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You may pee in your canoeing shorts or in the river but NEVER, EVER in your DRYSUIT! Not from personal experience.:rolleyes:

I try to do at least one "Big Trip" per year and it is not always with a canoe. This year it was a cross-country motorcycle trip from South Carolina to California and the Sierras, up to Oregon, around to Utah and Colorado, and then back to the East Coast. Last year it was hiking the Tour du...

Wow. I think I will continue to keep my center of gravity a bit lower to the water though.

Congratulations on the new canoe! I think you made a great choice for your criteria. I was out in my Phoenix today puttering around and working on refining paddle strokes in a local pond. We are about the same weight, and I have paddled it with and without a camping load and had no problems...

A good way to spend a Saturday! You should have some fine paddles out of that batch. I have never worked with Catalpa wood. Does it work easily?

Memaquay, Thanks for saving and posting the map and it's information. I hope that a library or museum can use or store it for the future. As we plunge headlong into the digital age, so much of the past is being lost due to the trending belief that "if it isn't on the internet, it can't be...

And especially in a Fire Tower! Thanks for posting. I now have the cookbook saved in my bookmarks for future use.

I had read that Pygmy Boatworks closed up shop during Covid and never reopened. I just checked their website (FACEBOOK) and the last posting was on June 30, 2020. Looks like another boat maker gone. Dang, I always wanted one of those Wineglass Wherries!

Thanks Martin65 for posting the video. That looks like an interesting construction concept that shows a lot of planning and engineering skill. I wonder what thickness the plywood is? It is also a very nice looking canoe and looks like it should handle well.

There is something primal about a campfire that reaches to the soul and spirit of a person. Perhaps it touches the "genetic memory" that we carry, since it has only been less than last century and a half that staying warm, cooking and seeing at night has been accomplished by means other than...

Maybe you could deploy the sock behind you and use it to slow you down; think of it as compression braking for a canoe with an over-enthusiastic paddler. This idea might also be good as a training aid for an additional workout leading up to marathon season. :rolleyes:

The factory kneeling drops are well set for me, but I am over 6' and have 35" inseams. My biggest issue is getting my size 12 shoes under the seat! I had to learn the proper technique, so it is easy now. I can also sit quite comfortably with the factory kneeling drops but I do not think that...

I started this thread after a cross country trip across the southern tier of the United States, South Carolina to California, and now have just returned from a two week trip to Maine. I can say that I noticed a higher percentage of cars with canoes in the north-east than on the trip out west...

I sometimes use a wood straight shaft, sometimes a carbon bent shaft and often a carbon DOUBLE-BENT shaft. Now that should muddy the waters!

Look back and remember. Look around and learn. Look forward and hope. Here's wishing you many great travels with the new trailer on an unexplored path of life. The possibilities are endless.

That is an interesting tool. A combination hook, spatula and bent shaft paddle! This is the type Hookaroon that I am used to seeing. It is a handy tool when working with downed logs.

With a background in furniture design and engineering, I have always loved woodworking and things made of wood. I had wondered about the possibility of a veneer lay-up (i.e.. plywood) canoe for a while before finding out that they had actually been made. According to my info, the the technique...

I posted this on the WCHA website earlier this week, but thought that I would post it here too. I am interested in the background of these veneer constructed canoes, so if anyone has any knowledge about them or the Allied Aviation Corporation. I picked up an interesting old canoe last week...

Such a beautiful SRT; I'm sorry for your loss. At least you are still around to replace the canoe! I have been pinned a few times in decked boats (C1 and kayaks, somehow I've managed to avoid that in open canoes so far) and fortunately never fully wrapped a boat, but reflections on the...

Good on ya, Taylor! Getting out from behind your desk and actually meeting with the people that elected you to represent them and learning of their problems first hand is something that US politicians should do but rarely seem to. I wonder how many of our belt-way bound politicos could even...