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My first run in the Grand Canyon was in 1990 paddling a Mad River Kevlar ME. The wind (of course, upriver) was so strong in some sections that, like Glenn upthread, I was sideways on a low brace to the downstream water side, which was "upstream" on the wind side! I was often being blown slowly...

I've run the Jarbidge River into the Bruneau River in Southwestern Idaho a couple times, and camping on it in the lower reaches we've seen fighter jets doing mock battle practice with each other. They're stationed out of Mountain Home Idaho, to the north of there. It's really desolate country...

Don't worry about wicking water and delam problems. I think that's a fallacy. Can anyone attest to it actually happening to them? I've owned many Kevlar boats, beat the crap out of lots (recovering whitewater addict?), and never had a problem with it. This seems to be a hybrid weave on the...

Is that a trolling motor in the stern? < Huge Grin! >

Earl, The first thing I'd recommend is to join a canoe club. Here's one in Hamilton, Ontario: https://iroquois.tripod.com/ICOC/home.html#:~:text=Welcome%20to%20the%20official%20website,of%20outdoor%20activities%20year-round. but that doesn't mean there aren't others closer or better for you...

If anyone is into outdoor fiction, an author I like is a writer from Michigan who died in 2018, leaving some 60+ books behind. Not all are outdoor though. His name is Wes Boyd and he has a Website at: https://www.spearfishlaketales.com where you can read all his works for free, though copies...

I happen to like some of Pierre Berton's works. According to a bibliograpy I saw he did some 50 books on Canada, mostly historical, including some Northern Canada topics. Hey, the guy was born in Whitehorse Yukon, so he's gotta be good, right? It's not canoeing, but his "Arctic Grail" is a...

I just voted in favor of drilling gunnels and attaching fasteners for this boat because Kevlar (or other composite) hulls are often fairly thin in section just under the gunnels. My reasoning is that the lacing could "saw" through the thin material there. If the hull were Royalex or T-formex...

Sure do for me. I couldn't find my Buck Stockman pocket knife one day months ago. I thought maybe I'd lost it in a parking lot when pulling my car keys out of my pocket between stores or something like that. I bought another. Just a couple weeks ago I found it in my garage under a shelf unit. I...

It looks like Kevlar with gelcote crack to me. Not that I'm the know-all, be-all in material recognition. That yellow under the turquoise is a dead giveaway in my opinion. I'd patch just the cracks, not a whole bottom layer for weight savings, though if it keeps happening, a whole football on...

I've been on four of the 17 rivers listed. South Nahanni (twice), the Missouri (twice), the Salmon River (twice), and the Green in Utah (several times). I don't know that I can substitute rivers as I haven't run any of the others listed to compare and can't knock them off because of that. I...

The hull looks a lot line one of Ralph Frese's Canadiennes, but from the gunnel condition, it looks like it's been reworked, which wouldn't surprise me as the wood can rot. Ralph made several different lengths of those boats, and what I remember was a 14-6, a 16, a 17-3, an 18-6, a 20-6, a 26...

I agree with Alan. The sprint canoeists wouldn't do well at all unless some are closet whitewater paddlers (as if they'd have time for that sort of thing with their training schedules), but the whitewater paddlers likely would do very well simply because they know reading the water and how...

Glenn, I've done it with a carbide grit-edge blade in a sabre-saw (handheld thingie that seems to be referred to here in OR as a jig saw, which to me is a bench-type saw, but different strokes as they say). Was gonna do it to another hull, but turned it into a planter instead. Pic attached of...

I don't have any idea why I had my wallet with me, as we started doing Green River trips in Utah back in the mid '90s, and the outfitter we usually used there did the same thing, collected items you list and locked them in the safe there on the premesis before shuttling us to the river. The...

Traveler and CTC: This may have just been a "typo", but in case it's a misunderstanding, the carbon doesn't actually have anything to do with the hardening of the epoxy. Epoxy does take a long time to fully cure (weeks, months), though you can speed the process by heating in a process referred...

BF: I think the "Royalex" and "under 50 pounds" are probably mutually exclusive? Possibly not, me also not up on all the models available now or earlier. There might be some at around 50 pounds or just over it. Good luck in your search.

In 2015 we were canoeing with another couple on a fly-in trip on the Gataga-Kechika Rivers in NE British Columbia. Several days into the trip we had a semi-rainy day where we donned our rainsuits for a short period while on the water. My wife and I keep that gear plus some other essentials in...

Congrats on a project done quickly. It likely would have taken me a year to get it all done, and I'm talking just the one-off "slip" hull off the outside, I take it that the extra layer(s) in the seats area stiffened things up there sufficiently? That was my big worry. Less of a problem with...

My wife and I did the Lower Canyons of the Rio Grande in late Feb-early March on 2019, though in my opinion it doesn't pass your test of few signs of camping along it. There was an awful lot of garbage along the river on our run, most with Spanish writing on it, admittedly, especially in the...