and back, the purpose of which is to raise money for a charity that provides prosthetic limbs for children in developing nations who are born without legs.

Wow, in 28 days! Thank you, André, for such a thorough, detailed, well-written, and nicely photographed trip report.

On many discussion forums, such as sports forums, preserving images is not important because those forums cater mainly to current banter. This forum is different. One of its prime purposes is to preserve our trip reports, our build/restore/repair threads, our gear threads, and many other threads...

I also don't recall precisely whether it was under vBulletin or an earlier release of Xenforo, or both, that copy-pasting an image from the internet only linked it to the source. I don't have controls to enable or disable copy-pasting, but our webhost assures me that we have more than sufficient...

I wonder what purpose Nova Craft had in mind by putting a stem ring on the bow and not the stern. Yeah, you can tie a rope to it, but so what? I tie painters and vehicle bow/stern lines to the grab handles.