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Something I always bring and never use, and never hope to use, is an extra meal. Not for me, but in case I find someone who is lost. I always bring a little extra for myself too, but I always bring and save one more serving of food for someone else. When I'm on the water I always bring an extra...

I'm about a quarter of the way through Don Quixote, and about ready to give up. Yes, it's funny that he's so delusional, but it just keep going and going... and going...

The worse the trip the better the stories. I have learned to embrace the challenges and laugh at my own misfortune (once I know I'm safe.) Like when I got so sick during a backpacking trip that I thought I was going to freeze on a 50f degree night (in a mummy bag, fully dressed in sweats...

A hammock is the best sleep I've ever had in the woods, and the whole setup weighs far less than a tent does, even the most expensive, ultralight backpacking tents. I can't believe I went all these years not knowing.

I like under armor type garments for anything athletic in nature, especially because it is quick drying and keeps my legs from rubbing together if I have to walk a lot.

All of the thwarts are round aluminum tube, and the yoke is fiberglass, molded into the hull, not a bolt-on like many of the other Clippers I have seen. It's ugly but surprisingly comfortable on the shoulders. My current idea is to mount a hardwood thwart on metal brackets just behind it and I...

It's the 16'8" Cascade. Its a big flat bottomed tripping boat. When I'm in it by myself and kneeling or even seated with my brother we are perfectly fine. It's when I bring my non-outdoorsy friends that it becomes an issue. You make an excellent point about intentionally capsizing to find it's...

That's what I was thinking. Add a thwart then bolt the outrigger to that. They are not very big, nowhere near as big as traditional canoe ourtiggers and I won't be leaning on them all the time so I think it will be fine.

My wife and friends don't have good sea legs and are scared of rolling it. Admittedly so am I deep down. I'm comfortable on boats but generally have poor balance.

The Davy Crockett canoe at Disneyland. I was really little, maybe 5 or 6 and I kept hitting my hands on those extra wide gunwales.

The other thing I was considering was adding brackets just under the gunwales like the factory mounts. It will be as high as possible on the hull, above the water line and I can silicon the rivets.

I have a Clipper canoe with hollow, slightly rounded aluminum gunwales (see image). I have things I want to mount to the gunwale, namely a set of outriggers. Can I drill and bolt/rivet to these without ruining them? Everything in the canoe is mounted on brackets riveted to the hull, nothing...