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Canoe life JACKETS used to be fairly thin, have a tie around the waist, and come down almost to your hips. They were not like the "kayak" life vests that now proliferate with high cut flotation so that they will fit above a kayak cockpit skirt, nor did they have big protuberant front humps like...

Sounds like smoke to me. I have a hard time believing that an American citizen would be denied admission to all of Canada under Canadian immigration laws solely because he failed to pay a fine for not getting a $9 permit under one province's camping regulations. A parking violation would sound...

Thanks for the info, references and links. As I read them, a non-resident is someone who is not a citizen or resident of Canada. Hence the Ontario crown land camping fee should not apply to residents of any Canadian province. It also doesn't apply to persons under age 18, which should cover most...

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I'm unlikely ever to camp again in Canada, or even visit, but for the sake of completeness and for the benefit of future researchers, could you folks be more specific as to which "non-residents" have to pay an extra fee to camp overnight in the 89% of Canada that is crown land. I suppose a...

How do you know whether the wilderness you're in, or driving through, is crown land or not?

The video doesn't say this. Has Swift said it somewhere else? Oh, I see that the Wildfire and Flashfire no longer show up on the Swift website under solo canoes. Nor do some others that were there just a few years ago. Swift sure didn't give the Wildfire or Flashfire much of a market run. Less...

This winter I've returned to scouting girl's high school basketball players for the first time in 10 years, and last week I drove into Middle Village, Queens, New York City, to watch Olivia Vukosa at Christ the King High School and to eat some real pizza at Rosa's. However, I was shocked to...

I was a Cub Scout and then a Boy Scout in Troop 2, Staten Island, New York. Scouts is where I first went camping, but we did no canoeing. I made Star and was a couple of badges short of Life when I quit. None of my best friends were in the troop and I simply lost interest. Here's a picture of...

A media picture (Accuweather), but interesting for U.S. South swamp canoeists because it is so rare: Snow covering a Louisiana bald cypress tree and its Spanish moss.

Nice fleet. Looking forward to the outfitting. Doesn't @Conk make a double curve bow seat? Maybe you can get a trade-in for one.

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"It was the best of times . . . ." "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done . . . ." S u s p e n s e . . . Show us!

I'm guessing that Robin is posting translations from the organization's website to keep us up to date as to their progress.

Congrats, Al. You may want to consider investing in some tie-down rope for your wind-wandering-when-you're-gone canoe. I'm going to move all these "How to Get Heavy Ice Out of a Canoe" posts into a separate thread by that name.

Back your car, unseen, into the canoe to shove it downhill into the public road. Then place an emergency road blockage call to the highway department to bring up the big tractor we've seen pictured. Tip the tractor driver $50 to move the canoe up the hill.

I don't see deer but I do see a lovely rib/plank canoe. Is that a Tom MacKenzie build?

On the subject of decks, I really like what Savage River did with the decks on Marc Ornstein's Illusion.

I was very conscious of being careful. As I will detail in my upcoming winter paddling wardrobe thread, I was in a new drysuit for all four days. My evolving warmth experimentation was deciding on appropriate underlayers, on hand and face protection against penetratingly cold wind, and on warm...

Some good tips on how to train and paddle with a canoe dog in this essay: Dog Paddlin' The title is also a self-referential pun. Marc's business name is Dogpaddle Canoe and Woodworks.