Roybrew

Leaving on Friday, renting some gear and bringing my own. Got quite a few emotions going from excited, nervous, happy and others...

I too own a Coleman. Nothing to be embarrassed about.

12 inches is doable for the Raven, I'm not sure, but I think my first one was 10 inches back, as a reference, here's a pic. With the...

I epoxied rails to the inside on the one I built. After the trip I took last year, I thought it was to low and not enough back. I think...

Too many irons in the fire so boat building has been slow. I did run a large, fairly aggressive half-round file (almost rough enough to...

When in winter, do as winter does.

Evening paddle, Black Lake, Ilwaco, Washington

Thread drift alert: Well, it looks like the Ranger isn't quite dead after all (only mostly dead). Initial assessment is that it broke...

I stopped over at the canoe shop tonight just to be sure that I'd gotten the weave buried completely and was pleased that there were...

I spent a few hours this weekend spreading epoxy. My youngest daughter helped me last time but she's expecting in April and I thought...

We don't get much snow in this part of TN, so if we do enjoy taking walks in it.This 4" snow fall shut the schools and some businesses...

Is Spartanburg we got the season's first dusting of snow for a couple of hours, followed by several hours of sleet and then freezing...

Anchorage doesn’t get the extreme cold like they do in the interior of the state, it we get our share of wind and snow. Here are some...

We got more snow in Eastern Missouri this week than we’ve gotten in several years. Not canoeing weather per se, but we made do where we...

We live in the Midwest where it gets brutally cold and windy but there's rarely enough snow to get out and do something active like...