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You need what is usually referred to as a "4 season" tent. They typically have solid fabric inner tent walls, or at least, half height solid with mesh upper walls.

I have a wood/canvas canoe built as a Jack's Special. I agree that the canoe you're considering appears to be a very nice example. As a novice-intermediate paddler you may have a period of adjustment in becoming accustomed to this design. I love mine, but it's quite tender (read: tippy) and...

I've been meaning to buy one of those for years... though that would mean I had to actually cook my food rather than open an envelope and pour hot water into it! As a kid in Boy Scouts I became pretty adept at cooking in a dutch oven on canoe trips, but then I had younger scouts available to...

CTC, your completed canoe looks lovely. I found it thoroughly enjoyable to have restored a canoe to it's original condition (or, perhaps better than new) and then enjoy it in her natural element. Very gratifying. Well done!

Caulk it if it's leaking. Latex in my opinion. I wouldn't use silicone based caulk anywhere near wood which may be repainted in the future- it impedes the ability of paint to "stick". Caulk will easily come off with the canvas when the time comes. The brass stem band doesn't look original to...

I like this sentiment! I have looked at the pictures of the young crews arriving back at Temagami base after extended trips and I see capable, confident faces of young guys and gals ready to take on the next challenge in life with aplomb.

I posted the canoe because I'm having a hard time NOT buying it! In spite of being a notorious tightwad with my money, I believe this is a good deal. I always wet-foot my canoes; landing, loading/unloading, and launching so I would never abuse the hull. It would last me a long time, then...

Not my listing, but I couldn't help but post it here for the admirers of w/c canoes. Highly respected builder. Perhaps an ideal solo canoe for a smaller paddler. Note the builders' description mentions extended trip use...

I'll dip my toe into this discussion. I own both a mid-century Chestnut Chum and a one-off wood canvas canoe purportedly built by the previous owner as a Jack's Special. The dimensions of a given canoe in specifications and as-built, then used and perhaps stored poorly, can vary significantly...

I tried that hanging Nalgene idea to balance my w/c canoe on a portage.... until a stumble stressed the plastic cap retainer and broke it! Was a functional idea though and can be accomplished by lashing paddles, pfds, etc. in to balance the canoe. I did reverse the orientation of my yoke on...

I like this idea too! I always carry a bandanna for all the above reasons, and fondly recall the many Boy Scout first aid competitions where the triangular bandage was employed for stabilizing arms, ankles, head wounds, etc. Many uses indeed!

Interesting and entertaining trip report as usual. I've read a few Maple Creek stories..... this was a good one!

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I made a pair of scissor stands after seeing yours in an earlier post. With the carpet strips mine function as upright hull supports or, partially closed and inserted under the inverted hull like your first picture, the carpet pads the interior of the canoe as well. Here, I'm washing a...

Sandals and neoprene socks, both wet-footing and portaging.

I can relate. Here's to a speedy recovery! When cycling down a local hill at what I call "terminal velocity"- when I can no longer keep up with the pedals in high gear, about 45 mph, I T-boned a whitetail deer which leapt off the high bank to my right. I hit it broadside in mid-air, the bike...

Many thanks for the enjoyable trip report Goonstroke! Now, if you could please transit the Churchill Lake to Aroostook River via the Steele route; North Twin Brook, Spider Lake, Chase Lake, Munsungan Lake..... so I'll know if it's worthwhile? Just joking. Problem for me is that I can't...

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Because (in my experience) the stern paddler can see the entire canoe in relation to water flow, obstacles, and to set up for the next set of obstacles. The bow paddler is perhaps 9'-10' ( one, maybe two strokes) closer to the obstacle than the stern paddler in a 17' canoe. Not a distinct...

In reply to the original query.... I began my paddling, and formed my habits thereof, on whitewater. The fundamental lesson then was to never paddle on the same side. I was taught as the stern paddler (which I have always been) to call out commands to the bow paddler simply as "right", "left"...