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The Coast Guard covers areas that we might not consider "coastal." For example, the USCG Heartland Region includes the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Illinois, and Tennessee Rivers. River rules may vary slightly from salt water rules...

Coast Guard regulations require a vessel less than 7 meters long and moving at less than 7 knots (almost all of our canoes) to display a single white light. If the light is on all the time, there is no question about showing the light "in time to prevent a collision." Mine is an "all around"...

Thanks for sharing, Robin. I just posted a link on the WoodenBoat forum.

Laboratory post-mortem testing for rabies requires microscopic examination of brain tissue, which a head shot would destroy. https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/php/labs-specimens/testing.html I had never heard about the virus escaping. If you don't need the testing for confirmation, a head shot may be...

Just in case you were wondering. Cannibalism Is Bad for Your Health, Scientists Find Cannibalism became taboo in human societies not out of instinctive aversion but because it is ⁠harmful to populations who practise it, scientists from Poland and the Czech Republic have found. Michal Misiak...

A canoe on top of the car decreases your gas mileage. I figure -2 mpg per canoe, but it has been a long time since I measured accurately. It bothers me somewhat that we burn fossil fuels in an effort to experience nature in a pristine state. Same concern applies to paddling canoes made from...

You gotta be kidding. Does this: "(b) A person who manufactures or imports a boat for his or her own use and not for sale must obtain the required hull identification number..." really mean that I need a HIN for a homemade boat that only I use? How many of you DIY canoe builders comply with...

Nova Craft has a removable portage yoke that uses basic hardware parts. $27 CDN for the hardware kit, $150 US with the thwart added. The kit looks like ordinary hardware store items. I already have a salvaged Old Town center thwart. I picked up hinges, etc. at the local hardware store but...

Daphne Palmer Geanocopoulos, The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd. Hanover Square Press, 2024. Before reading this book, it never occurred to me that pirates were married. Sarah was the daughter of a sea captain, and William Kidd was her third husband. She was one of...

THE PURIST by Ogden Nash I give you now Professor Twist, A conscientious scientist, Trustees exclaimed, "He never bungles!" And sent him off to distant jungles. Camped on a tropic riverside, One day he missed his loving bride. She had, the guide informed him later, Been eaten by an...

"So there I was, a med student on the general surgery service. It’s 6 AM and we’re rounding as a group: students, residents, fellows, and the attending. The other student is presenting. "We had learned that it was very important to the surgeons to know whether the patients had started passing...

Remarkable! That cake deserves a post in the Canoe Art thread.

My post #4 above is the sanitized version. Here is an example of other skills Scouting taught me: When I was in 11th grade, my buddies and I were old enough to have driver's licenses. One Memorial Day weekend our troop had a 3 day camping trip. I rode to camp with my friends, John and Chris...

Lacking covered storage, we have canoes on outdoor racks. The birds find them ideal nesting sites. We used rubber snakes for a while, but after a couple years the birds figured out they were not real and therefore not a threat. We have plenty of real snakes, but for some reason they do not...

"Cats, as a class, have never got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in Ancient Egypt they were worshiped as gods." --P.G. Wodehouse