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Well, it took me just as long to notice your answer, so.....thanks. I think it's a great idea, and I think I'm going to adopt it for some trips.

LOL, just when I thought the weather was going to get mild, it dropped back to 24f here.

Oh, thanks! I feel better now. ;)

Interesting point about the flotation. The float tanks on my Wildfire didn't stop me from adding bags, but now I wonder how much weight taking those tanks out would save. No, I'm not going to start cutting them out - but if I ever scrape together the money for another custom canoe, it's nice to...

Thanks for this TR, @SilentWilderness . I had about written off the idea of Bowron after covid (among other things) killed some of my big trip plans. But your thread here is relighting that fire. Health permitting, I just might get to it after all.

Ah, now that makes sense! Thanks for the explanation.

It is interesting. But "fast" is bound to be defined differently by different paddlers, if for no other reason than we all have different "motors". For a strong paddler, a longer boat will probably be faster. For a weaker paddler (where I more likely fit in) a shorter boat with less wetted area...

Ah. Another development from the department of redundancy department. ;)

I'm trying to figure out what that is attached to the front thwart. The float bags look really familiar. ;)

@dogbrain , I think that gray seat is an accessory cushion. Looks like it's held on with a couple of web straps. You can see one of them hanging down on the left.

I ran into the same problem searching for "Osprey". How about Wenonah's Fisherman? Two very different boats from the same maker with the exact same name. We could probably have a pretty good thread just about recycled canoe names.

You're probably pretty safe, Mem - unless you show up with a Tesla. ;)

That's a clever solution, @wildgoose . Welcome to the forum.

Yeah, you're not gonna like this, but having different canoes effects your ideal shaft length. And this is why I have similar paddles of more than one length. And the more different canoes one has, the more the paddle collection also tends to grow. It's a little embarrassing. :) Also - I've...

Okay, I found a link to the list in pdf by going to the source here... https://igbconline.org/ My bear resistant container is in the group of "previously accepted but no longer available". I guess that means it's still good, but maybe no? Wording in the pdf is a bit ambiguous.

The link I'm talking about is what they claim leads to the list of accepted containers.

Revisiting this thread, and I note that the link in the story to the new regulation goes to a dead page. Has there been an update?

That's funny, because I sold the Sojourn and kept the Solo 14. The Sojourn is a great flat water solo, but I couldn't justify the storage space after getting the Clipper Solitude. Had I unlimited storage space, I never would have let it go.

Appreciate that. My preference would be the 16'. I stupidly passed on the one that was offered to me a few years ago. Not long after that, I decided my royalex P16 had gotten too heavy. Shoulda been listening to Glenn. I'm smarter now. ;)

There's a couple of ways around that trade off, and they're pretty inexpensive. My helmet covers my ears. I have installed a very generously sized Salamander bill that is held in place with Velcro. A high collared sun shirt or summer weight neck gaiter protects the back of my neck. Some of those...