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I'll bet you didn't know that injuries from pickleball cost $400 million per year in the US. I thought pickleball was a sedate game for old folks. This article is mainly about injuries from football and other team sports. Still, we may see similar injuries from paddling. An overview of...

Traumagel is a new plant-based polymer that can be injected directly into wounds to stop severe bleeding. It is supplied in a syringe so it can be injected directly into a wound. The FDA recently approved this product for Rx-only use. The manufacturer hopes to obtain approval for OTC...

What's to discuss? Here is an OC-1 paddler's take on the question, courtesy of the Blue Ridge Voyageurs. http://www.blueridgevoyageurs.org/canoeVsKayak.html The article is too long to quote in its entirety, but here is a sample: ....Reasons #11, 12, and 13: Get more chicks/get a real man...

A cookbook for the guys out in remote fire towers. Today we would not want to portage some of the ingredients, but the recipes still whet my appetite. https://foresthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/1938Cookbook.pdf

I have a Celstron 6x30 monocular that I like very much. It weighs about 8 ounces. The image is remarkably sharp, clear, and free of distortion. I have double vision issues that are mostly corrected by my glasses. Most inexpensive binoculars do not have enough eye relief to use with...

I don't want to watch, thank you, but 77 lbs is a pretty small whitetail buck. That weight is consistent with the deer being a young one. Where I live that weight would be typical of a deer roughly 18 months old. Male whitetails of that age can do remarkably stupid things, like getting caught...

If you're going to "pak" it, how much does it weigh?

The canoes in Benson's post #15 above do not have ribs. IDK why there would be the single rib in the OP canoe. In its purest form, cold molding is a monocoque assembly, somewhat like strip built canoes. This beautiful little dinghy shows the construction. She has a keelson, seat risers, and...

More pictures, please Circa. My vote is also for cold molding. But I can't figure out how or why someone would install veneer strips in what appears to be a basketweave pattern. That would make a complicated construction technique even more complicated. Here's a photo of contemporary cold...

We store canoes on an elevated rack at car top height. To prevent birds nesting in the canoes, we hung rubber snakes on the thwarts. When we first started our big remodeling project, it took a little while to get the porta-john delivered. One of the carpenters had to answer a call of...

After two close encounters with hatchets, I have permanent injuries to my left hand. My grip is weak, and I can't hold a coffee mug with my wrist in a neutral position. I can't hyperextend my left thumb. It gets in the way when I try to type on a laptop keyboard. I would have trouble...

Meals Rejected by the Enemy no longer taste good to me. They are high in sodium and include lots of excess packaging that ends up as trash. I have become a fan of the tuna and chicken pouches mentioned early in this thread. Peanuts and raisins provide quick energy as well as slow burning...

It's fall and the water is getting cold! KOKATAT "Stoke" Dry Top, Women's medium. Brand new, never worn, neck gasket never trimmed. Wife does not like, refuses to wear. MSRP $449, now A BARGAIN, only $100 plus USPS shipping to your address. Please PM for particulars.

Badger, here is a link to the Upper James River Water Trail website: https://upperjamesriverwatertrail.com/maps/ And here is a website about the upper, middle, and lower sections of the James. The Middle James, Lynchburg to Richmond, is basically the route of the Bateau Festival...

Welcome to Virginia. It's a diverse state with a variety of environments. MKH has given good advice. The Bateau Festival is sponsored by the Virginia Canals and Navigations Society https://www.vacanals.org/ IME the first day of the festival attracts the party crowd. After they fade away, the...

Senator Kaine has co-sponsored (now 3 times) legislation to establish a 92,000 acre Shenandoah Mountain National Scenic Area in the George Washington National Forest. This area is one of the largest tracts of undeveloped wild habitat east of the Mississippi. The bill is the result of many...

Best campsite ever was on the Spanish River in Ontario, atop a pink granite bluff. Worst campsite was the night before on the same trip. We ran out of daylight and had to camp near a marshy area with beaver lodges. When I woke up the next morning the door of the tent was covered with...

Hi Doogie, and welcome to the forum. There should be plenty of good used canoes on the Richmond Craigslist. If you want a new boat, check out the Appomattox River Company. Their main store is in Farmville, and well worth the trip. They used to have a satellite location near Ashland, but I am...

Now I have a pattern for each end of the thwart, which I clamped to the risers. The middle of the thwart connects to the centerboard case, so a short pattern piece was needed there. Then I bridged between the pattern pieces with scraps of 1 x 4 or 1 x 3. You will just have to imagine the...

The Rossel method for making thwarts is pretty cool. It saves a lot of trial and error, and prevents wasted lumber. The thwart is ash, made from a tree on our property that was killed by the Emerald Ash Borer. The "risers" that the thwart attaches to are glued and screwed to the sides of...