Recent content by MyKneesHurt

"Tent Life in Siberia", George Kennan, 1870. Consistently delightful 100 pages in.

Thanks to all, I will continue to mess with it and see how she handles in increasingly adverse conditions. I have a fondness for little canoes like that. Yes, there are dowels running from seats to gunwales, so replacing those with a solid wooden bracket would effectively make thwarts out of the...

Hello all, I recently bought this little boat and, now that I've got new handholds and center thwart in it, I put it on the water in our little pond to see how it handles. The entire gunwale system shakes and twists fairly dramatically when I'm seated on one of the two seats. If I twist my hips...

There is a learning curve with hammocks but they can be enjoyable and offer great sleep and convenience. Plenty of good advice in this thread but I'll add my .02: Yes, you can side sleep in them, but in my experience it feels more like laying on a squishy couch, where you're not quite all the...

https://www.canoetripping.net/threads/the-adirondak-rebuild-almost-done.81930/ Here's a fellow member with the same logo on his (much nicer) boat, so I think the Stowe-Allagash-Adirondack connection is solid.

@Benson Gray HIN search reports that it's made by Scotts Custom Boats in Arizona...which seems to be a powerboat accessory company. Apparently several makers have used the SCS, and Scotts is the current holder. "Stowe Canoe and Snowshoe" here in Vermont, maker Bob Hartt, seems most likely at...

^ SCS63462H888 I couldn't find SCS, but the 888 is a good bet for a date of manufacture, thank you. What site/resource are you using to find HINs?

I've seen a dry bag blown up empty and set between the legs as a way to keep pressure off the ankles. I tend to kneel for both control and tradition (though it is getting harder and harder as the years go), and have resorted to just setting my butt on a thwart to keep the pressure off. Yoga's...

I snagged a fat little frog of a canoe off of craigslist last week. It was grossly misrepresented as an Adirondack Canoe Company 'Algonquin' model - the seller inherited with his barn and didn't care to dig too deeply into it - but after a few phone calls I've ruled that out. ACC does indeed...

I was very, very close to buying that canoe when it went up on sale last summer. I couldn't swing it. I'm glad it went to a happy home.

I've been wanting to make one of these for a decade now, and have never gotten around to it. There used to be a fascinating free PDF on mocotaugans available online from these guys - it was their book in its entirety - but I can't find it this evening. It's probably on there somewhere.

I'm not in any way combative or offended, and I hope I haven't put your back up! I'm happy to have a new perspective on it.

I will certainly bow to superior knowledge, but it's a hard theory to let go. Because I like an argument, I'll point out there's really only one example here of two equivalent boats being considerably different in toughness - your 40# IXP Phoenix vs 42# SRT - and that is hypothetical, not...

I talked back and forth with a well-known skin-on-frame builder maybe a decade ago and one of the things he said that stuck with me was - generally speaking, 30-pound boats are all about as tough as one another; same with 40-pound boats, and 50-pound boats. I've thought that way ever since, even...

I used my z-lite pad, folded up, for shoulder carries before I started building yokes. It's easily thicker than that, and it's got enough length to it that you can shift around under it to balance the canoe. I bring it anyway as a kneeling/sit/camp pad, so I'm not adding anything to my gear to...