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I saw a bunch when a buddy and I paddled the Allagash, but never very close - maybe 80-90 yards mostly. Same buddy and I saw one in Idaho fishing two years ago. I also saw a just-happened collision in New Hampshire, driving through this summer; an f-150 had hit a cow. It looked like something...

I have no dog in this fight. I'm not even sure why it's contentious. Canoes are cool. Kayaks are cool. Building them and paddling them is a chance to learn and do and have fun. Reading up on how and why different forms of boats developed is fun. One thing kayaks have done for me recently is made...

I think it'd be the perfect candidate for an experimental take-down beavertail. https://www.canoetripping.net/threads/howzabouta-takedown-canoe-paddle.128727/#post-154625

Two great ones recently: Floating Coast, by Bathsheba Demuth - a more-or-less recent economic/ecological history of the Bering Strait As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh, the edited journals of Susan Sontag

I've built 13. Still have 8 of those.

I'll kill for that much sassafrass. I got ahold of a few chunks of it, but nothing that wide. I'm glad that stuff got into the right hands!

It'll either be a check or cash coming to you. I got rid of Paypal, too easy to spend money and regret it.

I'm in. Busy, but in.

Inuit ulus and harpoons were often made of slate. Of course chert, flint, obsidian, etc were used where they were available or could be traded, the Clovis caches indicate that continent-wide trade networks were in place long before there were white people to record them. I've seen sharpened bone...

I'm very curious about the "firestick". I used to be obsessed with bow drill and hand drill fires; in all my research and experimentation with those, I never saw anything like that, apart from a phillipine/southeast asian method involving bamboo.

This is why I stick to white tails! Not a lot to carry out. Heck of a way to get out for a weekend. Thanks for sharing. I'm a huge fan of the Agawa saws. Did your friend give you several blade styles to try out?

If you were my size, all this'd be gone. GLWS.

I've had a life-long aversion to suits, office jobs, and cocktail parties for exactly this reason!

I am a true believer in SOFs, and I will preach them to whoever will listen. I can buy a 40-pound canoe for $2500, or I can build one over a pair of sawhorses for $500, that will perform 80%-90% as well as the CAD-designed factory boat. I can also control the specs of one I build. (Although the...

Two of mine ready for a paddle-and-hike during the pandemic. We paddled 20 miles down the James River to an outfitter near the AT, ditched the boats, and backpacked the 50 miles or so back to my house.

I smoked until I couldn't smoke, dipped until I couldn't dip, and still miss Copenhagen when I get agitated. But I'm years clear of anything more addictive than cinnamon toothpicks. I remember doing a 300-or-so mile stretch of the AT and having to get off every few days, pay for a shuttle, get...

John, the link for the ferrule is highlighted in blue on the last sentence of my post. I have built a whole mess of SOF canoes and would be happy to get you started or to share what I've learned. Next time I get my kayak on the water I'll snap you a picture. The paddle was made by Norwegian Wood...

Ok - first, don't kill me, but I built a greenland kayak last week and it is A LOT of fun. Got out in the wind and waves and swell and just sat there, snug as a duck. Started to learn to roll; it's early days but I see the light. Point being, I got a really nice 2-piece greenland paddle with...

Thank you all! This is a great community, where I can get so many great responses in such a short time. We got things figured out (I think) when someone relatively local phoned a friend with a sawmill. -MKH

Hello folks, Please don't judge me but I'm participating in a traditional kayak build the few days prior to Delmarva Paddler's Retreat, near Rehoboth, Delaware. We've gotten a bunch of green white oak for rib stock, but unfortunately it was of such poor quality that we're a bit worried that...