Recent content by PortageW/Cerberus

Gonediesel: Sent you a message via PM.

I was just working with some fiberglass on my MN3 project canoe yesterday. You need at least one new gunwale. I think those ribs need a few layers of glass mat and vinylester or polyester resin. Not epoxy. You would need to remove the seat bracket to get at that one rib; you drill out the...

That looks like Phil Cotton...

Labrador and Newfoundland are looking pretty good. :-( Hazy here (MSP) just looking 100 yards across my lawn to the woods...smoke smell is strong too.

FIRMS (interactive fire map)

If what I am seeing is accurate, the amount of land that has burned within Wabakimi so far is approaching the size of Rhode Island. It's a huge amount.

Another fun tale. Wife has a friend: apparently she, her husband and their only child (she was ~12 at the time) were at a VRBO somewhere. Wake up one morning and notice a bat way up in the vaulted ceiling of the great room. The wife shoos it out of the house. That's the extent of it. No...

Looks like the Syrupheads (term of endearment, rest easy) are following suit and closing Quetico. That might be a first. Blazing hot, windy, dry as a bone. Going to get worse before it gets better.

I'd bet WD40 might do the trick - often foam is secured to a hull with rubber cement....and I think WD40 should dissolve that adhesive.

When I was a kid (12? 13?) I came home from school and let the dogs out. They quickly kicked up a storm and I went out to find they had a raccoon cornered. Went inside, got bow and arrow, went outside and dispatched it. Went inside, opened phone book, called humane society or animal control...

Funny - my new friend was just telling me how none of that is true! He's invited me for dinner, and I will have to bring up the topic again. Fascinating guy, my new pal Jeffrey D. - oops - don't want to dox him... Let's just call him J Dahmer.

First, my load is always imbalanced and front-heavy, which does not help in the least. That said...having the rear step out on me is my one complaint of the hull (loaded for a week+). At times the sliding seat is not nearly enough weight shift to help, and I have to shift my pack (& Cerberus)...

Like so much else of mine...DIY, though I started with one of those bike trailers for two little kids...a heavily-used one; I just wanted the wheels and frame. That + garage lumber + workbench spare parts = pretty handy little trailer. Cerberus even stays put inside the canoe for the 2.5 mile...

I don't think they were suggesting a romantic liaison.

If that boat were in MN it would get real interest. Camden! While paddling in Quetico a few years ago I ran into a couple from Camden who had been coming to Quetico for a great many years every summer...and I was heading to Camden a week later for a family gathering. Small world. Cheers...