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I just had to buy a set of whoopies this weekend...always a day late!

Don't have any recent data, but I've drunk a lot of beers that were like making love in a canoe.

Why on earth would I keep track of the ownership of a company I didn't know existed a week ago?

Thank you all - I hate to say it was something of a disappointment, all around. Chick hill was a lovely hike - easy, with the reward of a great view, and on a perfectly beautiful summer's day, thank you @bark-eater . Shaw and Tenney had no time for me. A man met me in a hurry, told me they...

Thanks folks. Shame about the Oronoka. Chick Hill is exactly the nice easy day hike I'd like, where I won't have to commit all day to it, but still get a look around and a chance to stretch the legs. I'll check out the museums, maybe buy a paddle I don't need...it's a vacation!

Most of the times I've 'helped' people who were making a cock of it, the advice wasn't very welcome. Dads are tetchy about getting shown up in front of their kids. A quiet word to a ranger, or park employee, is generally where I compromise, seeing things like that. ("You may want to keep an eye...

I'm bopping around mid-coast Maine, and plan to head up to Orono/Old Town/Bangor area for a day or two. Hotels are so expensive that I just bought a hammock setup and sleep where I can, so I'll head to a state campground outside Orono tonight. Besides Shaw and Tenney, Old Town canoes, and...

Welcome from Virginia.

I bumped through plenty of day trips with plastic paddles and royalex boats when I was a kid, but I didn't really start learning how to control a canoe until I started learning about birchbark canoes and trying to mimic those in skin-on-frames. I stumbled in to a freestyle symposium at Paul...

Yes, invest in a thin-kerf blade. Also a featherboard.

I will admit that I tried a double blade this summer. It squelched through the water with exactly the same cringing, lushing slurps as a large dog licking his privates in the middle of the night. The boat became capable of two settings: going forward in a straight line; or sitting still. A...

FarOut app is the go-to, I think. It does cost money, I hope someone chimes in with something open-source and/or free. You can download what you need and use your phone in airplane mode. https://faroutguides.com/

Yuuuuuuuuup. I did the math once and it would be cheaper to move to Maine for a summer and knock around with found materials than it would be to pay for a 1-on-1 class. (That was pre-pandemic math, though, so who knows these days.)

Building a bark canoe has been a dream of mine for a long time, so I'd better go ahead and start planning on doing it. Does anyone know the name or number of a birch bark builder who teaches one-on-one, or even in small groups? I'm in Virginia, so just going out and knocking around with birch...

Virginia in July/August is gonna be very hot and humid if you're used to Maine summers. The Upper James is a good sixty-mile run, but it is not remote. The river parallels train tracks and roads for most of it, and some camping spots are frequented by car campers fishing. In July it'd be pretty...

This is always a great time. I got to go in 2015 when I was living in Maine, and I've always wanted to go again. 'Shcraft on!

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Geese have no sense of humor. I passed by a bunch the other day and said, "good afternoon, gentlemen"; then, because there were certainly ladies in the group as well, I followed with "I beg your pardon, I didn't mean to mis-gander you". Not one of them laughed.