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Pat Moore denied that his "cod head" canoes were fishform, if fishform is defined as having the center of buoyancy ahead of the longitudinal center. That misconception arises from the fact that an overhead plan view of his gunwale line (not his waterline) will show a gunwale flare ahead of the...

COW, I'm curious as to why my "Happy Day" Jack Kerouac birthday notice is the title of this thread. Did his journeys have something to do with Ross Lake or Desolation Peak? One aspect is that I've learned that emojis can be put in thread titles. Never knew that.

BF, maybe you said this in another thread, but what adhesive did you use? Also, two questions about the foot bar. Did you have to bend the bracket at all to follow the curvature of the hull? And how does that bar slide forward and back on the bracket, given that the hull width narrows from back...

Savage River offers light Textreme in various colors. It is a lighter fabric than regular Textreme and the fibers are dyed to get the colors. For both of those reasons, Savage River recommends an outer skin of S-glass. As a result, this layup is very expensive and may be a pound heavier than a...

I've never had Chip's issue on my Hemlock SRT tractor seat, but I began having tailbone pain when driving long distances in my car. A cushion with a tailbone cutout solved the problem.

Thanks for the pictures. I love cypress and tupelo swamps.

Steve, as of today, the entire Grand Ronde watershed seems to be in the red (~drought) area of your snow water equivalent link. Are you prepared to travel 6,000 miles round trip to paddle a bony river? Your bucket hat survived and made it into your avatar!

Very nice looking canoe, Joe. I didn't know a carbon fusion layup could come with a tinted exterior and a basalt-Innegra interior, and at such a low weight. Swift is so cutting edge when it comes to materials and aesthetics.

I believe you would find the Placid Rapidfire and certainly the Spitfire too initially unstable with kneeling seats. @yknpdlr has a Rapidfire with a kneeling seat, so maybe he will chime in. The Spitfire is only 12 foot length overall, not 13. For what you want to paddle, I'd prefer forward...

WCS has been running for at least a decade. It's organized by Tracy Hunt and Paul Klonowski.

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"You are invited to the Wisconsin Canoe Symposium (WCS)! The symposium is located in Westfield, WI, approximately 60 minutes north of Madison, WI. Arrive as early as Thursday afternoon and paddle through mid-day on Sunday." "NEW THIS YEAR: You can arrive as early as Wednesday afternoon...

What are the odds? A member posts pictures of a faraway trip from long ago, and two others post pictures of the very same rapid. Well, considering the canoe-mania affliction, perhaps the odds aren't that long.

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Same here. Annoying. I have virtually no place to plow snow with my tractor blade on my 600' driveway, which has snow walls on each side. Jim, what's the dog's breed and name?

Sedges, tell what canoes you have. I see at least three wood ones.

Really late to this thread, but poling interests me. I regret not being more serious about it when I was younger. Steve, is that a Home Depole?

Me too. I tried it for paddling in the early 80s and a couple of times since. It doesn't breathe all that well and eventually loses waterproofness. I prefer a truly waterproof fabric with lots of ventilation ports.

Got about 16" here. Rhode Island got bombed with 38". The following article has an interactive chart that can be searched and sorted for different states and locations. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/02/24/search-snowstorm-reports-from-noreaster/88835559007/