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, Yah, I know what you mean, it just don't feel the same left handed.

Just checked my one and only barrel that I believed to be 30 liters, and yup, it's stamped with an eight and matches your dimensions. While I had it out, I thought to stick my head inside to give it a sniff. I can't say I know what urea smells like but I did detect a whiff of something that was...

It would seem that not all of us overly anal, wooden deck plate folks have as much of problem with our breast hooks as you do.

I have three 5-gallon cyclonic separators, two Deputies and a Stopper. Both Deputies are dedicated to different machines; they have their own vacuums that are wired to come on with the machine. It was easy to ground these buckets for static discharge as they are stationary and I don't have to...

I have an extraction system ducted to each stationary tool. Each branch is gated so that I can concentrate maximum suck to the tool in use. The gates are manual but strategically located for decent ergonomics. The system is turned on and off with an RF signal transmitted from my person. My...

This is an interesting thread as I am currently involved with building a 13' solo stripper. It is the second of the same design for me. The only objective was to fill winter days with a project and use up some leftover cedar, but somewhere along the way, I decided I should attempt keeping its...

Seats bearing the name Conk were developed by me. Being a solo kneeling paddler the goal was to create a bench style seat that provided greater comfort at the third point of contact. I put a gradual contour on the forward rail and routed its leading edge with a generous ovate roundover. The...

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The hours of daylight at Adirondack latitude in October necessitates an early start. Bushwhacking through the boonies… distance, daylight and terrain have to add up with a comfortable margin of error for making it back to camp. In that I rarely know where I am going or how to get there, an...

I try to avoid hull critiquing conversations on public forums, folks tend to like what they have, and I'm no different. I have heard people criticize the SRT for its depth, rounded bottom and end fullness, all features that I like about the hull. I don't doubt that its extra three inches of...

Five days wandering about the environs of Wolf Pond in the Five Ponds Wilderness https://www.facebook.com/paul.conklin.927/media_set?set=a.10217395103782030&type=3

On my trips, I schedule a mid morning coffee break sometime between 9 and 9:30. I'm looking for a shoreline rock or a sunny spot with a view, lacking either I'll settle for parking the canoe on some stable vegetation and stay right in the canoe. I keep it simple and use the VIA instant, with my...

As a young child, I wanted to be an astronaut. I stirred the orange powder into a glass of water at every meal, believing Tang was the only acceptable spaceman beverage. I weaned myself off the Tang tit in the early 70's, at the end of the Apollo program, when it became clear that NASA would...

I have learned that grape Kool-aid is not an acceptable substitute for water when reconstituting split pea soup powder. I will also shun any freeze-dried entrée making claims to be Au Gratin.

Louis Seymour aka French Louie, one of the Adirondacks more celebrated characters lived by some very simple rules. He got up early, refused to bathe (unless he fell into the creek), cooked his breakfast in grease, put maple syrup on whatever it was and let the dog do the dishes.

I started spending time alone on the water at about the age of 10. There was a flat-bottomed plywood johnboat available to me on the creek where my father took us for holiday weekends. Countless hours spent pushing my way up and down that creek, hunting for a humongous bass named Walter. I will...

All of my meals are a one pot rehydrated something or other. I eat out of the same pot in which it was prepared. To clean the pot of any uneaten residue I add an ounce or two of water to the pot then rub the inside with a small silicone spatula until the walls are clean. I then drink the...

I recently discovered an inaccuracy on a USGS map that led me to believe Little Fish Pond, half way between Cranberry and Lows Lake, was not part of the Five Ponds Wilderness. The actual boundary is about 400 ft. further east than depicted. This meant more than 50% of Little Fish is state...

A beautiful stretch of river, I was with the Raystown gang in the fall of 2011 when we did a 12-mile section between Tyrone and the Frankstown Branch. The water level was ideal for poling and was some of the best down river snubbing I've ever experienced. I recall being very impressed by the...