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A whopping ten pounds. But you gotta do what you gotta do. If it saves me trebling all my portage mileage, it'll have been very worth it. @tketcham - thanks for the heads up! I'll stick with the tape.

I really think Sagamore is worth a visit. It's pricey (+/-$30 for a guided tour) but what a chunk of history. You can also pay ten bucks and walk around the grounds, check the (really neat) canoes out, but not go inside the great house.

I'm sure we can work some more TLAs into this thread! The bent ribs in the frame are tied together with long, horizontal stringers down the length of the boat. There was too much chance that a portage cart with supports parallel to those stringers (but probably not actually UNDER them) would...

I'm keen not to shoot myself in the foot going to try a big chunk of the NFCT if not all of it, so I spent today making a PVC portage cart for myself. Bomb-proof? Probably not. Will it get me a hundred or so walking miles? I bet it will. (In fact I bet about seventy bucks it will.) With a...

Yikes, my man. I'm glad you weren't hurt worse than you were. It's always hard to slow down and let yourself heal up when you've got a goal or task looming in your future, I hope you have some time to take it easy.

I can only speak to Virginia, but .22 and .17 aren't legal for any sort of big game here, and the quote may not be speaking to optimal cartridge size but more to legality. (I would think .223/5.56 would also be illegal, but that and a buck will get you a cup of coffee.) I used to be a good shot...

That's exactly what a lying robot would say.

These CGTFH posts are great. Much appreciated to someone stuck in a cabinet shop for the foreseeable future.

I'm essentially a backpacker that travels by canoe, but I've been a tarp camper most of my backpacking life. I don't have any experience camping with heavier tarps, canvas and such, but I know a lot about silnylon. The best bang for the buck I've found in the tarp world are Etowah...

Carvin's Cove, outside Roanoke. I haven't been up to Moomaw in ages, I may be due for a trip. -MKH

Got the last seat in. Don't have a good shot of how she sits in the water, but did get her out and was really happy with her the other day.

Someone told me that the era of courting canoes is where we get the term "canoodling" from. I half-way believe it.

@JohnSand I'd love a picture of your lapstrake canoe; always interested to see new styles. I've seen a lot of plank-and-stitch plywood boats, but not a lot of lapstrake-built ones. @memaquay it's an 840d ballistic nylon, available as a kit from the Skin Boat School - link here. A guy named...

^ I've beat the living s$#& out of them. People used to hunt whales and walrus out of boats like that. (Well, bigger ones than mine.) There's no glue in them, apart from the gunwales, so they have enough give and flex to bounce off rocks rather than crash into them. I've done a ten-day...

@memaquay I've built 12- and 13footers in the mid-30s, but those pictured are up in the low 40s, plus probably 2 pounds for seat frame, hardware and webbing. If you get them too light, they don't behave very canoe-ishly. When you look at either buying a 45-pound canoe for $3,000, or building...

Finally got around to making seats and putting them in a few boats this weekend. My favorite boat is up next; thought it was best to work out the kinks before I started messing with her. These are drilled for cane but it was quicker to just run to the hardware store and get webbing (still not...

My favorite old Old Town catalogue front. I would love this on a T-shirt.

Wait, is Royalex not the heavy stuff? I thought all the Royalex boats were up in the 70-80 pound area.

Never a bad thing to bump a thread and remind people to change out and restock their FAKs as necessary, especially as it's a chilly spring and most of us are eager to hit the trails. My big ones are tweezers, eyewash, immodium, allergy meds, ibuprofen (lots of that). I have a decent selection of...

Oh wow, that is one of the first books I ever read. The one that started me was Adney's Skin Boats and Bark Canoes - I realized that by starting to build boats and get around in them, I could in a small way become a part of that history of small craft that drove the population of so many parts...