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Wood gunnels or vinyl? (on the Royalex boat). If they are vinyl there should be no problem, if they are wood then it is often recommended that the gunnel screws be loosened to prevent "cold cracks" because of the difference in expansion/contraction for each material.

Well I can match 2 of his "luxuries", my chair (Helinox knock off), my extra thick sleeping pad (Thermarest Mondo). For #3 I would say my selection of "housing"....... - a 2 person tent - either a large floor-less tent/shelter or a 4 person high clearance tent I can stand up in), - a bivy...

On my solo boats I like the front of the seat about 6" back from the centre point, for me it means when kneeling my knees are just about at the centre point.

Incredibly bold of you to camp in that location, on my second Seal trip we stopped just little bit further upriver just to take a break before heading for the cabin at the coast. We cautiously walked around a little bit but I was nervous about going back into the tall bushes too far. After maybe...

Not the worst camp I've ever been forced to use but it was in the running. Fortunately the weather was dry even if the ground wasn't. I was paddling towards the north end of the Smallwood Reservoir in Labrador, after a fairly long day of huge open water crossings I was heading to a spot that...

You beat me to it! Here Arthur demonstrates his polling technique utilizing a handy oar, no doubt setting out to find Excalibur.

A different rendering. While this boat has a single blade it it an oar rather than a paddle. Looking at similar images of boats of the period and all seem to be row boats rather than canoes. Of course only the Lady knows for sure!

I'm guessing that Alcide was the father, the current paddles made by his Son, that is the person who could probably fill you in on the history of the boat making period.

I found plenty of links via a Google search. It looks like they may not be operating currently. The last address was in the Shawinigan area and from what I can discern they were only making paddles in recent times (recent = 15 - 20 years ago). They had a website at one time but it's no longer...

Yes this is important stuff! On the rare occasion when I paddle tandem (I'm in the stern), the bow paddler is generally lacking in experience and/or they have always paddled bow and do not have eyes in the back of their head. I find they often start to increase their stroke rate, doing so makes...

The natural colour for Royalex is white(ish), the raw Royalex is then covered by a vinyl skin which can be any colour. Your boat might have had a vinyl layer that was teal, then repainted yellow (or vice versa).

One of the most common causes of what you are describing is simple bad paddling technique, It is however quite easy to fix. You are probably doing a sweep stroke with your paddle looking like this "\" instead of like this "|". Keels on a canoe don't really help and can in fact make the...

I can't really explain why but it takes me 3 - 4 hours to wake up, get up, pack up and get moving. Getting on the water before Noon is a rare event.

Looks like it's limited to the Le Domaine "green zone" only, a pretty small portion of the park.

Thanks Glenn, your reply is what I assumed and after reading your recent post about themes I understood that only the default themes are free of this (minor) issue. I made a brief switch to one of the default themes but I'm back using Chestnut Green as it is the most pleasing to MY eyes.

Similar issue with the Chestnut Green theme. It's always been that way, If some writes "I have posted a video" and they bury the link in the word "video" it's difficult (for me) to see that the word video is actually a link.

@jdeerfoot Curious what your planned route was? I camped at the portage from Harris to Harold in 2017, my first night of a 46 day trip ending at Fort Albany on James Bay. All the ports getting to Savant Lake were pretty overgrown, I did a small amount of clearing but didn't bring my big snips...

I didn't vote because I have zero experience with a Kevlar hull. Pretty much all my Royalex boats have a variety of holes used for gear cages mostly, flotation rarely. A minor bonus with the holes in the hull, sometimes you just need to get to shore and roll the boat over to get rid of a...

I missed it completely!

I'm fairly confident I can see the take out and trail, I am a bit less confident that the little light coloured smear I see up by the larger trees is actually a marker. Flagging tape is variable for my eyes, if it's the classic really bright orange/red I'm ok but some of the low quality...