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Hi Jenn & welcome. This loop is definitely on my "do that again" list and I'll try to keep you & your dad in mind when I do. Robin, if you want to do the loop again, say when (not to sound like a sissy but... preferably August or later when the bugs are dying). I'll sherpa; you just walk &...

Hi Cole & welcome. I don't kneel unless in whitewater and then I'm upright w/o weight on my ankles but it seems that, if both straps were adjustable, loosening one & tightening the other would allow the paddler to heel to either side or sit centered. I'm curious what SlackSeat 2.0 will look...

Mixed results on tapering the herringbone strips. I started at the stems & allowed the strip to run off the side when flexed as much as possible without starting to distort. I marked a pencil line on the back of the strip and tapered it a little long figuring that it would become more flexible...

Thanks Jim, That would certainly work and I'll look into that before I cut the waterline today. The material isn't anything unusual this time. White Pine so probably the most common wood that I've tried.

Plus one on the food drop idea. Whatever hotel you'll be staying at would probably be able to store a food shipment from home but you might check with the Whitehorse Post Office also. Long distance backpackers often send supplies ahead and do resupply via the Postal Service. If you send it...

Welcome WG, I like the DIY approach and your solution seems well thought out. I can see Tryin's point about durability but, if your gunwales are consistent widths the whole way (sounds like they are), simply taking extra clips might suffice. With a couple of months until launch, it seems...

I usually start at one stem, cutting the short side & working my way around the hull (Bow overlaps on one side, stern overlaps on the other and then direction switches for the next strip up). It's worked really well in the past. After removing the 4 strips, I tried starting in the center and...

Valid suggestion and one I hadn't thought of... we now have option #4. I'm wondering which is easier: reworking strips to 1/2 inch widths (probably need enough of them to get past the stems, right?) or trying option #3.

Well, I'm certainly not sanding anything tomorrow. In fact, I'm probably back to square one tomorrow morning (unless someone here can pull a rabbit out of the hat) I was making good progress and was about 1/2 done with stripping but the strips were starting to oil can between the forms...

Your local hardware probably sells rolls of emory cloth for cleaning copper pipe (around 150-180 grit) which would work perfectly for your application.

Oh, please... let's not drift the thread to shop cleanliness! I live by "a place for everything and everything all over the place".

Looks like a cool encounter but I don't think this website supports video directly. You have to post it to a secondary site (like YouTube) and then embed the link. [Edit by Admin: Gamma is correct on both counts.] edit: nice! I didn't realize (but probably should have) that FB / Instagram...

I'm now radioactive (they actually gave me a wallet card & warned me that airports & tunnels could detect me... What the Hell did I swallow?!) and, as I need to avoid people for 4-5 days (I know, tragic, right?), I wandered over to the boat shop. First order of business was to fix the errant...

Most of us tend to be our own toughest critic (not always a bad thing) and all you'll hear when done is how amazing it is. Like most things, we get better as we learn and my 2nd looks better (and was much easier to build) than my 1st. I am still trying to figure out how to make an entire hull...

This was the far more common reaction:

I've only seen them on one trip (5 of them on the Marshall Lake loop) and all but one headed for the bush ASAP. The exception was my closest encounter: The Kap river, at that point was probably 40-50 meters wide and she was grazing along river right. When she spotted me, she started staring...

Looking great! I didn't bother filling the cracks on my first and they didn't hurt anything (IMO). About the only time anyone sees them is when it's upside down on a portage, although, at the end of the Steel River trip, I did have one guy shout in surprise "you can see right through it!" so I...

Welcome. I agree that you can hardly go wrong at that price. I also agree that paddles are pretty easy to DIY but be careful. Next you'll be building boats & sewing up shelters and portage packs. All great ways to save coin but it gets addictive.

In order to prevent thread drift I'll start a new thread but I'm curious about your approach to whitewater. In the Shoutout your local builder thread, Robin posted a pic where the paddlers seemed to be taking a conservative line. This led to the comment that: Now, IMO, that's the smart play...

Very enjoyable video but please, @kahel, don't wait until a "later life" or it will, possibly, never happen. IME the biggest regrets in life are the things I didn't do and a Canadian wilderness paddle is worth it even as a once-in-a-lifetime experience. (I've also seen some pretty cool and...