Recent content by seuss

It occurs that you might be seeing a lot of this view on portage. Maybe you can mount something on that front bulkhead (upside down) that you wouldn't mind staring at. A map? A Bible verse? Maybe some WWII era pin-up style nose art?

I'm sprinting to put glitter and tape on all my shovels - though the Lorena Bobbitt imagery is a little worrying.

Just call it "Brooklyn"

A true farmersexual would be able to decode the secret message in the color stripes on the handle.

Alan, are you wedded to vacuum bagging the gunwale? Maybe consider heat shrink instead? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwExI_vnchE

Hi Hermit. If your avatar pic is any clue (and you didn't die under mysterious circumstances in 1972) I'd say you're right in my backyard. Bruce Watkins used to say that there was a very small stretch of whitewater way up Shaken Creek in Holly Shelter and another stretch on Shelter Creek up...

Hmmm. I wonder if there's a market for a canoe using a glow-in-the-dark pigment in the epoxy?

2015 Everglades Challenge starts in 10 days from Fort De Soto. Your MR Monarch would fit right in.

Plascore? http://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/Plascore-Board-for-Boat-Building.html

Stunning. Do you sign it anywhere? Or use a builder's mark or logo? It's a boat to be proud of.

Yet another Taco . . . 2010 2dr 2wd, Leer Cap w/ Thule racks & tracks

I just finished River of Doubt by Candice Millard. It's the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1913-1914 canoe trip down an uncharted 1000 mile long river in the Amazon basin. If you aren't already a TR fan, this could close the deal. It includes some interesting asides about the various kinds of...

I used to drive a 2002 Focus. It can be done. I used a pair of Yakima Hullraiser carriers. Be sure to get the aerobar adapters and they'll mount right on the factory bars. I often carried the canoe seen here (14' 6") and a 17' rotomolded kayak at the same time. I didn't enjoy carrying...

True that, but you've only got ~36" between the shelves in the back of your truck? A Big Agnes semi-rectangular specs ~78" as a "girth" measurement, so you're not going to pick up a whole lot of inches of thrash room with blankets. But sewing machines are cheap :) Have you considered using...

Lepmeister said . . . That sounds like a great trip Lepmeister, and great pics and vid as well. It's too bad that embedding videos seems to make threads unviewable without logging out. If anybody else wants to see the trip they can see the video here...