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Most all of us will need to own light weight canoes if we are to keep paddling as we get increasingly older. Lifting and loading a canoe on your vehicle is the first order of business for a paddling trip. So accept that a light weight canoe is in your future. After looking unsuccessfully for...

Wonderful that the boat will have new adventures! Do you have a revolving fund where the proceeds will go for your next hull?

The "oar lock" they use is called a forcale. While in Venice we took a morning and visited the shop where the craftsmen carved these beautiful pieces of wood. If you visit the gallery you'll see quite a few variations of the forcale. https://www.forcole.com/eng-catalogue.html

Welcome back, hope your recovery leads to a paddle trip.

In preparing for a trip recently, I charged my 2 Lucis, collpased them and packed them away. When called to duty some weeks later (not quite sure the time span) they both were drained. I learned from that to charge them closer to needing their use.

Pretty sure Tagalong no longer does jet boat shuttles from the confluence of the Green and Colorado so Tex may be the only shuttle option at the confluence. Another suggestion for you is the Potomac river in Maryland from below Cumberland to Hancock. 50 miles from Oldtown to Hancock. Would...

Ooooh to have a shop like that! Complete with safety taping on the floor. Looking forward to seeing this boat come to life.

No that was another Buffalo River event which occurred several days prior to the one Pete mentioned. Here is the tale of the only time I've had a boat of mine pinned. The Buffalo River was running high following two springtime floods. Lots of new wood was on the river. For a week NPS...

Epic day on the river for mishaps. 4 swims with one resulting in the canoe getting stuffed into a strainer. Our group was able to extract the canoe. It took 2 throw bags to accomplish it and one thing I noticed was my rescue partners on the other side of the river each had their throw bags in...

I'm curious. What problem did the canoe have that made you want to paint it? It it does look sharp in white. A quart of water weighs about 2 lbs so you paid a small penalty for dressing it up.

A paddling friend of mine travels in a boxy Chevy van he outfitted for sleeping and traveling. He purchased a used workmans van outfiited with all the steel shelving and drawers a plumber or electrician would have on his work truck. He removed those elements he didn't need and built his RV...

That's an ugly project ahead of you. If you can't lift those repair patches with a chisel I would think it would take an extraordinarily long time to sand it flat. In the past when I've been able to get the edge of an old patch lifted, a vise grip on the patch has pulled much of the loosely...

That section of river was my first introduction to canoeing. It was the tenderloin center of a 50 mile over night trip in canoes, river camping the whole way down. All in the pursuit of the 50 miler canoe merit badge in Scouting. I had no idea how transformative that trip would be become. As...

Well given your specifications Wilson Lake in Kansas should be on your list. About half way across Kansas, ~~15 miles north of I-70. Lucas Park Recreation Area (COE) has both primitive and RV loops on the water. When I visited during the summer, the primitive loop had no occupants. And...

Looks very nice, at that price I can't imagine it will last long.

The magnetically receptive plate came in a package of 8 for $10; 4 rectangular and 4 circular. Might as well make use of these plates. So I pulled out my tandem/solo canoe out and epoxied 2 plates on for use in either tandem or solo set up. The quick release feature of the magnetic plate...

The hard mounted ball on the thwart, despite its look in the photo, does not interfere with lifting and carrying the canoe on my shoulders. However, trusting the epoxy will be successful in holding tight the metal plate in a watery environment, the ball that is machine screwed to the thwart...

Since I've made it a standard practice to bring a GPS unit with me, mounting it on a nearby thwart for non WW cruises makes it far more useful to me. Mounting my devices has been accomplished by using a clamp on system from RAM Mounts. It has worked pretty well but the clamp/device combo is...

Mine hasn't sagged and I've got about 10 years on it. It is not pancake flat like a wood chair, but is fairly level given that it is fabric you are sitting on. Mr. McCrea's eyesight is failing. This chair has 4 legs, not 3. And it is rated to handle a 250 lb guy. My favorite features are...

I've been very happy with this: https://www.camptime.com/collections/chair The 19 inch chair height allows me to sit with my knees bent at a 90 degree angle. This eases getting up; bag chairs seem to have my butt so low I almost need a handhold to get vertical.