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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...

I'm thinking of buying a Clipper Canoe or Zaveral bucket seat and figuring out how to attach it to the existing bench seat of my Kestrel. Either that or building up something like the Deal seat. You can get tractor seats online here: Clipper tractor seat or Zaveral bucket seats

Beautiful paddle, Marc.

That's why I gave up riding on roads with my bicycle, drivers have become so distracted and even outright negligent, that I don't trust them to see me, let alone acknowledge I'm there. Haven't ridden roads for almost fifteen years. A friend of mine was killed by a distracted driver a few years...

I like both styles of seat, just depends on the canoe and how I'll be paddling it. For tripping and cruising I prefer sitting in a bucket seat, while for noodling around on flat water and maneuvering on moving water I prefer kneeling on a bench seat. (For bigger white water I used a saddle.) The...