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Apple devices have a built in feature called Find My which can give the location of any of your devices or people you share locations with. You can lock, erase the device, or place a message on the lock screen remotely. You can also make any device play a sound to help find it around the house...

Looks like fun to me! Considering the cost of getting US made canoes to Europe those are some dedicated paddlers.

Welcome! Look forward to some trip reports from across the pond!

You sometimes are asked to write about something specific but that doesn’t necessarily compromise the writer’s integrity. Was fortunate enough to take Harry Roberts down my local river in Ohio and he asked me to write about it for Paddler magazine. I was flattered and I did it with the affection...

Canoes turn away from the heel given no countering corrective stroke. Extreme banana boats sometimes may be an exception but usually not. Run a hull level and true with no correction then heel to the right and the hull turns left.

Certainly do miss those days…the heyday of solo canoeing. Replete with characters, excitement over something “new” at canoe demo days, the Conclave events, and the construction of the FreeStyle instruction program (the maneuvers themselves had been done for hundreds of years or more). A more in...

Get vinyl tubing from hardware store and cut it into 4 8” sections…split them lengthwise and put them over the gunnels where they sit on the rack….otherwise those rails will be trashed by traveling on metal racks.

Explorer is a legendary do it all hull. Assuming the condition of both is equal I would opt for the Mad River. Had one and it is a very comfortable canoe to paddle….instills confidence. (Plus I just like wood)!

Still wear a Patagonia baggies pullover that’s got to be 25 years old…maybe more? Everglades to Algonquin and beyond. Still think it’s the best material they ever used. Of course it fits considerably tighter now😉

Only downside to this thread is it makes me miss all the canoes I once had 🙁

The “Button Club”….owners of the exquisite work by Tom MacKenzie (R). Left to right: Jim Mandle, Mrs. ? Nicholls, Arweyn Nicholls, Carol Tunnicliffe, Mary Lou Green. Mid 80s I believe. The Button was an 11 foot, 24 pound, DY designed, wood/dacron solo built as only Tom could. Personally love...

Loved my OT Tripper but I was young enough not to realize how heavy it was 😂

There’s always old school two paddles yoke…adds no weight or extra items to carry…. but I have to say I would be pretty upset after paying Swift Canoe prices to run into a problem that quickly. However, if they do say not to transport it engaged, I guess that sort of lets them off the hook.

At 18 we all might have bounced back up and kicked that scaffold….not so much these days! Be well.🤕

Check out the Red Green Show, season 1, episode 1. About half way through. Find it on the free streaming app Plex.

Fortune favors the brave. Paddle it and love it. You’ll make new acquaintances at every put in/take out ☺️ Perhaps you should name it Spliff.

Perfect boat for tree dodging!

Beautiful work!

Not a sponson per se…a way to attach a moveable seat and thwarts without interruption of gunnels. Also has contoured end tanks of the same material which had a leather grain effect. Beautiful canoe. Miss mine. You could also wedge your knees under them as they are contoured for it, but it is NOT...

Paddled boats for many years with those and never had a problem…but YMMV