SouthernKevlar

The factory kneeling drops are well set for me, but I am over 6' and have 35" inseams. My biggest issue is getting my size 12 shoes...

I fly fish almost exclusively with cane (bamboo from Tonkin, China) some nearly a hundred years old. Mostly eight footers, some fairy...

I started this thread after a cross country trip across the southern tier of the United States, South Carolina to California, and now...

The Great Replacement of Canoes in the U.S. has been accelerating for decades now. Canoes are now somewhat prevalent only in...

It's another magazine list. Some of the rules are modestly humorous. https://paddlingmag.com/skills/how-to-be-a-happy-camper/

I sometimes use a wood straight shaft, sometimes a carbon bent shaft and often a carbon DOUBLE-BENT shaft. Now that should muddy the...

Look back and remember. Look around and learn. Look forward and hope. Here's wishing you many great travels with the new trailer on...

I have done a lot of canoeing in the last 64 years, and plenty of outdoor trips having an outdoor career. I will never make it to the...

Pickaroon is what we called that tool. Ours had a much longer handle used for moving pulp logs around on a sled or pulp truck. In use in...

This is a “hookaroon.” I was inspired to make it after seeing one in a YouTube video of Maine Guides making a shore lunch. I love it...

That is an interesting tool. A combination hook, spatula and bent shaft paddle! This is the type Hookaroon that I am used to seeing...

When I was 7, my first experience in a canoe was a 16’ molded plywood canoe built in Manitoba by a company called Plycraft. 1955...

With a background in furniture design and engineering, I have always loved woodworking and things made of wood. I had wondered about...

I posted this on the WCHA website earlier this week, but thought that I would post it here too. I am interested in the background of...

Such a beautiful SRT; I'm sorry for your loss. At least you are still around to replace the canoe! I have been pinned a few times in...