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I have a Wenonah Vagabond, 14'6" and 40lb, which I absolutely love while hating the Wenonah adjustable seat it came with.. the seat rattles and bangs a lot, isn't very comfortable, and doesn't let me kneel as it's too low in front. Has anyone replaced this seat ? It's mounted on steel plates, so...

Sweet Composites is Davey Hearn, a legend in slalom racing.. bought my kevlar and dynel and peelply from them, good supplier. I have a kevlar boat, SS from Empty Canoes in MT. The builder recommended kevlar patches for interior, s-glass on exterior. The recent slalom races at Wausau WI were...

this would be my concern.. my boats always live either indoors or in the shade, have 25 year old boats that are still tough and resilient. A friend's Caption with Royalex hull stored in the sun, has cracked pretty much every time they hit a rock with it.. it's mostly G-flex and Kevlar patches at...

always wanted one of those.. but several days' drive from CO, just can't do it sadly. It's a very generous offer thank you..

I have no bear fears when backpacking in CO, because the bears are hunted here in most places, and fear man. In Yellowstone and Grand Tetons I'm frankly spooked.. those bears see a hundred hikers a day, never been hunted. We're just lucky that so far they havent' figured out that hikers are made...

that's the N. Platte, in Colorado.. the put-in is in CO, take-out in WY.. We used to do this every June. Then there were low-water years, followed by water so high the river was closed, then there was a big burn and the river is full of strainers from blowdowns.. it might be another year or two.

can confirm.. my MR Explorer was a shell with rotten gunwales, overgrown by vines, when I picked it up free off Craigslist. After repairing multiple cold cracks and replacing the gunwales, it is a fair 65lb. That's the upper limit of what I am willing to carry anymore. In fact we used this on...

that's much better performance than I have seen anywhere else.. typically ChatGPT will just make stuff up and confidently assert falsehoods. On a triathlon forum someone asked it to produce arguments for and against a somewhat technical question. Its response was some bland anodyne boilerplate...

oh it's a lot worse - the machinery is full of proprietary software, and you're not allowed to repair your own tractor as a result. The push back on this has just started, CO passed a Right to Repair bill this month. The electric pickups seem like a good idea for farming actually - charge every...

great, now there's coffee all over my screen.. ;-) that's the bottom line on introduced/non-native species. The long-established balance of the ecosystem is overwhelmed and descends into chaos, with all kinds of unpredictable effects, most of them undesirable.

I've used kevlar to repair a much-cracked Royalex hull. At that point it seemed the consensus was kevlar with G-flex epoxy, single patch. Others like 3 layers of 6oz fiberglass instead. To me it seems that would build up quite a lot of epoxy over the patch, so I went with Kevlar Aramid cloth...

I got a Vagabond for a more efficient flatwater boat than the old 1976 Explorer, still having a bit more stability than the pure flatwater speedsters. So far liking it a lot, haven't had time for a long trip yet but it fishes well..

Chaco sandals with a neoprene sock for the boat, crocs in camp. I'd like the high-top waterproof boots except I know myself, and would go in over the top multiple times on any trip.. so might as well just start out with the wet feet ;-)

on trips without portages, an ancient aluminum frame chair with nylon webbing, weighs about 2lb. There used to be two of these but a large Boy Scout (200lbs +) bent one frame, I made one good chair by replacing the worn webbing on the other frame.. for trips with portages, the REI-equivalent...

never used or needed an innie until family camping.. the big cheap family tents have floors that aren't waterproof, so an additional layer of blue nylon tarp inside helps. Of course the blue tarps aren't wholly waterproof either, but by the time the water gets through both layers it's time to...

that's a neat idea.. I have a fixed cleat on my whitewater boat thwart, used for clipping in a rope while rescuing involuntarily abandoned canoes ;-) but a net saver is another good use for a cleat.. I've done the combat fishing on the Kenai, wading in with a flyrod in between the snagging...

thanks Glenn, good to know he's still going..

Kaz has stopped taking orders for new Millbrook boats sadly.. these days the OC slalom scene is just full of MT Canoes, aka Empty Canoes, from Montana.. as I understand it they are basically the good old hull designs, Ocoee and Caption, made in composite. Here's John of Empty Canoes at the...

actually didn't realize they were still making canoes at all... I'd see lots of the MR Adventure which is a sort of plastic open kayak, scarcely a canoe. Just made me look, the MR website shows a T-Formex Explorer which probably is a fairly decent canoe.. wonder if they will in fact start making...

my first canoe was an 8olb Discovery. After one good portage I used some microcell foam left over from a whitewater saddle, cut and glued a pad about 20" wide across the middle of the yoke, 3/4" thick. This is superior to all the commercial products I've tried on a variety of other canoes. It is...