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Starting the New Year off in good fashion by getting out the first 3 days. Studying radar each day we were able to find breaks in the rain. We are headed up river to enter the 7 Creeks swamp.

This was an interesting read of a multiday down river camping trip on the Brazos. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0049P1LXW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_o02?ie=UTF8&psc=1&fpw=alm

I've been quite pleased with the stainless adjustable webbing slider. Slightly lighter than 2 Drings, it performs admirably. Very easy to tighten, very easy to disengage, holds firmly when carrying. My demands on this piece of hardware have been light. The canoe is 42 pounds and perhaps my...

Hoback River, Montana...............Photo by Bob Kimmel Thomas George McCloud Frederick Maryland - On Saturday October 3, 2020 , Thomas G. McCloud passed away suddenly at the age of 76. Tom will be fondly remembered by family...

In remembrance of Tom McCloud, photos by Bob Kimmel. With my many absences from home to paddle whitewater, domestic tranquility concerns kept me from joining Tom on his annual Easter weekend gathering of paddlers on the Upper Potomac. While I missed paddling the Smoke Hole with Tom, much...

............................I’d much rather have that debris scraped off before I climb into the tent. But especially sand. Sand in the tent is insidious. Sand inevitably gets inside the sleepy bag. Sleep gritty my friend.".................... The last 15 years or so a lot of my camping has...

The spare Norse I gave you was the light weight version of what I was using. The Norse I used that day had a larger diameter shaft and a larger blade face. You could really lay out on a brace/ draw if you needed to. With the aluminum tip you could sit/ pole in the shallows. But it is a...

The evolution of this thread has me feeling better about my shop mishaps. So far I haven't had any blood involved in my mistakes. That may be due to my preference to limit the use of power tools, but there are times when that is what you need use. When power tools are added to the project I...

Mike McCea has advanced beyond what is depicted in their video. What they are displaying is almost exactly how this all started. I happened to have the great good fortune to bear witness to Mr. McCrea's first field trial of the V-1 Fire-in-a-Can at a State Park barrier island that prohibited...

That does poetically capture the elegant simplicity, yet completeness, of a paper map. Many a spring trekking adventure would initially take place the previous winter, the map spread out on the dining room table while cold, snow, and ice would be outside the dining room window.

Ed's canoe heavy duty seat is quite stout. I'm a big guy as well, 6'1", 240 so I've opted for heavy duty when I replace my seats. Been very pleased with Ed's heavy duty seat.

My friend was understanding of the outcome and put a positive spin to the mishap. I offered to tape off the canoe and paint the ellipse black to match the skid plates. He responded to leave it as is, the repair could be the beginning of a conversation concerning the many repairs the canoe has...

Hunkered down under shelter waiting for Hurricane Isaias to roll over us this evening. Over the past several years about 95% of my canoe repair work has been putting on dynel skid plates using carbon powder infused epoxy. Black skid plates are the result. This past week I was helping a friend...

For most of my repair work on Royalex boats I've cleaned up sanded areas with isopropyl alcohol and never had hull damage. Maybe give that a try

Water Canyon on the Green River, Utah

Killer Angels by Shaara. Covers the Civil War battle of Gettysburg. What is fictionalized is the conversations between combatants of each side. Troop movements and actions are historically accurate. Book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975. The narrative flows very well with the fictionalized...

I've never used this technique but I like the elegant simplicity of it. I'm curious about several things. For a symmetrical hull wouldn't that puddle be centered at the carry yoke? If not, is there a lot of variability amongst canoes where the COB is located? If you lived next to body of...

The canoe pictured is a tandem that had the wood center carry yoke removed and was replaced by the 2 inch webbing. I place the webbing across my shoulders just like the wood yoke would be placed. This works just fine for the short distances I carry the canoe - vehicle to shoreline, vehicle to...

Seat Placement. Although my preference is to sit in my solo seat, I do like to kneel when I'm trying to lower my center of gravity, most usually when conditions get rough. Whatever your weight, you are most likely the heaviest thing in the canoe. I prefer to locate my knees perhaps 1-2 inches...