Recent content by Rubbaboo

Is this your Barracuda? What a beauty!

Yup! The two seasons around here - hockey and paddling! They still shoot in there lots so I’ll have a 5 month window to build during ODR season. Thanks Alan, that’s definitely a candidate, 14’ or less is kinda where my mind is at, I have other boats for tripping, this one will be my local...

Had a bit of a Marketplace score the other day, so I guess I’m going into canoe building mode soon. I really enjoy my wife’s Bell Yellowstone, can anyone recommend a model with plans that’s similar? Unreal, they’d been using the planks for shelves for the last 50 years, not a knot in the pile...

Tons, there’s Gotreker maps for the whole area, the Historic Saskatchewan Canoe Trips archives on Myccr cover lots of the area, some great YouTube content (check out Puddlejumper), and of course Churchill River Canoe Outfitters serves the area, they have a great website with lots of route...

Drive a touch further and come on up to Saskatchewan, water levels are back to normal and ample moisture in the bush. It’s been a few years since we’ve had these conditions. No permits required!

I’ve had good luck with 2 sided carpet tape, It’s semi permanent and can removed and cleaned off with GooGone.

Dehydrated strawberries are a favourite. They are kind of like taking a pinch of dip, you can suck on them for a while or chew them like gum and then to top it off for further enjoyment you get to pick the seeds out of your teeth. Rhubarb leather is also great!

Here’s my wife’s Royalex Yellowstone 88 1/2” to the front of the seat.

Easy, Clipper Caribou S

Id be interested in seeing some pictures of the rivets through the hull if you wouldn’t mind, my wife wants a foot brace on her Royalex boat and I’m a little nervous about drilling and riveting.

I’m very happy with my Kokatat pullover in goretex for paddling and my Mustang Survival Callan jacket has been great for the dirty work in camp and portaging. Both jackets pack up small so I don’t mind taking both on trips.

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.