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  1. DougK

    Rack Repair, and rant

    when I priced new racks for a Ford Maverick, Yakima thought it was perfectly reasonable to ask $1800 for them. Hahaha no. Still have the round Yakima racks with rain-gutter towers from my 82 Econoline, I found with my current pickup you can mount some c-channel to the camper shell and the...
  2. DougK

    Breaking up Freeze-dried Packages

    biggest problem I think will be making sure the ingredients are evenly split between the two meals.. we are canoeing, there is plenty of water for cleanup. I wouldn't hesitate to do the pot meal. My wife dehydrates meals for us and we prepare them in a pot, the cleanup is not onerous. like...
  3. DougK

    Paddlers' disappearances provides hard lessons

    article was a bit horrifying for me, felt like my brother.. I'm 63, the coffee table in our first apartment was our first canoe, worked both to paddle and for entertaining. Used to run marathons, triathlons, etc. I took a sit-in kayak out in Greece once to look at some dolphins with my kids...
  4. DougK

    Why Morning Paddling is Healthiest

    as with fishing - the best time to go fish/paddle, is whenever you can..
  5. DougK

    Mad River resins

    also interested in what folks do for the spiderwebbing.. on my old Seda Scout kevlar, I tried a light coat of epoxy on a couple of areas. It looks pretty bad despite my best efforts to blend it in..
  6. DougK

    replacing Wenonah adjustable seat

    I have a Wenonah Vagabond, 14'6" and 40lb, which I absolutely love while hating the Wenonah adjustable seat it came with.. the seat rattles and bangs a lot, isn't very comfortable, and doesn't let me kneel as it's too low in front. Has anyone replaced this seat ? It's mounted on steel plates, so...
  7. DougK

    Comparison of S-Glass, E-Glass, Kevlar and Carbon for Canoe Hulls

    Sweet Composites is Davey Hearn, a legend in slalom racing.. bought my kevlar and dynel and peelply from them, good supplier. I have a kevlar boat, SS from Empty Canoes in MT. The builder recommended kevlar patches for interior, s-glass on exterior. The recent slalom races at Wausau WI were...
  8. DougK

    Royalex UV damage

    this would be my concern.. my boats always live either indoors or in the shade, have 25 year old boats that are still tough and resilient. A friend's Caption with Royalex hull stored in the sun, has cracked pretty much every time they hit a rock with it.. it's mostly G-flex and Kevlar patches at...
  9. DougK

    Free Bell Royalex Wildfire/ Yellowstone Solo Hull

    always wanted one of those.. but several days' drive from CO, just can't do it sadly. It's a very generous offer thank you..
  10. DougK

    "Loving Monsters" — a book review and short essay-rant

    I have no bear fears when backpacking in CO, because the bears are hunted here in most places, and fear man. In Yellowstone and Grand Tetons I'm frankly spooked.. those bears see a hundred hikers a day, never been hunted. We're just lucky that so far they havent' figured out that hikers are made...
  11. DougK

    Mad River Canoe - Been Nice to Know You

    that's the N. Platte, in Colorado.. the put-in is in CO, take-out in WY.. We used to do this every June. Then there were low-water years, followed by water so high the river was closed, then there was a big burn and the river is full of strainers from blowdowns.. it might be another year or two.
  12. DougK

    Mad River Canoe - Been Nice to Know You

    can confirm.. my MR Explorer was a shell with rotten gunwales, overgrown by vines, when I picked it up free off Craigslist. After repairing multiple cold cracks and replacing the gunwales, it is a fair 65lb. That's the upper limit of what I am willing to carry anymore. In fact we used this on...
  13. DougK

    Fun with Chat GPT

    that's much better performance than I have seen anywhere else.. typically ChatGPT will just make stuff up and confidently assert falsehoods. On a triathlon forum someone asked it to produce arguments for and against a somewhat technical question. Its response was some bland anodyne boilerplate...
  14. DougK

    What will be the effect of electric vehicles on canoe tripping?

    oh it's a lot worse - the machinery is full of proprietary software, and you're not allowed to repair your own tractor as a result. The push back on this has just started, CO passed a Right to Repair bill this month. The electric pickups seem like a good idea for farming actually - charge every...
  15. DougK

    Invasive fish (northern pike) threatens Maine lakes. Huh?

    great, now there's coffee all over my screen.. ;-) that's the bottom line on introduced/non-native species. The long-established balance of the ecosystem is overwhelmed and descends into chaos, with all kinds of unpredictable effects, most of them undesirable.
  16. DougK

    Wenonah Solitude repair and renovation

    I've used kevlar to repair a much-cracked Royalex hull. At that point it seemed the consensus was kevlar with G-flex epoxy, single patch. Others like 3 layers of 6oz fiberglass instead. To me it seems that would build up quite a lot of epoxy over the patch, so I went with Kevlar Aramid cloth...
  17. DougK

    Wenonah Voyager for Fishing?

    I got a Vagabond for a more efficient flatwater boat than the old 1976 Explorer, still having a bit more stability than the pure flatwater speedsters. So far liking it a lot, haven't had time for a long trip yet but it fishes well..
  18. DougK

    How many pairs of footwear: in canoe vs. on portage vs. in camp?

    Chaco sandals with a neoprene sock for the boat, crocs in camp. I'd like the high-top waterproof boots except I know myself, and would go in over the top multiple times on any trip.. so might as well just start out with the wet feet ;-)
  19. DougK

    Favorite camp chair

    on trips without portages, an ancient aluminum frame chair with nylon webbing, weighs about 2lb. There used to be two of these but a large Boy Scout (200lbs +) bent one frame, I made one good chair by replacing the worn webbing on the other frame.. for trips with portages, the REI-equivalent...
  20. DougK

    What to use for an inside ground sheet (and how to use it)?

    never used or needed an innie until family camping.. the big cheap family tents have floors that aren't waterproof, so an additional layer of blue nylon tarp inside helps. Of course the blue tarps aren't wholly waterproof either, but by the time the water gets through both layers it's time to...
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