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It is eight dollars to get in Silver Spring state park and four dollars once inside to launch. Have not launched from the State Park do not know distance from launch to car. Just talked to a park ranger and the rental agent from the water. Sorry to have missed you Balto Charlie. Drop us a...

Balto Charlie glad you made back safely. Looking forward to your trip report. Yellow canoe come on down the water is right. We have a permit for Blackwater Creek for April. Guess I will need to write a day trip report so you will know the conditions. Or maybe you could make it down a week...

The monkeys are breading (we saw a mother with her young last time) and yes it is very controversial. Used to be a trapper controlling the population. Last I heard they had him stop. Have personaly sean three different troups. After some very long debates my family has reluctantly decided...

Day trip on the Silver River near Ocala Florida that started with getting up at 3:45 am. The first thing I heard when the alarm went off was Its still midnight. This was the wife as she turned off the alarm. Luckily Rays Wayside Park is assessable early via a self pay station. Dawn was 7:15...

Thanks Philtrum. That is the boat I was thinking of going after and almost all the info I could find out on the net. An unpopular model. Although with that said it seams Mad River never had any luck selling any design over 16 foot. Alan you just made my decision that much harder. :( You...

Might have a chance at a Mad River Sundance in Kevlar. Was wondering how it handles. Would be using it as a tandem day cruiser. Can you call a 17.5 foot canoe a pocket cruiser? Really looking for a Kevlar or Black Gold Bell North star. Maybe even a newer Swift Keewaydin in Kevlar. Those...

Some are suffering from what we used to call cabin fever. While it can be quite interesting watching some one sub-come to this there is a cure. Come on down to Florida and our fluid water. The tress are just starting to leaf out. We can go find some wilderness canoeing and try to identify...

My favorite paddle is going to get me a lot of heat here in the land of the animal tail paddle. Think beaver or otter. But to my way of thinking and paddling there is not much better than a Bending Branches bent shaft with an epoxy tip that goes pretty far up the sides. Epoxy tips protect the...

After trying out a set of Thule bars and gunwales brackets on m y station wagon this weekend all I can say is you just have to love Quick and Easy brackets with 2 x 4. Have artificial rain gutters on my GMC Sonoma cap. Artificial rain gutters at the very start and very end of the cap will give...

I really have to agree with ppine. A while back some one else said "sometimes you just got to get out there." Did I quote you correctly Yellow canoe? To those of use who think like this it is a life style. Maybe even deeper. Cement ain't the natural habitat of our sub species I would have to...

Went out for a three hour trip last Saturday. Was supposed to go out again this Saturday. Then the bear came through the neighbors privacy fence and into my backyard. He ran around like he was out of his mind trying to get over my field fence/board fence in three places. So now instead of being...

Never paddled a OT Penobscot 16ft. If it is maneuverable then its good. What caught my eye was the Swift Keewaydin. If I remember correctly it is very close to the Bell Northstar. For experienced tandem paddlers this would be great. For solo the best I have paddled is a Wildfire. Have...

Just loved the "German Shepherd roofs (with the rear end lower than the front) " Perfect way to describe it. Around my house we prefer Boarder Collie roofs straight and use full :cool::rolleyes:.

To answer your question about length. In narrow spring runs and creeks 16 foot for a solo is pushing it. A Northstar 16.5 as a tandem is for experienced only. Madriver Explorer and Mohawk Blazers are very at home on the narrow streams for a tandem but useless as a solo. 14 solo boats rule for...

Trying to move this tread in a slightly different direction. Do not want to start another thread about car topping. I always like the front of the canoe (over the hood) to be a little lower than the rear. With the newer cars out there being lower in the rear are you making custom gunwale rest or...

Were/how are you tieing off on the rear of the Focus Station wagon turtle? Going with a Tule bar in the front and a after market cross member in the back attached to the factory rack.

Turtle what did cook? I guess that leads to how? During the frozen times pour over the maps and and books trying to find interesting places for the summer. Of course that was before the internet. As for that unfrozen water it is nice and following here in central FL

Ok so we just went out and bought another vehicle today. A 2007 Ford Focus station wagon. Not a bad deal. But not a great one either. Ow well it has very low miles, recent break job, recent tires, maintenance records showing all the oil changes etc... and it was owed by by a little old lady. No...

Wounder if instead of what we are used to using for webbed seats they used webbing meant for lawn chairs. Been poked by old lawn chair webbing a time or two.

Missing some of my favorites in central Florida. I am being selfish but that just might be a good thing. Starting to run out of great weather and trees are starting to lose their leafs. Even so come on down. Our water will soon be a whole lot less solid than the water up north. Need to dig...