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Summer now and I'm sleeping outside every other night in a "Tent Cot" under a tarp in the back yard. In the deep dark past I've spent the whole month of Maine rifle season living in a Mountainsmith tipi with a stove. I used a low Byers cot with metal rod legs spread between the rails. Being...

Back before the internet told me I needed to paddle Canadian style, I spent a lot of time tootling on flat water from the stern seat. I would put a 20 pound rock in the bow and heel the boat over on to its chine. I could get the paddle under the boat and with so little wetted surface in the...

I'm kind of intrigued with the idea of making an invisible repair. In general it is in very good condition, and it took me a while to find the flaws. There is a bit of denting on the bottom amidships which I should be able to push out but besides that the hull is smooth enough to take a buffer...

I found another issue with the canoe. There is a strip of aluminum on top of the keel join, inside of the hull. This has a number of corrosion holes. I am assuming there is a layer of some sort of bedding compound underneath. I think water or salt water sat in the the boat and wicked into the...

The tear in the canoe is 1 1/2" long and above the water line, so if brazing doesn't work, an adhesive repair of the repair shouldn't be a big deal. From the little research I did, there are a couple different types of rods available. I just need to sort out between the carny soldering beer...

I brought home a Sears aluminum canoe today. The price was low enough that I stopped looking for problems, and didn't notice a little tear until I got home. Duct tape would certainly work, but I'd like to try a more permanent fix. Has anyone here used a low temperature aluminum brazing rod and...

I had a simular eye opener with my solo. I immediately put short float bags in, but never did the second test. I hope to get some regular open water paddling time in on the Chesapeake this fall and will be putting the full white water bags that the boat came with, in just because. Resealing...

I'm having some trouble posting... I will be picking up a morsan Drawtite later on this week. I will post any instructions that might be included. The Timberline is a simplified derivative of the Drawtite and I think the warning "IMPORTANT: Do not attempt this assembly with the spanner joined."...

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Yea. I had a feeling that i was dealing with a skeleton crew when I called. I like the shape of the swift seat better than the Essex seat because it has softer edges, but the Swift seat did delaminate eventialy.

I was trying to source one a while back. This is the email I got from Swift: " Hi internet guy, Replacement ash seats retail for $45.00 + HST for the bow and $40.00 + HST for the stern. Parts can be shipped directly to you or you can arrange to pick them up from one of our retail...

As a preface, after meeting the Conovers, early 2000soming, I spent 7-8 month out of the the next 4 years living under canvas, making "cowboy coffee" with my ancient Svea 123 stove. Cowboy coffee and the wait..creeps over to the side of ritual. For more mobile camps I've carried a french...

Now I have a Raven (taken apart in the garage), and it is narrower than the the Osprey correct? Is the Shearwater a larger Osprey, or a different hull form? I checked the keel of my lawn art Penobscot and it actually hasn't hogged. A thin cord under tension showed a dead straight keel, so I...

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I have a small sea anchor that I carried when poking around the gulf coast in an inflatable canoe. It seemed like a long way to the yucatan if a storm caught me. I kind of lost interest because of curious sharks. I've got about a 12 mile fetch to Baltimore off my beach so I've thought about...

I just picked up a WaterBrick to use as water storage and movable ballast. It's 3.5 gallons and ~28 lbs full. It looks like it will work a lot better than the 5 gallon flexible jugs I was using before. I want to a layer of foam to the side of the jug so it has padding and stiction on the...

I could see having a bilge pump if you were setting up a kruger as a "micro ship" and attempting offshore passages. Then your bilge pump might be part of an electrical system with solar panels, a battery bank, running lights, vhf, gps, tablet, camera and other Teignmouth Electron apparatus...

Steve, Any thoughts on the Milbrook Souhegan for a boat that will do more solo paddling than poling? I'm assuming these are flatter bottomed than the Penobscot. COHO A general purpose boat with an slightly asymmetrical shallow arch hull. Slightly rockered, very stable. Originally designed...

Went with the thickened version, which apparently was different from the white "tinted" version I had used before and assumed I had bought more of for this project.

Quick question. Will thickened or straight G-flex work better for filling scratches in the bottom of a Royalex canoe? These are narrow scratches that go through the outer vinyl layer. I Thanks, Woody