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I have a Souris River Quetico 17. I would call it a comfortable canoe, good for neophytes. The 18.5 will be a stable canoe, and the advertised weight of 49 pounds is a bonus. I see they sell them standard with three seats as well, which would be a bonus. It might be one of the better options out...

With the weight you suggested, I strongly recommend you test paddle some canoes before buying. Take your time, and try them out in the situation you are suggesting. With great respect to the experience here, some of the suggestions are not realistic. You can't make an informed decision from...

Might help if you could tell us which particular canoe models you are looking at. Putting three people in a canoe might not go over the weight specs, but it might not be ideal either. We routinely ran 3 people to a canoe with grumman white water 17 footers, but two of the paddlers were usually...

The weather is definitely changing up here. When I first arrived in Northern Ontario in 1989, there were long stretches of -30 to -40 temperatures in the winter. Polar highs would move in and settle for 4 to 6 weeks at a time. This trend usually started around Christmas and would let up around...

Our club had some early Mad River royalex boats as well, and they were stored outdoors in our frigid temps, where -40 was not unusual in the winter. They had wooden gunwales as well. None of them developed cold cracks. I haven't personally seen any canoes up here with cold cracks, I've only...

Looks great! Will you be fiberglassing the inside as well?

I'll take those suggestions, driving a new truck from Hogtown back to G Town, leaving Friday, hoping to make Cochrane Friday night. My wife is coming too, so can't be too flea-baggy.

I would probably just fill that void with thickened epoxy, that's probably the easiest way to get it flush.

Those look great! I haven't pulled out that last piece of sassafrass you gave me, but looking at those paddles sure makes me want to.

12 inches is doable for the Raven, I'm not sure, but I think my first one was 10 inches back, as a reference, here's a pic. With the seat so far back, I always loaded the heavy barrel in front of me and it sort of made for a neutral waterline. Keep in mind that John Winters said that his solo...

I'm trying to get ready for a trip in June as well, still not sure if I will be able to do it, but the dream lives on!

I'm not sure there are too many Wabakimi routes that will meet your criteria. Most have ports, and the ports are probably not going to be what you are used too, if they are cleared at all. I know FOW do a fair amount of work, but between blowdown and fires, expect to run into conditions that...

I had a chum who successfully did his on a kevlar boat too, I think it is a cool idea. Did you need to adjust the width of the bow or stern seat?

-32 C here two mornings ago. Still shirt-sleeve weather, not sure what you guys are complaining about. ;)

Easy float trips are hard to find up here, multiple ports are pretty much the norm. If you have fat stacks of cash though, being able to fly in and out makes life a lot easier. A fairly easy trip would be to fly into Percy Lake and then paddle the Little Current River, getting picked up at the...

On the gunwales I build, I always coat the entire gunwale with a sealing coat of epoxy first. After I install it, it gets three to five coats of marine varnish, whatever the hull is getting. Maintenance is really just re-varnishing areas of use and abuse as needed. Using oil is practical and...

Most interesting canoe type video I have watched in a long time. Technically, he was single sticking it too, nice vertical stroke.

Wool pants shine for heavy activity in the bush. Even on high wind days, if you are pushing through snow in the bush, the wind will be cut by the surrounding vegetation. Having said that, with a pair of long johns, I have used mine for ski-dooing and ice fishing with success. I haven't...

I have routinely used sat phones in Nortbern Ontario, but that's a different concept from regular cell phones. It is strange though that the GPS on my phone on the basecamp app works everywhere I have tried it.

I think this was my first year with no actual canoe trips. I did a few motorized trips in the freighter canoe, but no paddling trips. Hopefully I can change that this spring.