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I remember your niece and the Sockeye in the rainy race. I think they were one of two or three boats that made the entire circuit, including that war canoe where every paddler reportedly had his or her own bottle of rum handy. Pushing stuck vehicles in the parking field after the race was fun...

You talkin' about rain? Why, I recollect one time during the Wye Island Regatta when some hurricane snuck up on us and half-filled our boat in 20 minutes. Lucky we had plenty of beer in the cooler to keep up our spirits!

I likes me a Grumman 18 footer.

Pretty easy to solo a Grumman 17 with a double blade. It will probably be even faster than your pals in their kayaks unless they have sea kayaks.

Not sure why one would need a photo hosting site. I store all my photos on my hard drive and back it up regularly to an external HD. Since I only share photos on Facebook, I simply right click and copy and paste. I have been using my old Ricoh Singlex a lot lately for slides and I hear Kodak is...

I've pretty much switched to Kindle for all my bedtime reading. Much easier to hold than a big ol' book, plus it's cheap and even free to download books.

I use a Helmet, Sun that I got in a surplus store back around 1970. Not plastic. but some sort of molded fiberboard covered with cloth. Tan outside and green underneath. Rainproof so far.

I loved my 1994 Ford Exploder. It would haul our popup camper and a couple canoes without complaining. Only went to the shop twice, once for new radius arm bushings and another time for a fuel pump. Maintenance was pretty easy. Had to let it go at 260,000 when a parking lot ninja made a...

Old thread, but I'd like to mention Sir Ernest Shackleton's book, South, which covers his expedition's ordeal from 1914 to 1917 after their ship was crushed in Antarctica pack ice. Hard to believe they all survived.

Back in the 1970s, the canoe of choice for the rangers was the Grumman 20-footer with an outboard on a side bracket. I asked the ranger why they didn't use the square stern version and he said it was easier to get to the steering handle at the side instead of the back. Makes sense to me. Dan

Only three in my fleet, all 17-footers. A Grumman LWT, a Mad River Explorer Royalex, and a Novacraft Blue Steel Prospector which Mr. McCrea sold to me rather than pay shipping back to Canada. The Explorer is getting too heavy for my aged body to tote, so I'm probably going to codicil it to my...

There is no free beer. Anyone arriving after the "leader" is out of luck.

I've never led a group paddle, but have participated in a few. My own philosophy is that paddlers (and other cat types) shouldn't be led or herded, just told that the meeting point will have a limited amount of free beer. Anything else is up to the individual's motivation.

We used johnboats where I grew up. My first real canoe experience was with a pal who'd come back from The Land of All Bad Things with a hankering to build a canoe. I forget what company sold the kit, but it was wood and canvas and weighed a lot. What the heck, we were young and used to...

No canoe registration in Virginia unless one uses a motor or (I think) a sail rig. What, you mean if I hauled my old Grumman to MN it would be illegal?

You don't need power tools to mutilate yourself. On a trip down the Allagash in the late 1970s, my bride decided she wanted a pole to propel the canoe. I dutifully sawed down an aspen sapling and she set to work stripping the bark, using my Buck folder. As she prattled on about her theories...

"Yes, dear," is the safest response to most queries from the distaff side.

If I see this sort of thing in real life, I'm likely to start packing a shotgun with a magazine full of 000 buck.