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"But sooth to seyn, he was somdeel squaymous Of fartyng........." ---The Canterbury Tales How much do you really know about farts? Methinks this is a topic near and dear to all forumites. Test your knowledge with the Medscape Fast Five Flatulence...

Now it's time to attach the mast step to the hull. I used epoxy here because the joint needs to be extra strong. The trusty late '70s Nissan pickup truck jack is part of the clamping arrangement. It has been really cold here for the last couple weeks. Inside the shop has been below the...

Now it's time to make the mast step, which is a block of wood with a socket for the bottom of the mast. I had a "scrap" piece of sapele just the right size, that was given to me by a contractor. Of course this part needs a hole for the mast. There also needs to be a "limber" to drain...

I marked the locations of the risers on the inside of the hull. Then I drilled pilot holes from the inside. Drilling from the outside always introduces error. The mirror helps ensure that the holes are drilled somewhat "square" to the curve of the hull. The bubble level on my old corded...

Wow! I haven't posted in a long time. After installing the thwart, I took a long look at the plans. There was a little line that could have been an error, but maybe it meant the #1 frame was supposed to have a double layer of plywood. Since that frame takes part of the load from the mast...

Howard I. Chapelle: The Search for Speed Under Sail. Free on archive.org https://archive.org/details/searchfo...n0000chap_u5r7 Jason Vuic, The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History. New York: Hill and Wang (2010)

I admire your winter canoeing. Winters here in Virginia are usually mild, and there are few opportunities to practice maneuvering through ice. This week is an exception: 8 inches of snow Sunday night and temps predicted below freezing all week. Where did you find the ice hook? IMO the dark...

You are forewarned. Medscape article on Burn Injuries: Complications and Care Options. There are little nuggets of information in this article that we might use in field situations. It's more helpful for canoe trippers as a guide to what happens at the ER after we administer first aid...

As my wife's grandmother once commented: "Du muss' nicht zwei languages zusammen putten!" Outstanding canoe and brilliant paddling.

I'll bet you didn't know that injuries from pickleball cost $400 million per year in the US. I thought pickleball was a sedate game for old folks. This article is mainly about injuries from football and other team sports. Still, we may see similar injuries from paddling. An overview of...

Traumagel is a new plant-based polymer that can be injected directly into wounds to stop severe bleeding. It is supplied in a syringe so it can be injected directly into a wound. The FDA recently approved this product for Rx-only use. The manufacturer hopes to obtain approval for OTC...

What's to discuss? Here is an OC-1 paddler's take on the question, courtesy of the Blue Ridge Voyageurs. http://www.blueridgevoyageurs.org/canoeVsKayak.html The article is too long to quote in its entirety, but here is a sample: ....Reasons #11, 12, and 13: Get more chicks/get a real man...

A cookbook for the guys out in remote fire towers. Today we would not want to portage some of the ingredients, but the recipes still whet my appetite. https://foresthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/1938Cookbook.pdf

I have a Celstron 6x30 monocular that I like very much. It weighs about 8 ounces. The image is remarkably sharp, clear, and free of distortion. I have double vision issues that are mostly corrected by my glasses. Most inexpensive binoculars do not have enough eye relief to use with...

I don't want to watch, thank you, but 77 lbs is a pretty small whitetail buck. That weight is consistent with the deer being a young one. Where I live that weight would be typical of a deer roughly 18 months old. Male whitetails of that age can do remarkably stupid things, like getting caught...

If you're going to "pak" it, how much does it weigh?

The canoes in Benson's post #15 above do not have ribs. IDK why there would be the single rib in the OP canoe. In its purest form, cold molding is a monocoque assembly, somewhat like strip built canoes. This beautiful little dinghy shows the construction. She has a keelson, seat risers, and...

More pictures, please Circa. My vote is also for cold molding. But I can't figure out how or why someone would install veneer strips in what appears to be a basketweave pattern. That would make a complicated construction technique even more complicated. Here's a photo of contemporary cold...

We store canoes on an elevated rack at car top height. To prevent birds nesting in the canoes, we hung rubber snakes on the thwarts. When we first started our big remodeling project, it took a little while to get the porta-john delivered. One of the carpenters had to answer a call of...

After two close encounters with hatchets, I have permanent injuries to my left hand. My grip is weak, and I can't hold a coffee mug with my wrist in a neutral position. I can't hyperextend my left thumb. It gets in the way when I try to type on a laptop keyboard. I would have trouble...