Recent content by tketcham

With touring being the primary use of your new canoe, I agree with Neophyte and gumpus on recommending the Northstar Trillium. I haven't paddled a Trillium but own a Hemlock Kestrel, which is very similar in size and design to the Trillium, and think that if you pack like a backpacker the...

That might be the simplest solution but adding a full layer of bubble-foam padding to the seat would certainly provide some relief from the seam overlap abrasion. That and maybe tilting the seat forward a bit to shift the pressure point(s) off the back of the seat. I glued in foam padding and...

I think I'd ask (or look) to see if they make an adapter for round bars. Then you could rotate the gunnel stops as needed to align with each other. It looks like that version of Yakima's gunnel stops might work with a round bar and if they made an adapter for the landing pads it might be the...

Good to know. I've been resampling my images to a max size of 1000 x 1000 (or smaller) pixels before posting. Now I can just insert an image, perhaps resize using the editing frame, and it's done!

That's what I'd assumed and according to you and Glenn, it also works with web images. Excellent!

Never thought of doing that. Great suggestion!

The Wilderness Act is well-intended but misguided, selectively biased to accommodate hikers/paddlers with an idealized "wilderness" aesthetic. It's too rigid in its one-size-fits-all approach to management and ignores the fact that "Man" had been living in those areas for thousands of years...

Interesting, but makes sense given the size of phone screens.

Keep your eyes out for a Clipper Sea-1 canoe as well. It's a little longer (17' 9" vs 17' 3") and a little narrower (28" max width), but is essentially the same boat. The Mad River catalog lists the Monarch gunnel width as 28" so max width might be 30".

Thanks for that suggestion. I've been resampling (downsizing) images to better match screen displays but your suggestion is easier and faster.

How do you control the display size of an inserted image? I've tried changing image pixel size and DPI and the image still gets posted at the same (full) size. I'd like to be able to control the dimensions of a displayed image. Or is there a default image display size and what is that default...

It's from a couple of summers ago but brings some color and sunshine to yet another snowy day. Not that I'm complaining, this winter has been great for alpine skiing. Katydid, meet Lady Bug...

Here's a chart showing years of freeze over since 1816. You can see how the gaps between ice over are widening...

That's a nice one. The user defined scale entry would be handy because I often print my own maps but not always to a common scale. I have a cheap one that'll measure inches/centimeters and I have to convert to map distance.

Deitzgen is the company that made my Dad's drafting set, too. There were enough pieces missing, though, that I bought my own set for college. (Mine was made by Charvoz.) Drafting was one of my favorite classes, but I never designed machine parts or buildings for my job. Instead, I used the...