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I was limited in choice because most of my boats need at least some repairs. It came down to my beat up old MR Guide for which I have a full spray deck (made by the guy who made them for Trailhead for all their organized arctic tripping groups in the 70's/80's) or the Mohawk XL14 that I have...

Unfortunately my partner (not coming on this trip) has some health issues. I don't feel it's a good idea to wander off to the wilderness so I am postponing this trip. I will try again possibly in August or if not maybe 2025. At this time I do not know how serious the situation is but when her...

The update messages will only appear on Mapshare, it's possible to also send them to faceplant or Elon's abomination but I don't do either. If you want them to show up on your own website you can use a widget to embed the twits or book messages on it. Although I've had a a twitter account for...

I am heading out soon (about 24 hours) for my Summer solo trip, expecting to be on the water for about 3 weeks. As you may know I have a preference for river trips where the current does some of the work and the excitement level is greater than it is for flat water trips. That said, in recent...

Crossing the border during Covid was not warm and fuzzy no matter which direction you were going. ALL the border restrictions due to Covid went away on October 1 2022. The only remaining thing is that you would need a passport because it's a requirement of CPB to return to the US. When crossing...

Have you considered crossing the border and looking at an area like Wabakimi or the surrounding area. Wabakimi requires permits but no restrictions on where you camp. The surrounding land is essentially crown land, non-residents do require a permit but otherwise you can go just about anywhere at...

I don't have one, I have never paddled one. I only found the specs for the Prodigy X, not sure if that's what you are looking at but if not I expect the non-X would not be much different. From the specs it look like it would be great for you intended use, it's a Bob Foote / David Yost...

Did you know that Canada has 4 times that number of lakes? Another interesting fact, only 52% of US lakes are "natural". Lake Erie has a lot of positives for the listed activities, not so much for paddling, I'm "old" and can't forget Love Canal, algae bloom and all the pollutants being dumped...

I have no memory of it but I have a picture of my parents and siblings unloading our canoe, it's marked July 1954, I'm not in the picture nor is my sister who probably took the photo. For sure I, at 1 - 4 weeks old was in a basket and no doubt was taken for a ride. The first one I can remember...

There are quite a few canoes on eBay as well, I got a nice deal on a Mohawk XL14 a couple of years ago. If you are after a specific model you can set up a search with notifications. I did that for the XL14, took a few months for one to show up.

I have an old pre-Garmin InReach, during the day it is always in my pfd pocket and in tracking mode. When I'm camped it's usually readily at hand and if I wander away from camp it comes with me. The scenario that scares me the most when tripping is not on the water but rather when "exploring"...

I wondered the same thing, one can't tell from a picture if a river is "polluted" but the pictures I saw from further upstream did not have all that trash. Headwaters at Citarum Lake, 270km from the mouth of the river. According to Wikipedia there are about 5 Million people who live along the...

I do a lot of research on route specifics and logistics, not so much about the area history. I'm currently planning a trip for July, because of the nature of the location I'm spending more time on history than usual and less on route planning. The logistics are also very simple since unlike...

A ton of charts and tables in the full 80+ page report. I'll probably never wade through the entire thing but I did not see any information on the numbers of participants in boating and how the ratio of participants to accidents is factored in. If participants went up with the Covid bump and...

They have a place on a w/c canoe, for composite or plastic boats.....no thanks!

I just wanted to ensure that you were aware of the rules on transporting firearms into Canada.

Are you declaring or smuggling? https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/import/iefw-iefa-eng.html

Everything that is old is new again! Back in the days of Royalex every order for raw sheets was done to the buyers specifications which primarily meant a variation in the thickness of the layers over the area of a full sheet. On my old (1990) MR Explorer one could actually see the increased...

One can never be sure from photos but it looks like it has been stored outdoors for a very long time, stored upside down with one side up against a wall somewhat protected from UV rot. I think the gel coat is now so fragile that anytime you bump into something it could crack with more pieces...

Use a piece of peel ply that is significantly bigger than the area of the epoxy, the "creasing" (if any) is much less likely to extend into the area your are compressing. Definitely get a roller like this: https://www.temu.com/goods.html?_bg_fs=1&goods_id=601099516300818&sku_id=17592213384724