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Won't make any difference. Despite all the hoopla about "penetrating oils" these are pretty much surface treatments. the oils will penetrate some along grain lines but not significantly into the dense wood. I have whitewater canoes with wood gunwales that I oil. I tend to slide the heel of...

I still have my Kevlar MRC Explorer purchased sometime back in the early 1980s before they started radiusing the outwales.

Looks like a Kevlar Explorer. There is often a little gap between the inwales and the outwales. MRC used kerfed outwales on that boat so there is a little lip that extends over and hides (mostly) the top of the hull. The hull thickness sometimes varies a bit along its length and sometimes the...

The center to center bolt hole spacing on the wood-frame seats installed in most MRC canoes was 8 to 8 1/2 inches. If the holes in the gunwales are spaced like that they were probably used for the seat hangers. The Independence is a symmetrical hull. If you want neutral trim in a symmetrical...

I would think that any stripper you use to remove the paint that you applied will also remove that which was originally used on the hull.

A few more Mohawk shots. Here is my friend leading a group in an Odyssey: Same boat and paddler with Frankie, the cairn terrier wonder dog: This was my brother-in-law in a Solo 14, his first time paddling a solo canoe: He did pretty well, only one swim:

Here are a couple of whitewater action shots of a Mohawk Viper 11: Nantahala Falls, Nanatahala River, NC: And one from the Slippery Rock Creek, Western PA:

I was paddling with a group on the Ocoee River in Tennessee that included some Ocoee first-timers. A friend of mine, a very experienced kayaker who had run the Ocoee hundreds of times ran Tablesaw Rapid, one of the larger rapids on the Ocoee, first in order to set safety in an eddy at the...

I used MAS epoxy to build a CLC stitch and glue kayak. That was back in the mid 1990s but it worked fine and has held up well. I do prefer West System epoxy.

Hard to imagine why that person felt they were necessary. Thwarts usually fail because they rot at the ends due to moisture entering the end grain and machine screw holes, or they break. When they break they usually do so near the center. In synthetic gunwales without metal inserts the...

I have seen probably a thousand Discovery canoes in various models but most have been Disco 164s and 169s. These canoes have been extremely popular models with outfitters and canoe liveries. I have never seen anything like that on a Discovery canoe. Nor do they serve any purpose that I can...

Those are certainly not stock.

Mad River has not made any canoes that I would be interested in owning for quite a few years now.

I have applied additional layers of thickened epoxy to fill voids, or additional layers of fabric as soon as the previous application has cured to the point of being solid enough to not sag or run. If you need to shape the epoxy, you will need to allow it to cure a bit longer although not...

Most of the time the only electrical devices I take is a headlamp which I will usually have even for a day trip. For multi-day or overnight trips I usually have a backup headlamp and a transistor weather radio. If I have a cell phone it is in a waterproof case which is in a waterproof bag and...

Well, that is certainly a good example of how not to do it, rather than why not do it. Even I have gone off vertical drops that high and higher in an open boat and stayed upright. Here is a guy in a decked canoe (C-1) doing a seal launch with a loop thrown in for good measure:

Canoe Magazine (which is what it was called at the time) was pretty good back in the 1970s and 1980s. Any "canoe" magazine that I have looked at for about the last 10 years has contained about 70% advertising. The other 30% were stories about breakneck adventures on whitewater rivers in other...

They are certainly not the same hull. Royalex Courier specs: LOA 14' 7", gunwale width 32", width at 4" waterline 29", depth at center 15", bow/stern height 22", rocker "slight", average weight 59 lbs. Explorer 15 (Royalex): LOA 14' 9", gunwale width 35 3/4", width at 4" waterline 33 3/4"...

Yes, your second and third photos show what appears to be exposed foam core. It is the brownish, granular-looking material. That might have existed when the skid plate was installed. I would start by sanding the entire area thoroughly to remove any remaining adhesive residue and loose vinyl...

Sure they do. Whitewater open canoe downriver racing and wildwater racing is still alive and well.