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Uba helped hold down the front of my canoe for about 10 years. She loved the water and retrieving things. In this picture she doesn't care that it's cold. She doesn't care that it's raining. She wants to know why we haven't seen her favorite bird, a cormorant.

Fail 1: attempted to run a low head dam Fail 2: not setting safety at the bottom of the dam Fail 3: Dude completely missed his boof. If he even tried it was comically late. Fail 4: Crew hoops and hollers before assessing swimmer. He doesn't look good. We have tragedies here every year. A few...

Hey Earl, Welcome to the site. There is lots of good advice here, probably more that I can follow. You aren't doing anything wrong, it just takes time. My main advice to new (and experienced) paddlers is to practice self-rescue. Even if it is just finding a pool or clean lake, practice...

In college four of us paddled up to Moondance falls on Lake Jocassee. We thought we'd camp there. We arrived around sunset and discovered there was simply nowhere to pitch a tent. It's just too steep. We each laid out as best we could on rainforest floor, on the hillside, a tree at our back...

The Clipper he is paddling was manufactured in British Columbia. Don't know if it's in his district or not.

Your timeline certainly makes this difficult. As Robin says, gunwales can be made from hardware store wood. If you have a table saw ripping the edges from two deck boards will yield four perfectly usable gunwales. I suggest securing them with deck screws since the treated lumber is...

What older minivan would you recommend?

If I was looking for a reliable shuttle vehicle the Toyota Venza gets AWD and reliability as cheaply as possible. Like this one in Hartford. https://hartford.craigslist.org/ctd/d/manchester-2015-toyota-venza-awd-all/7769935296.html Of course an Outback in that price range is also a great choice.

Cheap and reliable are not easy. I fear that compared to a van most SUV will not be comfortable to move around in like you're used to. This vehicle is not new, efficient, or reliable. But it's gorgeous and comes with a canoe and trailer...

Clear mountain streams. The sound of cascading water. Sunrise over the water Mirror calm blackwater swamps

I think 8 seconds is fine for a van. I mention the Sienna because he's down sizing from a full size van, and the Sienna is the most compelling minivan available. If he doesn't need SUV ground clearance then a minivan is a great place to change after a paddle. Way better than a Highlander...

I've ridden in a Subaru Ascent. It is almost a minivan. It looks like the seats fold flat easily. If you're not doing aggressive off-roading it would be a great choice. I'm really impressed Toyota's current four-cylinder hybrids. The Toyota Sienna is bigger than the Ascent, but gets 10...

I've been wondering to what exactly happened to this canoe. It sounds to me like the innermost fabric must have had a blemish, perhaps a spot where the weave was pulled apart or something. Hiding it with a patch seems funny too. The patch implies something is broken. It even begs whether it...

I think this is the key. Anything that has to be explained to a potential buyer lowers the resale. Especially on a boutique item like a composite canoe where potential buyers will be deciding if the drive is worth it.

There is a splashed Prism for sale in Williamsburg, VA. https://richmond.craigslist.org/boa/d/lightfoot-solo-canoe-prism-design-in/7769897517.html I'm kind of puzzled. I'm assuming it was a male mold copy, because if you made a female mold for producing hulls you'd hopefully have the good...

Nicely done. What kind of paint did you use?

My Dagger Gradient, a creek boat from turn of the century, had a sticker on it claiming a fairly large percentage of recycled plastic. Probably HDPE, like from recycled milk jugs. But I don't know if kayaks are still made from the same materials today. I think there are polyethylene canoes...

I've found a few canoes, including a Coleman and the aluminum one renamed"the Battleship". We found a kayak paddle last month on the Eno. I found quite a few license plates in the rivers of West Virginia's southern coalfields. Sometimes with the cars attached to them. We've found two box...

I lived on a lake as a kid, and really wanted one of those cool canoes from the shiny Mad River catalog. I was able to save enough money to buy a used inflatable raft. It was so floppy and short and slow. One day I managed to paddle it all the way across the lake. While exploring a small...

Like others I've seen this one on the map and wondered about it. Looking forward to hearing about it. Safe travels