Recent content by Glenn MacGrady

Looks good, Steve. Glad you met all your deadlines to get to WPASCR. I guess I never noticed and maybe you've addressed this somewhere in the thread, but why no rear thwart? The seat provides enough lateral strength for the stern half?

Thanks for the links, Benson. Here's an aerial photo taken above Locke's Mills (now Locke Mills). North Pond is in the upper left, with Bryant Pond four or five miles further away on Route 26, over yonder ridge. South Pond is in the upper right. The water between Route 26 and the railroad...

I also started serious canoeing in whitewater, where it was de rigueur to tie everything in and to carry a bailer (also tied in). I've kept up that practice when tripping on lakes and have never regretted it, nor have I ever dumped. All my gear is in three bags, so it's not time-consuming to...

Progress! In all things, we should seek progress not perfection.

Last time I fished I wrapped a bunch of clothesline around a rock, tying it with knots I made up. It worked on a lake. Of course, that was in 1956, so I'm not much help on more modern devices. Anchoring in river current requires some knowledge of hydrophysics. I think we have some posts here...

Thanks for the pictures, @Tryin'. They're great. That must be @Gamma1214's magic Merlin multicolor masterpiece in one of the photos.

This symposium is one of the several things to attend on my remaining bucket list. Bryant Pond was the post office address of the lake I grew up on every summer, North Pond, which is about five miles west of the lake and town of Bryant Pond. North Pond is connected to Round Pond and South Pond...

I've advocated against skid plates until the canoe actually needs them. Yes. Alan's dual approach makes sense to me, as epoxying composite fabrics has never been enjoyable to me. Since I've never before heard of the product being discussed, properly named KeelEazy, I assume some other...

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"Dramatic video from the Minnesota Air Rescue Team shows a nighttime helicopter mission that extracted a pair of paddlers from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA). Rescuers navigated darkness, rain and dense tree cover to reach the pair, who had lost their boat and lacked the gear needed to...

I was never young enough to backflip off a waterfall (or anything else). Obviously, the guy had done that before and was performing for the camera. He deliberately dumped his canoe and was surely familiar with the depth of the water at the base of the falls.

Thanks, Ken. I have wheels and perhaps a companion with a truck.

Thanks much, Brightraven. Lovely pictures.

I have an almost-good-as-new 15' Nova Craft Bob Special tandem in the Aramid Lite layup (40 lbs.), which I gave to my daughter in Orange Park, Florida, but which she's never used. I've soloed it from the bow seat backwards with water ballast in front. I'd sell it. At 35" beam, it's almost as...