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"The calendar page turned to July 11th, 1925 . . . . It was a hot, sticky, bug-infested afternoon in the Barren Lands, 500km from the nearest settlement. Bullock and Hornby kept pushing in their canoes down the Hanbury River. Exhausted, severely malnourished, they decided to lessen their load."...

Don't worry about thread drift or repeating things we've all said in the past. It's a thread about different ways to turn or otherwise control a canoe, which all involve heeling of one sort or another from one position or another. I'm not a poler, but Steve in his Millbrook Souhegan is...

Aha, attached is a PDF file of the entire 1982 Blue Hole catalog. It lists only five models, three being over 17': the MGA, MGB and 17A. No 17B Wood Duck, with shallower depth than the 17A, listed in 1982. The catalog also clarifies that the MGA had the sliding bow seat, but not the MGB. Also...

That HIN won't decode because it's 11 not 12 characters long. (Did you leave out a character?) However, the "TBH" MIC is Blue Hole and the 81 at the end would mean a 1981 model. The only question is what 17+ foot model it is. I have the 1986 Canoe Magazine buyers guide issue. It lists only two...

Here is a Blue Hole MGA. You can see the forward prow stem.

Not MSB. MGB. In the early 1980s, Blue Hole hired then-famous Tampa canoe designer Mike Galt to design a tandem hull for them. They sold the aluminum trim version as the MGA and the wood trim version as the MGB. The wood trim was frequently ash inwales and mahogany outwales (or vice versa, I...

CanoeDaddy, thanks for taking the time to write that very interesting trip report and for posting it here. Having read every word, I feel no guilt in saying: You clearly made the right decision by pushing the SOS button on your Zoleyeo, as a paronomastic paddler might facetiously write even...

Not to evade specifics, Jay, but any tandem canoe can be paddled solo. You can either sit in the bow seat backwards or install a centralized solo seat or kneeling thwart. You may have to move or remove a thwart that's in the way of your seating position. You could also remove the bow and stern...

Thanks so much for taking the time to post your trip report and pictures here, @samb. It sounds like it was a memorable experience even with the low waters. Only 14 people in the gigantic park! That's amazing as a measure of solitude and wilderness. Somewhat different from the 770,000 people...

I haven't encountered this. It's obviously a huge manufacturing defect. On wonders why the original owner would have accepted such a canoe, or not demanded a new one afterwards, unless offered some huge discount to take or keep it as is.

I clarified my initial post in this thread to focus on paddling from a centralized seat because our resident solo-stern-paddling-a-tandem aficionado, @lowangle al, had already been participating. Al has experimented with and perfected his solo style in his tandem canoes, many wood/canvas and as...

Congrats on finishing the project, Alan. As one who doesn't like or even understand the need for decks, I like the creative "feature". Some questions. What are the dimensions of the canoe? What are the light and dark woods? What kind of paddle is that in the last picture?

I never took lessons at NOC, but I knew a lot of canoeists who did in the 80s and 90s. And my tandem partner taught solo open canoe there for a while in the 90s after he moved from CT to NC. They used to have a mail order catalog operation like NRS, Cascade and Charlie Waldbridge, and I bought...

Starting a report with a midstream preview teaser. Excellent rhetorical device. Hooked me.

BLO is subject to mold and mildew, as @ScottS points out above, which can blacken wood gunwales. Maybe paddles too. The micro-critters eat the stuff. BLO also attracts moisture rather than repelling it, which is another reason it attracts fungus. Finally, BLO has no UV resistance. I used BLO...

I have merged the Rutabaga CLOSING and later STAYING OPEN threads into this one thread.

Thanks for the update, Erica. Selling the business to motivated and simpatico buyers sounds like a better outcome for the canoe community than closing down.

Water is water. Gotta take what's available with whatever time and money is available. So, what's your impression of the handling characteristics of the Raven—in general and compared to your previous build? Anything you would do differently next time?

"Honor thy father." Whatever works. Very clever and good job, @sailsman63!

I'd say there are four types of hull symmetry or asymmetry. 1. Waterline (viewed from above AKA plan view). If the widest point of the waterline is forward of the longitudinal center of the hull, the hull is fishform. If the widest point it behind the center, the hull is swedeform. 2. Sheer...