Recent content by Rubbaboo

Great looking paddle! That paulownia wood is an interesting choice! I’d love to get my hands on some unfortunately it seems hard to come by around these parts. What do you expect the final weight to be at?

I’m making a bit of a career change this year and to kick it off am doing a special trip. I’m hoping to be out for 7 to 8 weeks travelling from the Winnipeg area to Sault Saint Marie via the Path of the Paddle route and then Lake Superior. This is a fairly local trip for me so costs will be...

It’s a pretty straight tracking boat and with its rudder it keeps a pretty good pace of 8km/hr, and pushing it can do 10km/hr with a big load. It’s got a round bottom and sits low in the water so big waves and wind don’t have a lot of effect on it. Its speed is pretty consistent in most...

Looks like northern Quebec or Labrador. Don’t recall seeing that kind of landscape on the Thelon.

This is exciting! Ive never seen a Savage River build, but if their quality is reflective of their pricing it will definitely be a looker. The MR Monarch is my favourite boat in my fleet. It would be nice if they’d offer an expedition model that’s a little more heavy duty like the Seawind, and...

Doh! You are right, I was reading the wrong part of the scale! I guess I should have come here asking for advice on reading my angle finder! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction Sedges! Thank goodness for the anonymity of the internet, I’m such a dolt! Side note - the new Ripplefx...

I recently picked up a Ripplefx paddle and put my angle finder on it and found it to measure about 7 degrees. I’ve noticed on some of my other bent shafts have the same measurements with the factor specs saying they are built 12 degrees as well. Would someone here be able to explain how these...

I’ve done the Paul a number of times, the last was 9 years ago. It’s a great trip but it’s pretty popular and well travelled. There’s a sweet beach/bench campsite on Paul lake on it’s west side that’s actually the preferred drop off spot if your flying in. Archer doesn’t include it in her trip...

Pak and Ally boats are not this, They’re painful to paddle on flat water. I love my pak boat but only pull it out as a last resort for the super remote stuff.

North Bay rocks. It’s pretty much the epicentre for canoeing in Ontario. Temagami, APP, the James Bay drainage rivers and so much more are a stone’s throw away. Lots of good escape routes for the doomsayers in the crowd. Lived there for 6 years, and would move back in a heartbeat.

Newest member of the Royalex solo club! Found my gal a Yellowstone!

There’s two seasons in my household, hockey and canoeing. My kids live for their yearly canoe trip. It’s a necessary escape from the city life, and they love the swimming and fishing under waterfalls, building forts, the rush of running whitewater, cooking and playing with the campfire, They...

World of Maps in Ottawa is great to deal with, great people and they ship all over.

Hard to say, I’d imagine they were still there, they just didn’t bounce your face as much. Maybe they looked like a big set of ears, which is their favourite part of a moose. Always wanted a dragon fly tattoo on my shoulder as a deterrent for when I’m tarps off. Coolest insect ever besides the...

Back in my tree planting days we did kind of the same thing except with a cattail head or some other weed by taping it to the hard hat. Worked well for the deer flys and horse flies not so much for the skeeters and black flies.