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How did you find or stumble upon Canoe Tripping? looking for rigging ideas.. previously all my canoes had vinyl/alu gunwales so it was simple to pop-rivet or screw in nylon pad eyes or p-clips, for the rigging lines. Now I have two boats with wood gunnels, one yellow Explorer in Royalex and a...

bought an Alps Zephyr 3-man tent from Sierra Trading Post for $80 once, when we needed another tent in a hurry for a Boy Scout backpack trip. I tend to tent-obsessions, researching and testing exhaustively, so it was very strange just to go out and.. buy a tent.. It's become my favorite tent...

it was the least amount of fun I've ever had in a canoe ;-)

I have paddled my Discovery 158 from the front seat like this. The situation (more than once) was out fishing, caught by an unexpected sustained high wind which raised 2ft-plus waves on the reservoir. It was a headwind paddle back to the put-in, against the waves, with occasional gusts slapping...

I've been haunting Craigslist for years looking for a light solo.. here in CO it's worse as canoes are a rarity at best. Used Royalex solos come up occasionally, often at more than original retail. In new boats the best thing I've seen is the Esquif Adirondack, 12', 39lb and $1200. That's too...

an excellent point.. I learned CPR with rescue breathing decades ago. When re-certifying a year or so back was surprised to find CPR is now taught hands-only. However that as you say is for the general public with mostly cardiac conditions. The other aspect to rescue breathing I guess is the...

nearly killed me to learn the J stroke.. took me a couple of years to become barely competent at it. My offside J stroke may still have a small pry component to it when I get tired.. I used to teach a Boy Scout class, usually 3 days. Most kids got the stern pry quickly and could at least get...

I used Ed's knockdowns on a 1978 Explorer 16ft rebuild, three years ago. The canoe has done some class II-III whitewater and several BWCA trips with long portages which I think are fairly stressful for the gunnels. So far so good.. The gunwales are square on the inner edges, rounded on the...