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have done similar, using a Bakepacker which isn't made anymore.. fish into an oven bag, with some olive oil and lemon, steam it that way. Not sure why I stopped doing that, huh.. (looks for old Bakepacker)

+1 on backpacking trips I carry soup mixes, then fillet and dice the fish, drop it into the soup and cook 10min or so.. as you say, delicious chowder, clean and quick.. in the canoe my wife likes to go heavy and eat well, I end up putting oil on a griddle..

I tried sanding and recoating similar cracking and crazing on a secondhand boat, it was a lot of work and came out looking like hell.. gave up and paddled, been five years now and still going hopefully..

the recipes at dirty gourmet have worked well, at least the ones my wife has picked out and made.. https://dirtygourmet.com/category/recipes-by-activity/backpacking/ a dehydrator is not terribly expensive, a lot of our meals are pre-made and dehydrated. Really you can make almost any recipe...

for group trips, I invite my son and his college friends - competitive swimmers, weightlifters, marathon runners, and a soccer player who is the toughest of all, she runs the portage.. then I dawdle along with the lightest canoe ;-) with my wife, she likes to pack heavy and take lots of...

Mad River from an old website no longer in existence, see it on the Internet Archive - All of my wood gunwales are oiled with Watco Teak, redo every year. The Mad River Explorer gunnels had rotted away due to being stored outside for decades with no maintenance.. I put on new gunnels and...

the volume of data available from cell phone is overwhelming, and I seriously doubt anyone at all is looking at it in detail. (source - used to work at Chief of Staff Intelligence, Electronic Warfare). The LLMs that are masquerading as AI and/or machine learning might change this, but again the...

I've had shoulder issues for some decades now, started with swimming but then also impacted paddling. Step 1 to find a good physical therapist, step 2 is to keep doing the PT exercises the rest of your life.. I have occasional pains but have not been incapacitated at all in those years. I was...

mine does have the cord and cord lock, but it does not work to keep the seat in position - I think what happens is when the boat is on the car roofracks, the cord is not strong enough to retain position against the bumps and bangs of going down the road.. I'm in CO, not a lot of ww canoeists...

I have a Wenonah Vagabond with this adjustable seat and I hate it.. incredibly noisy when it slips and bangs around, which is most of the time, never stays where I put it, adjusts nicely between too low for comfortably sitting and the upper setting which is too low for kneeling with feet under...

lovely work. one day, vintage reel enthusiasts will be on the forums asking about the extremely rare Alaska Supreme, beautifully made and seemingly unique.. ;-) on the fly rod thing, really the only rod you need is a 8.5' 6wt Fenwick fiberglass, it does everything. meantime I may have lost...

we had nice flowered curtains on our Econoline 150, snuck into a hotel parking lot in Salt Lake City as we'd done in dozens of other towns, went to bed. Unfortunately the cop had followed us in, waited 15min to see if we were going to check in, then woke us up to say 'you can't sleep here'...

I put Watco Teak on the gunwales of a couple of boats every year, and thought that was SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for these cans.. It seems to me always to leave a somewhat sticky residue, never thought to try it on a paddle for that reason. re-varnished a Bending Branches paddle a...

no experience with the AM Lynx, but we've had an AM Zephyr 3-man for some years now and it's a great tent. 6lbs weight is good for a 3-man, it's comfortable for 2 people on an extended trip, quick to pitch, and has stood up to wind and rain well. Originally bought it on sale as an extra tent...

I have an old Seda Scout kevlar with similar crazing in several places. Gave them all a coat of epoxy and regretted it. My epoxy skills aren't very good and it looks rather worse than the crazing did. Also I'm not convinced it was even necessary.. painting will probably help.

On my solo kevlar boat, I do something similar to Alan's plan. A carabiner on a line from the thwart to the stern, the anchor line runs through the carabiner. When anchored the carabiner slides to the back so the line is off the stern. When retrieving, there is another line to carabiner to pull...

a small film canister (remember those ? ) of salt for fish in case I actually catch one.. plenty of salt in any commercial dehydrated meal, won't need to add to those. as you mention - it is also useful sometimes for first aid etc. Since the last trip with a young man who had severe gastro...

no - though when I look at the one in the link, it's almost identical.. mine is a fiberglass Werner, a model no longer made. I've battered it nearly into submission ;-) carry it as the spare these days, in whitewater it's always the Werner CF Bandit.

excellent ! didn't even know there was a composite Outrage.. I have the original Royalex version, still going strong. I used to paddle it at 175-180lbs for tripping with another 30-40lbs of gear loaded in, it was never an issue. So I agree the weight limit of 180-190 is very conservative...

my wife uses a carbon fiber Bandit for all paddling now, much prefers it to the old Werner traditional shape. This is for whitewater, river tripping, and tandem front in flatwater. She doesn't paddle flatwater solo though.. my CF Bandit was an accident, bought a used canoe and they threw in...