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I have no memory of it but I have a picture of my parents and siblings unloading our canoe, it's marked July 1954, I'm not in the picture nor is my sister who probably took the photo. For sure I, at 1 - 4 weeks old was in a basket and no doubt was taken for a ride. The first one I can remember...

There are quite a few canoes on eBay as well, I got a nice deal on a Mohawk XL14 a couple of years ago. If you are after a specific model you can set up a search with notifications. I did that for the XL14, took a few months for one to show up.

I have an old pre-Garmin InReach, during the day it is always in my pfd pocket and in tracking mode. When I'm camped it's usually readily at hand and if I wander away from camp it comes with me. The scenario that scares me the most when tripping is not on the water but rather when "exploring"...

I wondered the same thing, one can't tell from a picture if a river is "polluted" but the pictures I saw from further upstream did not have all that trash. Headwaters at Citarum Lake, 270km from the mouth of the river. According to Wikipedia there are about 5 Million people who live along the...

I do a lot of research on route specifics and logistics, not so much about the area history. I'm currently planning a trip for July, because of the nature of the location I'm spending more time on history than usual and less on route planning. The logistics are also very simple since unlike...

A ton of charts and tables in the full 80+ page report. I'll probably never wade through the entire thing but I did not see any information on the numbers of participants in boating and how the ratio of participants to accidents is factored in. If participants went up with the Covid bump and...

They have a place on a w/c canoe, for composite or plastic boats.....no thanks!

I just wanted to ensure that you were aware of the rules on transporting firearms into Canada.

Are you declaring or smuggling? https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/import/iefw-iefa-eng.html

Everything that is old is new again! Back in the days of Royalex every order for raw sheets was done to the buyers specifications which primarily meant a variation in the thickness of the layers over the area of a full sheet. On my old (1990) MR Explorer one could actually see the increased...

One can never be sure from photos but it looks like it has been stored outdoors for a very long time, stored upside down with one side up against a wall somewhat protected from UV rot. I think the gel coat is now so fragile that anytime you bump into something it could crack with more pieces...

Use a piece of peel ply that is significantly bigger than the area of the epoxy, the "creasing" (if any) is much less likely to extend into the area your are compressing. Definitely get a roller like this: https://www.temu.com/goods.html?_bg_fs=1&goods_id=601099516300818&sku_id=17592213384724

You don't need a "kit", just buy the raw materials. Gflex epoxy, Dynel fabric (preferred over Kevlar felt)) and a piece of Release Fabric. I don't know current prices but you can probably get them all in the $50 range. One source: https://sweetcomposites.com/

Peel ply just sticks where you place it, I never have and wouldn't try to reuse it as it will be fairly saturated with epoxy. I use a silicone roller to apply pressure to ensure the dynel (or whatever) gets fully saturated and any air bubbles are removed.

I have always arranged for my cancer surgeries (3 of them) to take place during the off season so that I would have full summers for paddling. On the first one I had to skip a Spring trip in order to finish chemo.

A different configuration doing the shuttle on my recent trip on the Riviere Bazin

My "long spoon", actually several of them including one last week that one of my generous companions had given to me last Spring when I lost my own, I had that one because I had lost the one I brought with me on that trip. That one was a replacement for my original long spoon that I had used for...

Not relevant to me but the Logo 3 is not loading (the others are fine). I only looked to see it matched my Peterborough that was stolen in 1965....probably does but I really can remember what the original looked like. Sadly my parents bought a Lakefield as a replacement (still "sleeping" in my...

My hearing isn't great, in a significant rapid the only way I can accurately hear a bow paddler is if they turn their head around and that makes them almost useless. My tandem running of anything greater than an "easy" C2 is very limited. I do expect the bow paddler to make the fast moves...

When I'm on a solo trip I rarely have a deadline to deal with so I have a fairly low tolerance for wind, If my InReach tells me that I will be facing 20kmph (13mph) or more (headwind) the following day I declare a layover day if I'll be on lakes for most of the day, I will tolerate a bit more...