Recent content by Punkinhead

We've been getting flocks of sandhill cranes flying overhead northbound for the past week.

Not having an electrical systems means that's one less thing to go wrong. I just fly low enough to see the town name on the nearest water tower to get my bearings. An advantage of living in farm country and flying a plane with a tailwheel that lands at a brisk walking pace means the world is...

I still have a bunch of them packed away somewhere in boxes from our move last Fall. I'm not sure why I kept them in the move since I haven't used them since college in the 1980's and I was pretty heartless about throwing stuff away during the move. They just started excavating for my new shop...

I have a Google Pixel 7 Android phone and I wouldn't trust the compass for navigation. When camping in our RV I use it to find north when setting up our Starlink antenna. I've seen it vary as much as 30 degrees. I don't know if it's the app or the sensors built into the phone that causes that...

A wet compass is almost all I have as far as instruments go. I can't even see that when I have a passenger up front.

That's the exact situation I'm in and why I started my thread asking about tandems. The only differences are we aren't yet in our 70s and I (but not her) prefer rivers so I want a tandem that steers well from the stern because my wife will be of no help in that regard. Primary stability isn't...

Or Prospector.

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I'm not a believer in Goretex as far as breathability. I've owned, and still own, high end Goretex jackets and hiking shoes and, for me, they get every bit as hot and clammy as non-goretex. It's one of those things that is good in theory but doesn't pan out so...

I paddle a kayak in whitewater because I never learned to roll a canoe. On my last trip I got a gash on my forehead but that's the price you pay for not having to swim. We go to Florida for the winter and in the past I've brought a kayak since we sometimes paddle in the gulf far from shore but...

We're here at the same time each year. Last year was a wet one which really brought out the hoards of mosquitoes in Flamingo. This year is particularly dry. We wanted to paddle the Turner River from route 41 to Chokoloskee but turned back due to low water. On the plus side, it was nice not...

How was the water level? We did a lot of paddling in the Big Cypress last month and there were places we went in the past that were impassable this year.

We've been camping in Florida since the first of the year and will be here for a few more weeks. We've paddled several days a week - mostly in Rookery Bay and in the mangroves trails like the Turner River in Big Cypress and yesterday on Key Largo. We're moving north in a couple days to Myakka...

Thanks. Unfortunately I don't know exactly what I want yet. See my Help me pick a tandem thread. Ordering for later pickup isn't a big deal since my daughter lives in Madison and we visit somewhat frequently.

"They" being Rutabaga or the manufacturers themselves?

That's why I appreciate that Northstar doesn't call any of their models a Prospector. They realize how muddy the definition has become.