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This is horrifying! (Not the snake bite; I'm referring to the fact that this was a kayak trip.)

And now you have to edit this^ message, too. :ROFLMAO:

I've never seen any venomous snakes in the wild. I've seen plenty of northern water snakes in and around the rivers in the mid-Atlantic, and once when on Big Island in the middle of Lobster Lake, we happened upon a bunch of just-hatched garter snakes or ribbon snakes. And then there was this...

The idea of rolling around in the bilge water doesn't seem all that great to me. Maybe wait until you are on shore?

Very nice. Love Lobster Lake!

I never met Barry in person but we exchanged a number of PMs. A very generous guy sharing of his knowledge and love of canoes and canoeing. Will definitely miss his presence on the board.

Don't know about that piece of walnut but walnut can make a striking deck. Here's one I made. Bit of tutorial here. They were inset. https://www.canoetripping.net/threads/yaer-yet-another-explorer-rebuild.127182/

I have done new decks and gunnels from scratch on a couple of boats, but I've never seen a Colden in person, That said, from the photos you posted of the Wild Fire and Flash Fire, I feel confident the decks must have been epoxied in place because (1) it would be too much of a PITA to drill and...

Clearance. Depends a bit on model but with those recurved stems hanging down you are going to lose a lot of clearance and hook stuff.

Those guys were making some pretty good speed!!

I have a different cart with bunks that run parallel to the thwarts (when the canoe is atop). I think it was designed as a kayak cart. As others have mentioned, I have experienced a lot of twisting and have had to run lines from the bow/stern as well as use both belly straps across the...

There have been a couple of changes to how Zoleo provides weather reports. First, until late 2022, Zoleo provided local forecast from Dark Sky. After Apple purchased and discontinued Dark Sky, Zoleo switched its weather service to AerisWeather. AerisWeather is normally a fairly expensive...

Maybe the new owners of the house across the street need a canoe? I know I'd buy it if I were there.

I feel like this ^ did not get enough attention. That is a LOT of fish @Alasgun !!

Thanks, recped. Petty much what I would have expected. With water under the Typar, weight can cause some degree of wicking. I'm glad it leaves things at most only slightly damp under the sleeping in your case, but some of us weigh more (quite a bit more) than 150 lbs! So it may work for some...

Elegant solution!

I'm plainly missing something. If the legs only want to spread out and don't want to collapse in, it would seem like the idea of a rod connecting the legs should do the trick.

Exaggerating the size of fish one has caught seems to be a time honored tradition in most cultures.

For those using Tyvek or Typar as an innie, have any of you had an experience where after a major rain storm you removed the Tyvek/Typar innie to find water on the inside of the tent floor? Did the Tyvek/Typar keep that water from getting your sleeping pad, etc., wet? The reason I ask is...

Re-reading this build and going back to the original magazine article which is posted in another thread, I'm really impressed with the design of this oven and I'm a little surprised that with all the reflector ovens you can buy, including foldable ones, nobody is offering this design. I think is...