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If you were my size, all this'd be gone. GLWS.

I've had a life-long aversion to suits, office jobs, and cocktail parties for exactly this reason!

I am a true believer in SOFs, and I will preach them to whoever will listen. I can buy a 40-pound canoe for $2500, or I can build one over a pair of sawhorses for $500, that will perform 80%-90% as well as the CAD-designed factory boat. I can also control the specs of one I build. (Although the...

Two of mine ready for a paddle-and-hike during the pandemic. We paddled 20 miles down the James River to an outfitter near the AT, ditched the boats, and backpacked the 50 miles or so back to my house.

I smoked until I couldn't smoke, dipped until I couldn't dip, and still miss Copenhagen when I get agitated. But I'm years clear of anything more addictive than cinnamon toothpicks. I remember doing a 300-or-so mile stretch of the AT and having to get off every few days, pay for a shuttle, get...

John, the link for the ferrule is highlighted in blue on the last sentence of my post. I have built a whole mess of SOF canoes and would be happy to get you started or to share what I've learned. Next time I get my kayak on the water I'll snap you a picture. The paddle was made by Norwegian Wood...

Ok - first, don't kill me, but I built a greenland kayak last week and it is A LOT of fun. Got out in the wind and waves and swell and just sat there, snug as a duck. Started to learn to roll; it's early days but I see the light. Point being, I got a really nice 2-piece greenland paddle with...

Thank you all! This is a great community, where I can get so many great responses in such a short time. We got things figured out (I think) when someone relatively local phoned a friend with a sawmill. -MKH

Hello folks, Please don't judge me but I'm participating in a traditional kayak build the few days prior to Delmarva Paddler's Retreat, near Rehoboth, Delaware. We've gotten a bunch of green white oak for rib stock, but unfortunately it was of such poor quality that we're a bit worried that...

Water, coffee, tea. I may switch to instant coffee if and when the Apocalypse, an EMP, catastrophic hyperinflation event, etc. happens, but until then I bring coffee, sometimes a grinder, filters, and drip cone. I use Nuun tablets for both electrolytes and a change of taste from filtered water...

I'm still looking at a decade of good canoe years, but I do regret not getting on yoga and sticking with it during my 30s and 40s. It does absolute wonders for flexibility, stamina, and attitude.

Absolutely uninterested in the box pot, but very interested in the titanium moka pot they sell. I'll try as many ways of making camp coffee as I can find. Seems to be manufactured by TOAKS, who I like, but I can't find it outside of the firebox website.

These guys are great. I went in there one day this summer and bought a paddle, and ended up talking to the guys working for something like an hour. Two weeks later, I got stuck between a no-water Saranac River and the wildfire smoke billowing down from Canada. Pulled my boat from Union Falls dam...

The first canoe I owned was the first canoe I built, somewhere in my mid 30s. It was a terrible canoe. I sawed it in thirds after I built a better one.

I think some good options have already been posted, so I have nothing to add but - good on you for getting out there and figuring it out! Have fun, be safe.

I say, "hey man. Want some taffy?"

I like the Pocketboy a lot. It's a better saw than the Bahco laplander, but it's mostly an academic difference; I used the same Bahco for close to ten years and it never did me wrong, nor did it fail to saw through what I needed it to. The Silky just does things a bit, well, silkier. I have...

Their cotton anoraks are certainly not rainproof. This was a Vardag Hydratic, designed for rain, I should have made that clear! -MKH I like to wax the bottom half of my Keb pants. Keeps them from picking up so much mud and dirt, and I have a pet theory that it lets me wade up to my knees and...

You can send yours to me. I use them constantly for reading. They fit in a hammock peak net, they hang from a gear net in a tent, they stick on canoe bows in quiet low-tide ocean sounds, they hang in AT shelters. I did hurricane relief in the Virgin Islands once and they were a godsend down...

It's a basic point of astronomy. Redshift dictates that objects that appear red are moving away from us at very high speeds.