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The confusion starts with the fact that we need a multipurpose canoe: we do multi day flat lake backcountry camping (so need something that can hold gear and also not be a killer weight for portages), and will also spend a lot of time paddling on Lake Huron (big lake!), and lastly would like to...

“You're probably lucky the creek was so low that rescuing the canoe and paddles was easy” Catoctin Creek wasn’t actually low on Sunday. Draining off the surrounding mountains Catoctin is only runnable within a few days of a hard rain. It had rained for the three previous days and the gauge had...

“I will miss Fox Worx.. My one paddle of theirs is a 46 inch bent so I can single blade my RapidFIre. I don't know another company that will make such a short bent” Zaveral maybe, or a Zav without the grip attached and cut the shaft to desired length? Our Recreational Canoe Paddles can be...

“Branching off another thread, it turns out there are many of us CanoeTrippers around the Hudson Valley and Albany area - the idea of a gathering was suggested, so I'm starting this for brainstorming purposes. I'm thinking a one-day affair, keep it local, simple, and informal (as opposed to a...

“I have two Camp bent shaft paddles, which have cork in the blades and are my lightest paddles other than my carbons. Al Camp sold his paddle business to Dale Fox in 1996, who changed the company name to FoxWorx. Now, Dale and his wife are retiring and I can only assume his sons won't be...

Trailblazer, that is wonderful. $100 a year and pastries is a bargain, and the stuff of which memories are made. An unused or unfilled private barn or garage or marina storage would be ideal, especially if near/en route to paddling destinations. Even lacking fortune-of-fate waitress...

“I installed these two inch spacers I made from the scraps when I made the trusses. That puts the bottom of the seat 9”s from the V in the hull. I am able to get my usual tripping boots out fairly easy when on pads/floor. I will adjust as needed after a water test” I like the idea of installing...

Woodpuppy and Stripperguy, thank you, you have prevented me from making a hard to rectify experimental mistake on some rebuild. I have lots of 423 graphite powder for black skid plates or keel strips, a little bit goes a long way, and a small jar of hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) to try for...

Not so much paddle technique as paddles themselves; FoxWorx Paddles shutting down According to the company website 2022 will be the last year for FoxWorx paddles. https://www.foxworxpaddle.com/ Mitchell Paddles is rumored to be going the same way. The world of canoes and canoeing gear...

I was recently given a full unopened can of West System 420 aluminum powder. https://www.westsystem.com/420-aluminum-powder/ I have used 423 graphite powder often in the past on skid plates and keel strips. https://www.westsystem.com/423-graphite-powder-2/ Other than the aluminum powder...

ALSG, Tom and I made a trip up to Blue Mountain Outfitters in Marysville PA today. I had e-mailed them a list of stuff I was looking for the day before: Plastic or composite seat pans. Old Wenonah stuff, new Wenonah stuff, Mad River IQ stuff, etc. I need a seat pan, my friend DougD needs one as...

“Testing isn’t easy as most friends aren’t readily accessible” Beyond, or before, on water testing, you can at least put the canoe on the shop floor on foam pads and see how easily you can extract your kneeling-stuffed clodhopper footwear from beneath the seat. Seriously, I have older, less...

Oh lordy, I’ve fallen down another rabbit hole. I don’t really need a new barrel, but I wouldn’t mind a 20L, or two, a small emptied container is sometime garbage handy. Crushed beer cans and etc. And I know a bunch of tripper friends who would appreciate differently sized blue barrels if...

I have not put three coats of Helmsman Spar Urethane on in a day, but regularly do two, and still lightly sand in between. But that is one coat early in the morning, and one just before bed, and usually on smaller pieces, thwarts, yoke and seat frames. And even those are hung in proximity to a...

I am still ISO a local source for used blue barrels, preferably not ones used for chemicals or fertilizer. On another board a poster offered this: I used to work next to a factory that made jam and marmalade. They had, literally, hundreds of those barrels. They arrived full of fruit of various...

“Once again a valve stem on my NRS float bags has come unglued from the air tube. Does anyone know what glue actually works on this smooth plastic?” Greg, I have successfully used G/flex and a tiny paintbrush to affix new tubes to NRS float bags, and to put new valves on tubes...

“Do you have any personal experiences or stories and solutions re this type of canoe storage space issue?” I have been trying to winnow down on our seldom used boats, letting go of stuff that just doesn’t get wet often enough, so we have storage slots beyond our own boats; plenty of room at the...

“I fabricated two poles with pulleys, then put ropes around the canoe with pulleys to distrubute the weight. Took some walking back and forth (I was alone so had to pull both sides a bit at the time) then lifted it over the edge. I think getting down is harder” No pun intended, but that sounds...

“$1995, even with the few extras, is an extraordinary price” I agree, $1995 seems pricey for a 33 year old canoe, even an immaculate and desirable boat. Although, looking at it in other ways, a comparable kevlar solo now runs, what, $3000+? Or, alternatively, with inflation, $1429 in 1988 is...

A Y-shaped yoke didn’t work for me, at least not with any of the increasingly complex adaptations I tried. We have pad eyes and short webbing loops along on gunwales of most of our canoe, and I was curious about the Y-strap concept; keeping your neck in the crook of the Y might be more...