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Welcome to the campfire RedSquirrel. Looking forward to your stories. Jim

It was her husbands, he ran off with his assistant and asked her to sell his things and send the money. Just kidding, I don’t know what happened. Jim

Don’t let me stand in the way of people learning things, in fact I’ve learned quite a lot on this wonderful forum. Jim You are doing a fine job too.

I do but he is in no shape to be buying canoe stuff even for me. Wait maybe this is his boat and gear, I better check on him. Jim

I just remembered a friend of mine uses a service called ‘PirateShip’ to get a discount on shipping no matter which carrier you use. I did not know about it at the time I shipped the paddle , but I might be trying the service in the near future. Jim

Two years ago I sent a straight wooden (sassafras) paddle to Idaho and it was around $70 through UPS. I just thought UPS would be better than USPS but maybe that was a mistake now looking at these prices upthread. Jim

Nice job on the repair. Do you have all the guideboat hardware for the oars? The oars are not guideboat oars but if you have the rest of the oar lock set (4 sockets and 2 oar brackets for lack of a better term) that hardware alone is worth about $500 last I checked. That and proper oars if you...

That it is. Jim

Well I just had a good laugh at myself. When I saw that pic of your paddles I thought to myself I’ve got one just like that on the far right, a big Old Town with the label. Up thread I said I’d take a new pic ‘cause I couldn’t find my old group pic of my paddles and lo and behold I don’t have...

Looks like a beautiful day. Jim

I’ll need take another pic of my paddles to share. Jim

Thanks Rusty, I know what that feels like. Jim

Me too. Jim

Thanks for sharing that Robin. I’m not heading to Canada this year but hear others are. Jim

Welcome to the campfire Dutch. I look forward to more of your beautiful photos. Jim

Welcome to the campfire nrivers. When check back on this thread throw another log on the fire and tell up how you are getting along. Jim

Welcome to the campfire 802. Jim

That’s exactly what I did Alan. I bought one for me and after she tried it there was no going back to the kayak. Jim

Same here, sold the kayak last year. Jim

Thanks for all you do both Glenn and Alan. Jim