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That's why they also offer the option of 120F water. 140F is what they use on trailers, and on motors themselves or on large heavy motorboat hulls at the owner's discretion. I sat in on a local training session and demo just to see what it was about.

i was told that naturally dry (completely really dry) for two full weeks is necessary.

NYS does have strict rules about mandatory inspection of boats going from one watershed to another. Mainly primarily directed to motorboat craft. Baitwells and trailers tend to collect bits of aquatic vegetation, and it only takes a tiny fragment of some to spread to an entirely new region of...

Amazon offered one of those to me unsolicited a few years ago, long before I heard of Temu. It came packaged directly from China in a few weeks, only cost about $3 at the time. It folds into a very tiny package in its orange cheap plastic container.. I thought it worked pretty good, the piezo...

A few years ago, while racing the Yukon 1000, the area had many fires. We even saw one just as it was created by a lightning strike on a mountain side in the middle of the "night". Shortly after we entered Alaska, we were not far from a pyro-cumulous cloud, where a large fire created its own...

May I ask why you did not like the Shadow? I had wanted one for several years, because on the 90 mile race it wipes all of the previously sold RapidfFire and similar solo canoes. But I was turned off because while I always see Joe winning his race class on the 90 mile canoe race (now with his...

I think you will like the RapidFire veruy much. It is faster and more stable with an easy single blade paddle stroke than you may expect, not quite as light weight (by only a couple of pounds) or as fast (by only a couple of tenths mph) than the less stable narrower PB Shadow and has just...

It is along a paved road through the campground. So a race run by physically carrying a canoe, or with wheels goes fast. Less than half way through Day1 of the 90 miler, while you are relatively fresh with cheering fans along the way as you pass by. Look at the map. it is indeed 0.91 mile. Takes...

Some campers like to dally in camp and move slowly. I know that young first time boy scouts with no canoeing experience (one day intro) would commonly take this route, beginning at 8th Lake as a five day paddle/camping trek Monday pm to Friday AM. So I have no doubt that a reasonably...

I had not heard about the PCBs. At one time there was a leftover large building near the entrance of the gated road by the upper dam that was scheduled to be removed until it was discovered that it was full of asbestos paneling and siding. I remember seeing it on the way to the BSA camp. That...

On paper that is technically correct. i tried breaking the portage to LL like that once. And only once. And I was not even in any 20 hour Cannonball hurry at the time, just on a leisurely week long camping trip to Plattsburgh with a Hornbeck before the NFCT even formally existed. I hated it and...

The pond beyond the beaver dam east of Site #8 are the wood and steel circular structures called cistern wells. Did you notice how clear and pure the water looks in there? A. A. Low was ahead if his time. He sold bottled water from them to cities downstate from "Adirondack Mt’s Virgin Forest...

Bill, not sure exactly what you are after. I believe you are doing a segment along the Cannonball-90 original 90 mile route. I have a spread sheet listing Cannonball distances and times (at selected paddle and carrry speeds) between siignificant points on that route. The beginning of the...

Certainly. Not just a tandem C2, but also a C4 and a six-paddler voyageur canoe. When we paddle the unofficial "Cannonball-90", the entire Adirondack 90-mile route all within a single day, which includes a total of 10 miles of overland single pass carries. The single longest being 3.75 miles...

During our mandatory 6 hour "night" rest stops to camp while on the Yukon River 1000 mile races, we would completely empty our voyageur canoe from all gear and evidence of daytime snacking activity, and pulled it way up on shore, hoping no snooping walk through by any multi hundred pound...

That's my feeling about them too.

Yeti coolers claim to be tested and certified bear resistant, but you have to put bolts or padlocks in the corner hold downs. I used a 120 liter Yeti when I paddled a large voyageur canoe on the first Yukon 1000 mile race, when an excessive amount of food (20kg/paddler x7) was required by the...

Me too. Here is how we made use of an aluminum Grumman on a BSA Adirondack trek I was leading on the Oswegatchie traverse. I don't think I wold have dared let them (or myself) cook on my cedarstrip that I was using on this trip.

The family son, Andy Fox, worked as an Adiondack BSA guide and instructor with me for a few short years, then he went to work making canoes for Placid Boatworks in Lake Placid. I raced in the 90 miler with him a couple of times. After he got tired of breathing the resin fumes at PB, he moved on...