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The Western PA Solo Canoe Rendezvous is a good one. It's held outdoors (including sleeping) but there are probably local motels that would work great to stay in. I especially like that you can paddle different canoes on the pond (with permission) and talk with people that really know their...

Clever!

Well, I got a reply from the retailer and this is what he told me about the new W A Fisher maps... "This year W A Fisher made the decision to change the aesthetic of their maps. ... sometime this spring they started shipping us these newly updated maps... which have more bold colors than the...

Here's a shot of the Cirrus Lake area on the overview map showing the boundary shading I mentioned and a portion of map F-26 showing how the boundary is typically shaded on the individual maps. Online images of older printings of F-28 show a similar shading. So it appears the edition of map F-28...

Well, Coyote is the trickster. ;)

I recently ordered some WA Fisher Maps for Quetico Provincial Park and received one that is misprinted, or at least that's what I'd call it, and wondered if it's a one-off problem. The misprint appears to be an error in the scaling of the shaded border along the Quetico boundary and makes it...

I just heard this story told on the Moth on NPR... The Cussing Canoeist The witness's account of the event while on the stand is priceless.

The Clipper Packer is a canoe I've wondered about. It's an interesting design and seems like a really versatile canoe, even with a tractor seat.

Thank you, Benson, I ran the tracert and pathping tools and found that there were time-outs occurring at some of the addresses shown in the list. That probably explains the freezeups/dropouts I was getting. And several sites had long response times. I tried a router reboot last night and things...

Thanks. I'll try flushing the router cache later today.

The past several days I've been experiencing slow (or no) responses to mouse clicks or finger pokes on the screen at this website. I have to click (or poke) twice to get links/buttons to open up. At first I thought it was the mouse or touch screen on our laptop but the same problem occurs with...

I've paddled the Magic enough to have an idea of its performance and it's a wonderful canoe, but for my weight I prefer the Kestrel for its reduced length and width for paddling ease and maneuverability. Plus, I now have a fast solo tripper so the Magic would be somewhat redundant. I would like...

I've wondered how the Merlin 2 compares with my Hemlock Kestrel. Not so much about which canoe is better but more about how they differ in speed/efficiency, maneuverability, and stability. I might like the Merlin 2 more than I want to. ;) gumpus, your comment about the maneuverability of the...

Excellent! Good to know that the Bending Branches grips fit a Zaveral shaft. I was thinking of doing the same with my ZRE straight paddle, which I want to shorten to use on shallow streams. The BB grips aren't ideal for palm rolling but I like them better than the hit-and-switch grips Zaveral...

As Emily Nutella (SNL) would say: "Nevermind." 🙄

And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming... :) Things change and so do our canoes. Two years later and we sold one* and added two, at opposite ends of the spectrum, so we're at four solo canoes now. It's a fairly wide range (though no true whitewater canoe) so I don't expect any...

I know you don't like the Subaru Crosstrek but we sure enjoy ours. The distance between the widest points in the openings along the factory rails is 40". Using a Yakima Timberline tower system the spread between round bars is just over 37". Width between rails is 42".

The high back seems to provide better support and definitely helps lock you into the seat. I also raised the seat up about an inch and ramped the seat forward (as yknpdlr mentioned) to get my feet get a bit lower and change the pressure points on my butt. Better paddling position as well. As for...

Ouch! I never had a full beer can thrown at me but I've had other debris tossed at me. I've had idiots driving diesel pickup trucks slow down next to me and then stomp it, spewing a thick, black cloud of semi-burnt diesel in my path. Wish I could have responded by tossing a smoke bomb into the...

Tractor seats will become the latest must-have collection for serious canoeists. 😃 I found that making a custom foam "inset" for a tractor seat is the way to go. I know that marathon racers have been doing that for many, many years but I'm a slow learner. It's what I should have done for all my...