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These guys are great. I went in there one day this summer and bought a paddle, and ended up talking to the guys working for something like an hour. Two weeks later, I got stuck between a no-water Saranac River and the wildfire smoke billowing down from Canada. Pulled my boat from Union Falls dam...

The first canoe I owned was the first canoe I built, somewhere in my mid 30s. It was a terrible canoe. I sawed it in thirds after I built a better one.

I think some good options have already been posted, so I have nothing to add but - good on you for getting out there and figuring it out! Have fun, be safe.

I say, "hey man. Want some taffy?"

I like the Pocketboy a lot. It's a better saw than the Bahco laplander, but it's mostly an academic difference; I used the same Bahco for close to ten years and it never did me wrong, nor did it fail to saw through what I needed it to. The Silky just does things a bit, well, silkier. I have...

Their cotton anoraks are certainly not rainproof. This was a Vardag Hydratic, designed for rain, I should have made that clear! -MKH I like to wax the bottom half of my Keb pants. Keeps them from picking up so much mud and dirt, and I have a pet theory that it lets me wade up to my knees and...

You can send yours to me. I use them constantly for reading. They fit in a hammock peak net, they hang from a gear net in a tent, they stick on canoe bows in quiet low-tide ocean sounds, they hang in AT shelters. I did hurricane relief in the Virgin Islands once and they were a godsend down...

It's a basic point of astronomy. Redshift dictates that objects that appear red are moving away from us at very high speeds.

Welcome! There's a wealth of information here.

I just had to buy a set of whoopies this weekend...always a day late!

Don't have any recent data, but I've drunk a lot of beers that were like making love in a canoe.

Why on earth would I keep track of the ownership of a company I didn't know existed a week ago?

Thank you all - I hate to say it was something of a disappointment, all around. Chick hill was a lovely hike - easy, with the reward of a great view, and on a perfectly beautiful summer's day, thank you @bark-eater . Shaw and Tenney had no time for me. A man met me in a hurry, told me they...

Thanks folks. Shame about the Oronoka. Chick Hill is exactly the nice easy day hike I'd like, where I won't have to commit all day to it, but still get a look around and a chance to stretch the legs. I'll check out the museums, maybe buy a paddle I don't need...it's a vacation!

Most of the times I've 'helped' people who were making a cock of it, the advice wasn't very welcome. Dads are tetchy about getting shown up in front of their kids. A quiet word to a ranger, or park employee, is generally where I compromise, seeing things like that. ("You may want to keep an eye...

I'm bopping around mid-coast Maine, and plan to head up to Orono/Old Town/Bangor area for a day or two. Hotels are so expensive that I just bought a hammock setup and sleep where I can, so I'll head to a state campground outside Orono tonight. Besides Shaw and Tenney, Old Town canoes, and...

Welcome from Virginia.

I bumped through plenty of day trips with plastic paddles and royalex boats when I was a kid, but I didn't really start learning how to control a canoe until I started learning about birchbark canoes and trying to mimic those in skin-on-frames. I stumbled in to a freestyle symposium at Paul...

Yes, invest in a thin-kerf blade. Also a featherboard.

I will admit that I tried a double blade this summer. It squelched through the water with exactly the same cringing, lushing slurps as a large dog licking his privates in the middle of the night. The boat became capable of two settings: going forward in a straight line; or sitting still. A...