• Happy National Bugs Bunny Day (1938)!❓⬆️👨🏼‍⚕️

Search results

  1. madmike

    I need to buy a paddle on the interweb

    http://www.foxworxpaddle.com/straight_shaft_canoe_paddles.html
  2. madmike

    Solo Canoe - Length Verses Hull Speed

    http://www.greenval.com/shape_part1.html
  3. madmike

    Looks like a Sawyer Loon cheap!

    http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/boa/4967476070.html (not my boat)
  4. madmike

    Shop Replenishment Time

    If you find it difficult to find sanding belts of a specific size, it is super easy to order them custom made to your specifications, length and width, belt material, type of joint, grit, etc.
  5. madmike

    ​Carolina Winter Escape

    Great to see you having fun. I just got back from the Cape Lookout area. Camping in horse crap is not for me.
  6. madmike

    River rescue recommendation?

    When a boat pins, and all people are safe, here are some things to try. Center piont pins involve unbalenced forces of current on each side of the pin, with friction making up the difference. When you consider working on a pin, check for danger below, (strainers etc.) and watch out for other...
  7. madmike

    Flotation chamber

    I just bought a bag of tank plugs for my Bells. (They go bad over the years.) I got them from Placid Boat Works. Just call them up.
  8. madmike

    What can happen when you don't tie in gear in rapids

    Wow, that would take 1 min to paddle up to the eddy, hop out, climb on that rock, (3" water?) grab that canoe empty it, and paddle it away. Also the bow paddler in the first attempt needs some coaching... Pick your side, and stay on it, power is your job, stop trying to rudder.
  9. madmike

    Bead and cove

    No Title Let me try again. Let us assume that our hull planks are 7/8" wide, and 1/4" thick. The Frued bits in my photo have a cutter edge with a 1/8" radius (r- in the graphic). they will mill a perfect half circle on the 1/4" plank edge (positive and negative) I think this is too small...
  10. madmike

    Bead and cove

    I have not built a boat, but it seams that there is a flaw in the design of most commercial bead/cove set ups. I believe the radius of each cutter should be larger. The perfect radius would be 1/2 of the width of the planks. Cutters of this description can be had separately. This shape would...
  11. madmike

    ​Slow packing

    Maybe I will see you in NC. going to the OBX on 3/15
  12. madmike

    ​Breakthrough in DIY toilet seat technology

    "Groovy"
  13. madmike

    Swift Shearwater

    So who bought it? It was all I could do to stay away.
  14. madmike

    Recommendations for fixed blade knife

    The only Mora that I have in stainless is .super cheap, ( hard blue plastic ) I have never exposed it to salt. Simple water has no effect.
  15. madmike

    Swift Shearwater

    I don't think the Shearwater will be a mistake at all. (Right price, etc.)
  16. madmike

    planning idea's

    If traveling in the Lower Delaware NP, check out the free shuttle bus, with canoe trailer Pocono Pony
  17. madmike

    planning idea's

    Check with Blue Mountain Outfitters in Harrisburg, Pa. I think people paddle and camp on islands in the Susquehanna.
  18. madmike

    Bell tank plugs

    I noticed the plugs in my Bells were rotting out. I finally found perfect replacements at Placid Boatworks. Thanks PB!
  19. madmike

    Recommendations for fixed blade knife

    I love ordering my moras here. Ragweed forge. This guy is super fun. Call him..
Back
Top