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that's a neat idea.. I have a fixed cleat on my whitewater boat thwart, used for clipping in a rope while rescuing involuntarily abandoned canoes ;-) but a net saver is another good use for a cleat.. I've done the combat fishing on the Kenai, wading in with a flyrod in between the snagging...

thanks Glenn, good to know he's still going..

Kaz has stopped taking orders for new Millbrook boats sadly.. these days the OC slalom scene is just full of MT Canoes, aka Empty Canoes, from Montana.. as I understand it they are basically the good old hull designs, Ocoee and Caption, made in composite. Here's John of Empty Canoes at the...

actually didn't realize they were still making canoes at all... I'd see lots of the MR Adventure which is a sort of plastic open kayak, scarcely a canoe. Just made me look, the MR website shows a T-Formex Explorer which probably is a fairly decent canoe.. wonder if they will in fact start making...

my first canoe was an 8olb Discovery. After one good portage I used some microcell foam left over from a whitewater saddle, cut and glued a pad about 20" wide across the middle of the yoke, 3/4" thick. This is superior to all the commercial products I've tried on a variety of other canoes. It is...

How did you find or stumble upon Canoe Tripping? looking for rigging ideas.. previously all my canoes had vinyl/alu gunwales so it was simple to pop-rivet or screw in nylon pad eyes or p-clips, for the rigging lines. Now I have two boats with wood gunnels, one yellow Explorer in Royalex and a...

bought an Alps Zephyr 3-man tent from Sierra Trading Post for $80 once, when we needed another tent in a hurry for a Boy Scout backpack trip. I tend to tent-obsessions, researching and testing exhaustively, so it was very strange just to go out and.. buy a tent.. It's become my favorite tent...

it was the least amount of fun I've ever had in a canoe ;-)

I have paddled my Discovery 158 from the front seat like this. The situation (more than once) was out fishing, caught by an unexpected sustained high wind which raised 2ft-plus waves on the reservoir. It was a headwind paddle back to the put-in, against the waves, with occasional gusts slapping...

I've been haunting Craigslist for years looking for a light solo.. here in CO it's worse as canoes are a rarity at best. Used Royalex solos come up occasionally, often at more than original retail. In new boats the best thing I've seen is the Esquif Adirondack, 12', 39lb and $1200. That's too...

an excellent point.. I learned CPR with rescue breathing decades ago. When re-certifying a year or so back was surprised to find CPR is now taught hands-only. However that as you say is for the general public with mostly cardiac conditions. The other aspect to rescue breathing I guess is the...

nearly killed me to learn the J stroke.. took me a couple of years to become barely competent at it. My offside J stroke may still have a small pry component to it when I get tired.. I used to teach a Boy Scout class, usually 3 days. Most kids got the stern pry quickly and could at least get...

I used Ed's knockdowns on a 1978 Explorer 16ft rebuild, three years ago. The canoe has done some class II-III whitewater and several BWCA trips with long portages which I think are fairly stressful for the gunnels. So far so good.. The gunwales are square on the inner edges, rounded on the...