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I'd also note that in event of a capsize, it's far easier to roll a kayak (if the water is deep enough)..... But canoes are still better. Sam

To put a rib in, I machine and sand the rib. Next I steam it, bend the first corner then force the end up under the gunnels and then continue the bend, forcing the rib into the chines and pushing hard to round the bottom, then clamping it. I let it cool for a couple of hours so the rib is...

My sons disco has a similar hog problem. Solved for the time with am ash rib forced in and wedged up under the gunnels. Before that solution we tried all sorts of weight and heat combinations but as soon as the sun shone, the hogging came back. To be honest, on flat water I think it's an...

I aware of your paddle making and paddling: both are way beyond my level! When I make things, I get comments like 'oh it's too good to use' etc. This drives me mad. I make furniture to use, I make paddles to use; in fact I can't think of very few things I've ever made which were not intended...

I really can't understand how you could NOT go out and use a paddle like that, even only once. Sam

That one's had a tough life......long may it continue!

The best canoe when you're out on the water is the one you're paddling

Good Luck. The WCPP trip I did last September was originally booked for 2020. Hope it all works out for you as it did for me. Regarding hurting yourself: I went over on my ankle 10 days before we left the UK. I spent those days on the settee with my foot raised unless I had to be on my feet...

Maps are good. I had my WCPP topo maps about four months before I left the UK for Canada. I had lots of imagining to! Sam

I never liked sport, participating or watching. I was in my schools football (soccer) team when I was 10 but that was probably just to make up the numbers as it was a small school, and I was also in the cricket team where I was last in the batting order and when fielding was always placed where...

I've done a few of the those courses. Very confidence giving and as you know you are going to swim not any where near as bad as an unplanned swim. I have to say that it's the cold water reaching inside my clothes which I really dislike. My dry suit helps enormously with this, but I don't wear it...

I have always hated swimming and getting wet, both in a pool and canoe upsets, however I did enjoy rapids to the extent that I bought a Mohawk probe OC1. If I wasn't fairly confident I'd be ok I'd carry round. When the London Olympic white water course opened for public use, I went down there. I...

Looking back at my quote, the price is given in US$, but y,es that was the flight in for two and two canoes organised by Albert at Goldseekers.

Red lake to Donald Lake cost me 435 canadian for our WCPP trip. The flight was part of trip that had waited a long time so I wasn't going to question the cost.

I too have noticed this. Sam

Yes - a grave stone in memory of Maighstir Alasdair of Dalilea. c1720 Much more information is here Sam

I always scarf join my gunnels but that is because long lengths are not available, 3M being typical. I first machine them to height and width then use the router table to cut the rebate up to where the scarf will be - about 30cm from the ends. I then cut and glue the joints then finish the...

No these two Lochs are not connected - about 29 miles by road. Morar is connected to Loch Nevis by a portage at Tarbet (which in Scottish Gaelic means 'carry across' - there are a few places named Tarbet. Loch Nevis is a sea loch and again the weather is changeable. You don't want to go there if...

I’ve just got back from a week of paddling in the Moidart area in the west of Scotland, about a 12 hour drive from home. 1st stop was Loch Morar, the UKs deepest loch at 300 meters. Every previous time I have been there the weather has been extremely variable and this was no exception; strong...

I'm fairly sure the awkward portage was one of the two between Hammerhead and C lake. We had to climb over fallen trees and thread the canoes through. Sam