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Nice video, the birds look delicious. At 4:23 is that ghee? Homemade? Thanks for sharing your trip.

After a few days paddling the lakes of down east Maine, our group stopped to visit Dale Toby’s shop in Grand Lake Stream. Dale builds and repairs wood canvas canoes and square stern canoes (Grand Lakers) Dale is in the green checkered jacket, he is also a fishing/hunting guide out of Grand Lake...

Schuyler told me that a fishing club in Pennsylvania asked him to replace their aging fleet of similar boats. He made some adjustments to keep it more canoe like than the boats they had. He built a form and I think he made them 1/2 a dozen at least, plus he had a couple of his customers build...

That is very interesting, I love that book. I’m going to pull it out and read it again, see if I can find all those names, then follow the routes and their experiences they had. Great find, Thanks for sharing it.

I like my 16’ wood canvas square stern canoe built by Schuyler Thomson in Norfolk, Ct. I never really thought I would own one but I couldn’t pass up the deal. It has a 2.5 hp 4 stroke Yamaha which moves it along fast enough for my needs, and it’s great for taking my grandkids fishing.

There’s a new series on YouTube documenting a 1500 mile canoe trip starting in Old Town, Maine, going as far south to NYC, west as far as Syracuse NY, thru Lake Ontario then down the St Lawrence to Quebec City, then south back to Old Town. The paddlers are for the most part indigenous from...

When I have gone with groups I always bring my own tent. Unfortunately I have gone with groups who made a beeline to the prearranged campsite towards the end of the day and grabed the premo spots. I’m not a fast paddler, never in a hurry, so I had to set up in some awkward spots. I actually...

Sounds like the OP is leaning towards patching up the existing wood. While I’m no expert on Kevlar canoes, when I did work on them, I noticed how thin the sides where and how much the canoe depended on a strong gunnel system for structural stability. I also found that aged wood gunnels as...

Almost spiritual, the way Odyssey lites a campfire. You couldn’t pay me enough to have missed spending time around our evening campfires. Summit Lake, Marshall Lake circuit. L-R, Christy, Brad, (Odyssey), Mirand, (Mrs. Odyssey) Karin, Memaquay

16’ Chestnut Cruiser, Endless Lake, Maine

On my last 3 night trip, base camped with my new Campfire tent I had campfires mornings and evenings for cooking and ambiance. When tripping I got into the habit of cooking over a twig stove, sometimes even using the twig stove to take the chill off. I really stopped having campfires as I aged...

"The wearer moves in a fluid gesture to install the raft on his shoulders, and once it is well balanced, he begins to cross the path several millennia old." He goes from rock to rock with the ease of a balancer on a wire wire. In addition to allowing us to jump an obstacle or connect two lakes...

I started reading it last night too, Thanks for the effort, very interesting and the maps are excellent. While my days of trips like that are over, I really enjoy reading trip reports like yours, Thanks again.

Yes, an original Hudson Bay Cruiser, sold by LL Bean back in the day. It was a friends ax, I admired it during a trip to Quebec in the early 90’s and as we parted ways to go home he gave it to me. It’s buried in a log in this picture.

Whenever I have encountered strong winds coming at me I have two plans of attack. 1. Drop to my knees with my butt centered on the seat, I have always felt I gain a lot of power and less wind resistance that way. I keep the canoe as flat as possible. 2. I move close to that coffee pot Odyssey...

Some real talent there, beautiful workmanship. Thanks for the details of the build, that will a fine looking canoe when finished.

Nice tr, pictures too, you never know. My favorite, Well, this one too,

I was rewatching Ray Mears video about his canoe trip on the Missanabie River years ago and I noticed his small leather pouches while he was preparing bannock. I ordered one off of Etsy, along with a couple of waxed cotton bags. Anxiously awaiting. Anybody else ever use them?

Thanks for that report. I like those Leanto’s to hang out in for a while but only slept in one once. Too many mice running around all nite and I was up on a cot…haha I did that trip a few times years ago but don’t remember the beaver dams. Nice pictures, Thanks again.