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i live in the sushine state and every time I go to the beach and see all the young and tanned hotties in bikini's I get severely depressed. Clouds don't seem to matter...

indeed, I under estimated the difficulty of mating the two halves, especially with the extra layer of carbon on my hull. Not very forgiving and required a few temporary cross braces in the hull to hold the dimensions to get a perfect match up with the deck. The deck was more flexible and...

you can thank the blood thirsty personal injury lawyer industry for all of it

Mark, you make it look easy :)

that was a great video, and arduous trip for sure. Jonathan you need to get a garmin inreach, ezpz to text the missus to have a chain saw air dropped in and let her know you're runnin' behind schedule. You have good manners too, After a few of those clearing sessions I would have released a...

never owned a tilly brand and was a baseball hat guy hat into my late 20's, still wear them now and then, but primarily wide brims for the past few decades due to sun protection. I've put my dermatologists' kids through college and keep his wife in a new mercedes every year. Funny arse post mem...

My favorite rifle in a canoe or otherwise is the Browning BLR in .308, but its obviously too much on small game. Fortunately around these parts juvenile hogs are small game and it works great on them. :) With 180 or 200 grain bullet .308 is more than enough to kill anything in N America. I have...

now yer talkin', I like this plan

I started as a kid fishing local canals and ponds in S Fl in the late 60's, but the canoe (also used little jon boats and prams) was a means to an end. Only recently, decades later, have I enjoyed canoeing and paddling for the sake of canoeing and paddling, but I'm still out there primarily to...

I fly fish probably 99% of the time these days in both fresh and saltwater and have been tying my own flies since the early 70's. My favorite fly for freshwater would be whats known generically as a deer hair slider, which is a variation of a Dahlberg Diver. Its basically spun deer hair trimmed...

ok so you're more in tune with a lot of this than I realized. Initial stability... That is a bit subjective by person I think, but this design has a very rounded bottom that is meant more for friction reduction than stability. I happen to have very good balance too, esp for my age. I think I...

yeah, if fishing and hunting were a sure thing it wouldn't be as much fun. Plus you wouldn't have an excuse to get out there as often. Can't help with the back pain thing, but have a chiropractor buddy that says there are a lot of promising things with stem cell treatments. Might be something...

Hi Mark, glad I decided to check in today. :) Overall I'm very very very happy with the northwind. I've done quite a few small excursions 10-12 mile local river stuff and one 26 mile 8 hr paddle with it heavily loaded. Didn't get to do the EC this year, primarily from not being able to train...

i'm an unashamed cliff bar guy, but generally use them for when a more prepared meal afield is not possible or convenient. 250 calories in a tidy little package. Always have one or two handy on any adventure. I agree some of the flavors are less desirable, but I find the peanut butter/chocolate...

that was great Gerald, you're out there getting after it solo tripping at 80. You're an inspiration. I can only hope to have your level of elegance at that age, assuming I even get that far.

Hate to come off as smug, but I don't think I've ever had what I would consider a bad camp meal. Most of my trips afield, canoe or otherwise were to fish or hunt.The areas where I was raised and still live there are lots of pan fish, catfish, frogs and turtles that are fairly easy to catch in...

lol, never owned the book, but the first car I bought with my own money was a 67 VW fastback, The lady I bought it from liked the fact that it didn;t need water, but she didn't keep up with the oil and blew the motor. I gave her a $100 for it and rebuilt the motor in my driveway for about 200...

black coffee in the am, water or 50/50 water/gatorade when its hot through the day, shot or two of aged whiskey after dinner around the fire and a water chaser before bed. Will take some beer on occasion but in our typical Fl climes that means a bigger cooler, more ice than I would need...

mem is officially my new canoe tripping hero... birch I have an 034 stihl saw I bought after hurricane andrew to clear debris back in 92, its been used a lot, carb cleaned and fuel lines replaced a few times, at least a dozen new chains and spark plugs, still runs like a beast though. A good...

That's awesome Robin. Axe guy here too. We can't fell timber around these parts either, but the seasonal hurricanes add plenty of blow downs to the natural dead fall that good firewood is generally plentiful in most wilderness areas that allow fires. Quality saw scaled to either a knife or an...