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When I retired at age 60 I started sea kayaking, I loved the experience. After about five years I decieded to buy a cheap canoe for duck...

Alan had kindly sent me the plans for this canoe many years ago when I was contemplating building a new fat canoe for my pre-cardiac...

Excellent report, as always! As a side note, I took some whitewater training in the area of Five Mile rapids around 25 years ago. The...

I never liked the Penobscot much, and I have no experience with the other two hulls, but like Glenn, going by specs alone, I'd choose...

For seemingly far too long I have walked the halls of the Wilmot Cancer Center learning about organs that needed to be removed, MRI's...

I was obsessed with this story several years ago, and read as much as I could about it. As to romance in the wilds, it has been my...

Well, I just surfaced, I have been reading Ramblin Boy's extensive post about the connection between Selwyn Dewdney and Norval...

The more interesting trip would be to put in at the Ogoki Bridge, paddle upstream to the reservoir and make your way down to Cliff lake...

Not sure if you have read this book, but it is very good. https://www.amazon.ca/Woman-Who-Mapped-Labrador-Expedition/dp/0773540296...

When setting up for glassing I used foam cradles out near the stems where the boat is already tough. I didn’t want to risk the hull...

No idea, lol. I'd like to explore the warm States, particularly today as we get slammed with the biggest snow storm in a few years.

Stripperguy, I really appreciate you taking the time to dig out those pictures. They help a lot. Mem, you keep calling your work...

I'd still like to do some paddling in the States, I really hope I can work it out to quit working one of these days.

Floatation tanks might add a little more buoyancy in a complete submergence, but they will not make a huge difference in self rescue...

Stripping has commenced. Looking like a banana.