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I'm essentially a backpacker that travels by canoe, but I've been a tarp camper most of my backpacking life. I don't have any experience camping with heavier tarps, canvas and such, but I know a lot about silnylon. The best bang for the buck I've found in the tarp world are Etowah...

Carvin's Cove, outside Roanoke. I haven't been up to Moomaw in ages, I may be due for a trip. -MKH

Got the last seat in. Don't have a good shot of how she sits in the water, but did get her out and was really happy with her the other day.

Someone told me that the era of courting canoes is where we get the term "canoodling" from. I half-way believe it.

@JohnSand I'd love a picture of your lapstrake canoe; always interested to see new styles. I've seen a lot of plank-and-stitch plywood boats, but not a lot of lapstrake-built ones. @memaquay it's an 840d ballistic nylon, available as a kit from the Skin Boat School - link here. A guy named...

^ I've beat the living s$#& out of them. People used to hunt whales and walrus out of boats like that. (Well, bigger ones than mine.) There's no glue in them, apart from the gunwales, so they have enough give and flex to bounce off rocks rather than crash into them. I've done a ten-day...

@memaquay I've built 12- and 13footers in the mid-30s, but those pictured are up in the low 40s, plus probably 2 pounds for seat frame, hardware and webbing. If you get them too light, they don't behave very canoe-ishly. When you look at either buying a 45-pound canoe for $3,000, or building...

Finally got around to making seats and putting them in a few boats this weekend. My favorite boat is up next; thought it was best to work out the kinks before I started messing with her. These are drilled for cane but it was quicker to just run to the hardware store and get webbing (still not...

My favorite old Old Town catalogue front. I would love this on a T-shirt.

Wait, is Royalex not the heavy stuff? I thought all the Royalex boats were up in the 70-80 pound area.

Never a bad thing to bump a thread and remind people to change out and restock their FAKs as necessary, especially as it's a chilly spring and most of us are eager to hit the trails. My big ones are tweezers, eyewash, immodium, allergy meds, ibuprofen (lots of that). I have a decent selection of...

Oh wow, that is one of the first books I ever read. The one that started me was Adney's Skin Boats and Bark Canoes - I realized that by starting to build boats and get around in them, I could in a small way become a part of that history of small craft that drove the population of so many parts...

Thank you guys, I'm always looking for new books. Horrorbabble is a diamond in the rough, speaking as a lover of Lovecraft. Ian Gordon is absolutely terrific. I'm always into several books at a time, these days it's - The Ship Under the Ice - Mensun Bound; story of the recovery of Shackleton's...

I may be in the minority, but I'm optimistic about the quality, availability, and affordability of EVs. (I may also be younger than most on this website.) The industry is essentially a nascent one. It will be a great long while before gas-powered cars are phased out, or even the minority, so any...

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Thanks guys, that's exactly the sort of local information I can't get (or simply don't know to ask for). I'll give it a try, and try to feel my way through it. The biggest part will be slowing down, and remembering it's not a sprint. I have the NFCT maps, guidebook, and will make sure I've got...

Hey folks, I'm new to the forum and, due to a massive influx of poor personal choices and divine castigation, I have it in my mind to go to the great buggy North for a few months and do the NFCT this summer. Generally I lack either the time, the money, or the inclination to do a long trip...

Lems Boulder Boots, a very lightweight moc boot, is the best thing I've found for camp. A NRS neoprene boot kneeling in the boat. If it's cold I'll wear a pair of Sealskinz socks under the neoprene, because I load/unload from a floating boat. The neoprene gets hot, but they've got great traction...

This is the first detailed SOF build I've seen, apart from building a bunch myself, and I'm astounded by how different his process is than mine. (Why have I never thought to set ribs out of order, rather than always work from the center out to the stems?) I love skin-on-frame canoes and...

Thanks for the welcome, fellas, glad to be here. I've lived all over the Shenandoah and the Tidewater, but am now in the Roanoke area. Ucanoe, I'll check out coastals, thanks for the tip. Seems like I'm always a step (stroke?) behind when it comes to things like that. I lived near Lyndhurst...