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Beautiful job, thank you for sharing all the details.

I made this roof rack for my truck in 2017 from HREW tubing and then bought some machined aluminum end caps to keep it from looking too home made. It has 5x 6mm bolts on each side threaded into the roof. I like that the boat's don't overhang the vehicle at all. Normally it has my wife's kayak...

I thought it best to start a separate thread for this question but @dutchlennart mentioned that the Osprey/Kite hull isn't a speed demon in my Kite+6% thread and it got me thinking. If you were going to modify the stock Kite design for the following parameters what would you do? -Paddler and...

I just wanted to say that @Cruiser was right on the longer paddle. I stretched out my Shuna as long as it would reach to 260cm. After spending days with both longer was definitely better. My legs were dry and I like the extra sweep stroke power at 260cm. Hopefully I get a chance to try one...

Day 7: We set an alarm but were up before it anyway. We packed up for the final time and were on the water before 10:00. That had us reaching Chuchie Lake Lodge by noon. It was nice knowing my truck was safely waiting for us. There was a truck off the side of the road up at Tsayta all shot up...

Day 6: Daniel had mentioned that Jean Marie island to Indian Point campsite would be an easy paddle and line us up to get off the water early on the final day. Chuchie was quiet, not as scenic as the other lakes but still quite pretty. We had taken our time getting under way and still arrived...

Day 5: We finished the last of Tchentlo heading into the final river section. It was log jam free like the last one and also very scenic. When we arrived on Chuchie Lake we saw our first people. There was a boat out fishing. I imagine the fishing is excellent if you know what bait to use. There...

Day 4: Not long after departing we came across a family of 4 black bears on the shore in the woods. Mom and a yearling took off pretty quick but the two young cubs were very interested in what was on the water. They were grunting up a storm excitedly peeking out at us. I’m sure their mother was...

Day 3: We finished paddling Indata and got onto the 2nd river section. It was a bit wider as more tributaries had joined in. It wasn’t too fast and there we lots of twists and turns to keep it interesting. We went under a bridge on this section. Daniel had mentioned that if we ran into trouble...

Day 2: We padded the rest of Tsayta lake into a head wind. It was very beautiful lake with lots of interesting rock formations. We headed into the river section expecting a couple of portages but not knowing for sure. Daniel had heard of a couple of people going through this year but hadn’t...

Day 1: We made the long drive out to Tsayta Lake with Daniel guiding the way. He’s a very nice guy and provided us with lots of good information on the way. We saw a moose and some black bear on the drive out. We got to Tsayta just after 12 but because of the bugs we packed in a hurry on the...

The Nation Lakes Chain. This is approximately a 120km long chain of lakes North of Fort St. James in British Columbia. It consists of 4 lakes, Tsayta, Indata, Tchentlo and Chuchie. The river sections are all class 1 but all have sweepers and other hazards. There are 3 log jams on the first river...

First trip complete! It was a little hard on the varnish. My wife, daughter and I did the Nation Lakes Chain in Northern British Columbia over 7 days. I'll post details in the trip reports sections a little later. I'll just say that I am very pleased with this boat. It carries a load well...

@Cruiser My spare paddle is a 240-260cm adjustable Shuna. It is the same shape paddle as my lighter fixed length Cyprus. I do notice I am more splashy with a shorter paddle which matters in a canoe. I would like to try a longer low angle paddle should I get the opportunity but I am very happy...

Initial impressions after a 8km paddle: (If that counts for much) It's quite stable. There's initial wobble but it hits a stop as soon as you lean it over. The tracking is firm compared to both my Caribou S and my Scorpio HV. There was a brief decent tail wind on our way out and at no time...

Thanks guys, the final weight was 51.2 pounds with everything bolted up or 23.3kg. Jim, the seat is just over 10.5" aft of center (26.9cm). You can see in this pic with me that the boat carries a fair bit of volume in the back. Looks pretty Swede form in that pic. After reading all of the...

Took it out to the backyard for a few pictures.

Installed the eye bolts then put schmutz behind it to distribute the force. When I riveted the caps on they domed in the middle unfortunately.

Thanks for that Pseudonym (y) I drilled an tapped the aluminum chunks then ordered a couple more slightly longer bolts. I then put the last coat of varnish on the inside. After that I sealed the holes I'd drilled and applied a little glass. Once it set some I trimmed it off and pressed...