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Having now watched the video, the Wabakimi looks like another length recycle of the standard Keewaydin design. Bill basically says it's a stretched Keewaydin 16. To me, the only changes are likely to be the modest S kink of the gunwale at the stern seat and the recurved stern, neither of which...

56.1% of the USA is covered by snow today, compared to 19.1% last month. Here in northwest Connecticut, I haven't been outside for two days due to the snowstorm. I'm guessing about 15" on top of the several inches already on the ground. Tomorrow, I'll measure exactly while I'm outside for hours...

Me too . . . or three. I love my Yost Keewaydin 15, but does everything have to be a Yost design and do so many boats of different lengths have to be called Keewaydins or Prospectors? My Winters Winisk is a wonderful lake and river tandem. Too bad the wood is now rotted and the owner has...

I've increased the limit to 40 pictures per post (to accommodate one of my own trip reports).

That probably settles it for Mohawk: R-84 only on the outside of the sandwich and vinyl inside. Good memory and research.

Lovely, Marc. Is that protective edging on the the blade a triple layer of woods?

I don't get consistent responses from AI or regular searching as to what kind of plastic the inside skin on a Royalite hull is. It seems to vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, or from year to year from the same manufacturer. Some say the inside layer is an acrylic thermoplastic called R-84...

I hope to get to Florida in the spring or fall for a week or so of paddling, perhaps for the last time. Base camping trips in the Jersey Pinelands and Adirondacks. The WCHA Assembly, from which I hope to sneak away for a half day trip or two in the Dacks. Some "local" paddles with the...

According the the following Mohawk spec archive, a 16 foot Intrepid weighs 73 lbs. in Royalex and 63 lbs. in R84. Perhaps you can figure it out your hull material that way. https://www.mohawkcanoes.com/pages/boat-archive I don't ever recall using G/Flex to glue pads or anchors to a Royalex...

In my whitewater days 40 years ago, I had a nice rubber bladder canteen that would collapse somewhat as it emptied. It also had a convenient string attached to the screw cap so you wouldn't lose it when trying to sip water between rapids. Blaze orange color and it floated. I have no idea what...

Brookie, welcome to site membership! Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Many of the site's technical features are explained in Features: Help and How-To Running...

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Clint, welcome to site membership! Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Many of the site's technical features are explained in Features: Help and How-To Running...

"In March our phone rang, opening another chapter in our FreeStyle Canoeing story. Tryon Lindabury, and his late wife Anne were, without any doubt, the best tandem instructors in the FreeStyle world. We were fortunate to take lessons from the Lindaburys for many years. Tryon is now living in a...

Gadzooks, I'm old. I recall like yesterday when John Berry sold Millbrook Boats to Kaz in 1988. I still have my Berry-built Millbrook ME from 1982, which was refurbished by Kaz around 1994. According to John Berry's personal notes, the ancestral roots of Millbrook sprouted in his Bethesda...

Can we conclude that if we are outdoor-oriented and nature-loving canoeists—who happen to be inclined toward asociality, misanthropy or anthropophobia—we might actually favor increased biophobia among other daggum homo sapiens? Asking for a friend.

Lots of "phobias" and "isms" in the modern culture wars don't make etymological sense. The word you are looking for could be either "misanthropy" or "anthropophobia."

For at least 25 years, the only televisions we've had are two old, standard definition, 4:3 Sony CRTs. I didn't mind because I rarely watch TV and, when I did, I could watch the Spectrum channels on my laptop computer. But this fall Spectrum shut off my cable boxes and sent me new ones, which...

"Scientists have a name for the creeping dislike or even fear many people feel toward nature: biophobia. A new review of 196 studies reveals that this aversion to the natural world may be growing, with researchers warning of potential threats to both human well-being and environmental protection...

Did you watch the video? The entire premise of the 1 (min.)-10 (min.)-1 (hr.) Principle is to wear a life jacket. If you are (or if you can somehow climb onto a an overturned boat), the first module of the in-water training is how not to panic for the first one minute by learning how to...