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Found kayaks, one in the Potomac and one in the Patuxent. That's not counting two kayaks I found beside the Patuxent, that turned out were stolen from a friend of mine. He was pretty happy to get them back, because he had borrowed them from an outfitter for a church camp and the outfitter's...

Wow. Many, many linear feet of welded seams. She found the plans on the internet! Who puts plans for a 12 foot moose on the internet? How much demand can there be for those plans? Thanks for posting.

"Best of" lists are always disappointing. But look at the methodology and the results make sense. To be considered for the list, the lakes had to be nominated by a panel of top-10 list makers. If you look at the panel-members, none of them were paddlers. There were a good number of fishermen...

On a boatless western trip in 2021, I drove through Michigan’s UP. I saw so many canoes atop vehicles it made me think the UP was canoe Mecca. I returned with canoe in ‘22 and discovered Michigan is great canoe country. Of course, there’s lots of great canoe country. But as the OP notes...

I met a guy while paddling who only paddled on one side. He made his paddle with the grip angled to make it easier on his top hand. He annually won a local whitewater race, paddling on one side. Not sure if he used cross forwards. The point is, switching paddle sides isn’t mandatory. There’s an...

Car camping at Fruita CG in Capital Reef at a tent area which was a large semi open field. The tent was pitched near the truck with a table 30 yards away. I left my Action Packer food box on the table with a couple cook pots on top. Sure enough, a raccoon messed with the box in the middle of the...

Christmas tree, preferably (Chinese) plastic with integrated lights.

I’m astounded by the spread of the Bradford pear. I don’t remember seeing it much 30 years ago, and now the woods turn white in March. It used to be the dogwoods that lit up the woods in April, but they’ve been dramatically reduced by fungal infections and other stresses, while the Branfords...

Thanks for the TR. seems like you had a pleasant trip.

Does Mississippi count as southeast? There's a 90-mile, scenic and wild river there with flowing water and many campable sand bars. Well, not a river, I guess, since it is called Black Creek. We did a 5-day trip there back in 2016. We made our trip in early March when the trees were just...

I used artists acrylic paint, the kind that comes in a tube, to tint West Systems epoxy. It did not affect the performance of the epoxy as far as I could tell. Tint is what I got—it did not color the epoxy to the point it was opaque. Perhaps if I’d used more paint I could have gotten a darker...

Usually, listen to radio. On long trips, there are rules. Find a station with music and listen until they start talking or the signal fades. Any lyrical references to beer, blue jeans, or pickups result in an immediate change of station. And similes count. For example “suds” = beer. “Flat bed...

Naked women. sunbathing on large rocks along the Gunpowder River. Not really strange, but unusual. Speaking of naked, my friends encountered the "Paddling Bares," a nudist canoe group, in the Pine Barrens. They said it wasn't pretty.

4 good ol' boys fishing in a small Jon boat which had 2-4" of freeboard. But that wasn't the strange part. What was that silverish, foot high, stick thing floating nearby? Upon closer inspection, it was a tap, and it was attached to a keg, which was floating in a mostly submerged trash can of...

3/16" hole and a pop rivet? Or for that matter, just the hole, or two holes, and insert the line through the holes and tie it off with a stopper knot.

Can anybody refer me to discussion of pros and cons of “lining” holes? I intend to install holes for painter tie off to my B-17. Clearly, putting the hole low on the stems is superior for lining. However, you then have a big loop of rope outside the hull, and it seems like that would get hung up...

Gerber River Shorty, mounted on the front of my PFD, had a sheath to which the knife snapped into. The knife dropped out somewhere and was lost. Somebody else had a similar drop-out while they were carrying around a log jam on the Mullica River. I found it and snapped it into the vacant sheath...

My wallet and a video camera were secured in a pocket of a small back pack, along with a few other small items. The backpack was tied to a thwart of my buddy’s Grumman as we descended a rapid on the East Outlet. We were ejected when the non-floating painter on the canoe engaged the river bottom...

This post might be a longer read than it is worth. But, now that I wrote it... Steve and I paddle the same, 7-mile stretch of the Patuxent at least 20 times a year. The stretch, Bowie to Queen Anne, is a muddy flatwater with 1-2mph current, is about 15-30 yards wide, and has plenty of timber to...

Lots of good solutions offered above, but 2x4s are best in my opinion. I don’t often carry two canoes. In the past, I’ve attached the 2x4s to the bars with hose clamps. Very solid, and 2x4s are sort of magically sticky to ropes, and I’d think straps, although I’m a rope guy so just speculating...