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Jimmy Stewart in How the West Was Won.

Montgomery County, MD, is the land of stop lights and speed cameras.

Me: Are you sure I was driving the Subaru when we got the ticket? Wife: Yeah.

Another scarfing jig. https://www.canoetripping.net/threads/yaer-yet-another-explorer-rebuild.127182/post-130825

After I bought and returned a Tilley, I purchased a Shelta and now, six years later, Shelta is still my hat of choice for canoeing. Looks like a bucket hat except the front of the brim is shaped and stiff like a baseball cap, a feature I very much appreciate when I am paddling into a headwind...

Dan & Whits! I haven't heard those names in a long time! What a great, great store! I got my Sorel winter boots there in 1984. They haven't held up that well. I had to replace the boot laces about 8 years ago. ;-)

I'll bet that visit worked better than coffee, prune juice and ex-lax.

A friend with a small fleet of boats says he only buys used boats and only of one color. That way when he brings another one home it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb.

A lot of low odor mineral spirits don't mix well with finishes. I had some completely gum up Epifanes. My recommendations is to sand it down until it isn't sticky and apply tung oil not thinned. It really is not necessary to thin tung oil notwithstanding what instructions say, especially if...

Placing the stern seat as far back as possible would seem to accomplish a number of desirable goals. First, it maximizes the amount of stuff you can carry in the wide part of the canoe. Second, correction strokes are more efficient towards the stern. Third, it permits steering by extending...

I've heard several stories about snakes "falling" out of trees into canoes. It seems odd to me. I have a hard time imagining snakes are hitching rides in canoes on purpose. And I have an equally hard time believing snakes are clumsy and prone to falling out of trees. And even if they were...

I was surprised how effective that seemed to be.

This is horrifying! (Not the snake bite; I'm referring to the fact that this was a kayak trip.)

And now you have to edit this^ message, too. :ROFLMAO:

I've never seen any venomous snakes in the wild. I've seen plenty of northern water snakes in and around the rivers in the mid-Atlantic, and once when on Big Island in the middle of Lobster Lake, we happened upon a bunch of just-hatched garter snakes or ribbon snakes. And then there was this...

The idea of rolling around in the bilge water doesn't seem all that great to me. Maybe wait until you are on shore?

Very nice. Love Lobster Lake!

I never met Barry in person but we exchanged a number of PMs. A very generous guy sharing of his knowledge and love of canoes and canoeing. Will definitely miss his presence on the board.

Don't know about that piece of walnut but walnut can make a striking deck. Here's one I made. Bit of tutorial here. They were inset. https://www.canoetripping.net/threads/yaer-yet-another-explorer-rebuild.127182/

I have done new decks and gunnels from scratch on a couple of boats, but I've never seen a Colden in person, That said, from the photos you posted of the Wild Fire and Flash Fire, I feel confident the decks must have been epoxied in place because (1) it would be too much of a PITA to drill and...