Recent content by memaquay

Yes, it was kevlar, it had seen some hard knocks, but I had refurbished it, sold it to the kid for what he could afford, for anyone else it would have been 800.

Wow, that's a lot of money for a canoe from 1996, equivalent of $2000 Canadian. I just sold a Souris River 17 foot quetico to one of my students for 400 bucks and felt bad about it. Are those normal prices for used canoes in you area?

I've got experience with the Spirit 11. I really wanted to dislike that canoe. I bought one for our club, mostly because of the layup, which brought it in at 44 pounds. Ours had regular wooden seats with webbing, but they were set really low like the canoe in the picture. That bothered me at...

David is a gem, very humble, a really nice fella. He was here this summer with his pal doing the Marshall Lake loop, spent the last night at our place.

The inner stem continues down another three inches, it would just be a matter of attaching more strips to the inner stem and extending them toward the middle, then trimming them up. However, for the moment, I think I will leave things as they are.

Latest update.....I got one of the kids to mount all the forms, with three #2 stations in the middle. Total length came to about 15 foot and change. I didn't like the looks of it, too square in the middle. I took two of the #2's off and decreased the side profile to be in between the #2 and...

Wow, very generous! I would love to refurbish that and add it to my fleet! I hope someone takes you up on it.

Yup, they are moving into the creeks to spawn right now.

Yup, it's all about keeping the ladies happy, if she's willing to come with me into the bush, then she deserves a little glamping.

Canadians have this idea that we are over regulated, particularly when compared to the Land of the Free. But registering a canoe? That's horse pucky. What does one do with a home built canoe? Does it have to be inspected?

It's been all work no play this year, haven't been outside at all this winter. Walleye season closed this weekend, so Irene and I decided to get out for an overnighter of glamping and fishing. Our pal, Chainsaw Rob, lives on Wildgoose lake, about a 20 minute drive from G Town. We decided to go...

Many of us here own multiple canoes, for a variety of reasons. I'd like to think it is because each canoe does something better than the other, and is used for a distinctive purpose. Canoe designers have been working for decades to design better canoes, this is not a new concept. Fellas like...

I remember when I was taking my whitewater training, I was really into asymmetrical hulls. The guys who were instructing me were very skilled paddlers. They absolutely hated canoes with asymmetrical hulls and rocker, every one of them paddled some form of traditional hull. So these fellas would...

I wasn't sure where this was going until I saw the picture. Your primary form of propulsion is obviously going to be a double blade. Perhaps the echo is not the best canoe for purpose, set up as a pack boat with the seat on the bottom. I was going to suggest simply heeling the canoe, but that...

That's gotta be a highfalutin Torontonian thing, we call those fancy half squares of paper towel napkins.