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Glenn, the boundary between canoeing first aid and street first aid is fluid. We might encounter an OD patient while driving home from a canoe trip, or even on the river bank. Maybe it's unlikely that a person with a substance use disorder would come on our trips, but we can't vet all the...

It won't be on the shelf at your local pharmacy next week, but a major regulatory hurdle has been cleared. FDA Panel Gives Unanimous Thumbs Up to OTC Naloxone In the wake of an escalating opioid crisis, members of a joint Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee gave the green...

They can climb the side of a house as well; I've seen a 6 foot black rat snake slither right up my kitchen wall (on the exterior). I have a very old and very porous house and can't keep them out. There are lots of shed snake skins in my attic and basement. Only one has ever come inside the...

Canoe rentals in this area run $65-80 per day. For that, you get an Old Town Discovery 158 which paddles like a barge. In most cases use is restricted to the outfitter's home river. A brand new $1800 Esquif used only 10 times per year pays for itself in three years. It provides a much...

It's just an ordinary hall closet, containing coats, hats, and boots. PFDs are in two duffle bags in a shed, along with paddles, bailers, Grumman sailing rig leeboards, anchors*, fenders, and rope. There's also a stack of marine plywood and assorted lumber. Tents, backpacks, dry bags, and...

Tom Lehrer's "The Elements," to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's "I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General."

Come on, y'all! You are turning into humorless curmudgeons! Once upon a time, a young apprentice pirate signed on as crew aboard the Black Pearl. His job was assisting the cook in the galley, so he went below to meet his new boss. The cook was as fearsome as any pirate who had ever lived...

Fair winds and following seas, Waterdog.

Big progress today!! Raz helped me with the final installation of the sheer strakes. They are now wrestled, glued, and screwed in place. Two old guys deep in thought. Wife likes to photograph my bald head. The West System Six 10 was difficult to squeeze out of the caulking gun. Partly...

I'm bringing an old thread back from the grave, but......FWIW the CalTopo website can show an optional map layer for cell phone coverage for Verizon, AT&T, and/or T-Mobile. I would take this information with a large grain of salt, because CalTopo shows coverage at my house, where the signal is...

We can't read canoe books all the time. Ralph H. Blum and Mark Scholz, MD. Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers: No more unnecessary biopsies, radical treatment, or loss of sexual potency. New York: Other Press (2010) Derek J. Lomas, MD and Paras H. Shah, MD. Mayo Clinic on Prostate Health...

3a. Because the insurance company paid "replacement value" to buy brand new canoes when the old ones were lost in a fire.

Al, tell us more about your ice hook. The head looks like it was hand forged -- did you make it? I don't have much use for one here in Virginia, especially this winter, but I have been fascinated with the idea of canoe travel on ice ever since I read Garrett Conover's Beyond the Paddle.

I am without a dog now, after 24 years with the pack. We took one canoe camping trip with the two labs at Little Tupper, just paddled out to the first site on Round Lake. The dogs were excited and we thought they were going to capsize the canoe. When we broke camp, I paddle wife and dogs back...

You don't need a monitor. Just take your carotid pulse, count beats for 15 seconds, and multiply by 4. It's easier for me using a non-digital watch with a sweep second hand. That's what I did on that ill-fated night of square dancing in West Virginia to determine the 160 BPM.

Well, in the interest of full disclosure, I have to confess that I misunderstood the standings displayed on the fancy video exercise bike. I was only in the middle of the pack in the 20 or so riders shown on the display. I rode again today and was #1308 nationally; out of how many I have no...

I'm a wimp compared to you triathalon runners, but I do have a workout that improves my paddling fitness. I had an incident 6 or 7 years ago that shocked me into an exercise routine. Six or seven years ago we went to a square dance in W.Va. I whooped it up and got my heart rate up to 160...

Seeker, one of the few shortcomings of the wonderful place where I live is the lack of salt water. So there are no crabs here, and I have to go to Chesapeake Bay to find them, a 3-4 hour drive. Mostly I will sail on small local lakes, 50-100 acres. There is a big lake (2500 acres) in the...

Here you can see the curve in the sheer strake after two episodes of steaming: Extra persuasion with a ratchet strap and a pipe clamp was still required to bring the plank into position: You can never have too many clamps. Harbor Freight was the source for 10 deep reach C-clamps. Then...