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I use the chaos method for my gear, it gets dumped in a pile in the front hall, sometimes cleaned up before being added to the pile and...

Will I Live to see 85? (Here's something to think about.) With this thread in mind, I went to my new primary doctor today. After two...

I almost missed this thread because I was so busy making sushi with this high end California grown rice...

I had the Mad River Canoe catalogs when I was a teenager and to this day, many years later, I think of Mad Rivers as the perfect image...

I’m really enjoying following this rebuild. Along with the TW Special refurbishment Canoe Tripping has two ex-Scooter & Hal canoes...

Sorry ! I'm late to the party. My advise will mostly be irrelevant. Me ? I would have pulled that degraded foam out of the stems, and...

Outfitting update on this canoe. It's in service, I haven't tripped in it yet but I've done a dozen or so day paddles. I don't go...

I retired at 62 in 2010, did two weeks solo in WCPP, at 64 I did the 100 mile crown land Marshall Lake circuit in nw Ontario, again...

unlike most here my paddling style changed dramatically at 55- that's when I broke my back and caused severe nerve damage to my left...

I have a ~10 year old Home Depole treated periodically with BLO/turp, and it's been holding up well despite general neglect (I have a...

I mixed up a batch of spar varnish, turpentine, and BLO. No success finding pure tung oil or hempseed oil (jeepers that stuff is...

Pssst. Wanna buy some solvents?

After trying and failing to get a group together for the last two months, I decided that it was getting pretty late to have an opening...

On the bottom it was in such bad shape I had to take it down so far because of whatever the previous owner had put on it. Which I think...

Hopefully the issue stays local and you can just infill. It sure sounds like you dotted your i's and crossed your t's. Good luck on the...