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Welcome to the circle. I remember Hyperform from the early- into mid-'70s, don't remember how long they lasted. I don't remember ever seeing any Kevlar in any of the ones I saw, not that many. The ones I saw mostly were the kits they offered, of hull and deck where the buyer had to seam the...

Time will destroy but people rebuild, sometimes just copycat syndrome. Sort of like buildings in a city, just on a smaller scale.

Man, it's probably been 30 years since I've been to Willapa Bay. Thanks for the reminder.

Knees, there are two kinds of paddlers. Those who have swam already, and those who are going to. It's easy, I've done it a hundred times.

I'd be surprised if I haven't told this story already here on the site somewhere. I was living in Chicago and going to college about 300 miles away in the early 1970s when I bit the bullet. A few years earlier, 1965, I'd done a church canoe trip where a couple of the preachers of the Rock River...

They look like ceiling shop light reflections to me.

Jm, I've never paddled a Prodigy, but if I didn't have a whitewater boat and wanted to try out what it was all about, if this one wasn't too expensive, I'd pick it up just to get on the water and seeit was something I like (by the way, I do). In the meantime I'd possibly keep looking for maybe...

I'm not gonna add more vids to the pile here as I don't think many of these Youtube celebs have anything that can easily be listened to in the car on the way to and from trips without some work on your own. Ladyva does have some albums of her boogie woogie music (and others?) out that could be...

Boogie woogie fanciers will already know of these performers, even though they don't do any "by the crick" performing (that I've noticed). From England, based in the London area, are Brendan Kavanagh and Terry Miles, who have a large following, both playing public pianos, I think mostly in...

Excedrin headache #537!

Is there any chance you could get it out to Oregon for a short trial period? I wouldn't mind adding a scratch or two (just short, very superficial ones, I promise!) from our predominant basalt rock formations just to add to the character of the hull. I'll even offer to pay for one or two of the...

Larry, I'm not seeing what I'd refer to as the equivalent of actual runs in old nylons, which would be missing yarns or what's known as "picks" in fiberglass-ese. What you show is where the cloth has been snagged and distorted by rough handling somewhere in either manufacture or pulling the...

Jim , that pink floored canoe is pretty at least. You need an energizer bunny on the bow deck, or maybe a pink panther? <G > Rig a small bowsprit and fasten the pink doll underneath it! That foam is polystyrene and has poor shear strength, likely your problem. It probably failed at the foam...

Is the stripper for the out-of-state kids and you're keeping composite for yourself? You mentioned in the thread this was excerpted from that you're in Iowa and the kids are in Minnesota. That doesn't mean that adults won't be in either boat at times, so I'd build somewhat for that, maybe just...

Memaquay, Yes the process is quick, but it takes a lot of expensive equipment to do the forming that has to be paid off, a different mold for each model of boat, plus those big sheets they heat up and vacuum form are custom made for each model of canoe so are likely fairly expensive. When Old...

Thanks for the vids, Glenn. I didn't think to look for any. Upside down seems to work well. Would sure make it easier to get the hydraulics supported for the end pushes. The hot ABS sheet supported by the table gets rid of the gravity problem for the upside down orientation of the mold.

I never saw it done, but that was the way it was explained to me by a Blue Hole canoe worker sometime in the early to mid '80s. Their early "Warsaw Rocket" hulls were pounded out by Uniroyal's plant, but I understood (perhaps incorrectly?) that they molded their own later on. The worker I got...

Recped, the extra layers are not visible on the outside because, like composite hulls, Royalex and Royalite were molded in a female mold. That didn't allow extra thickness to show on the outside, just the inside of the hull. The way Royelex hulls were formed was the female mold was placed on...

Another Canadienne, but not by Old Town. This was built by the guy who designed it, and OT later purchased licenses to build the boat from him. Actually, I built it as I worked for the guy at the time. It didn't have the gelcoat problems the original poster did, but did have some damage (caused...

I'm west coast and I've had no involvement in this, but I've read in the past of nude paddling events in New Jersey (common in the Pine Barrens?) done by a club or clubs in that area as taking place years ago. They were not races, just day trips, don't remember any mentions of overnighters, but...