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Is the roof structure enough that you can load a canoe on it? We had a camper van and loved it but it was built on a 9' tall Transit chassis so was too high for loading boats. That forced us to use a trailer which meant we lost a lot of the mobility and convenience of a van. There were...

There's a group of us who meet in the Ozarks every Fall for a week of paddling, typically in mid-September. It's always worked out great because the rivers are spring fed so the water levels are always fine. One of group has gone on the road full time in an RV and will be out East this Fall...

I'd love to see some pictures if you end up doing it. I'm about an hour away now but still have it on my bucket list. You're probably aware, but there is a path to the bottom of the spillway off Albemarle Circle although I don't think you'd be able to leave a shuttle vehicle there since it's a...

I used to live within a stone's throw of Morse Lake and always wanted to run the section of Cicero Creek from below the spillway to where it meets the White River but water level and my schedule never aligned.

If it's any consolation their strap system doesn't work well on kayaks either. Just like with a canoe, the cart sits near the bottom third of a kayak where it's tapering so the cart wants to slide off. Wrapping the straps around a canoe or kayak doesn't help - they need to attach to something...

I asked Northstar about this because my canoe was going to be on the roof for a 2 month trip out west and a 3 month trip to Florida. They basically told me not to worry about it. I sprayed it with 303 protectant the same way I do for my wife's plastic kayak.

Paddling in the Gulf south of Tampa.

It might be an unpopular stance, but I wear a PFD less than half the time. I stopped paddling with my local club because it's a requirement that everyone wear a PFD all the time. I'm an adult who's been paddling all types of water for 50+ years. I wear one when paddling whitewater and even...

We've been getting flocks of sandhill cranes flying overhead northbound for the past week.

Not having an electrical systems means that's one less thing to go wrong. I just fly low enough to see the town name on the nearest water tower to get my bearings. An advantage of living in farm country and flying a plane with a tailwheel that lands at a brisk walking pace means the world is...

I still have a bunch of them packed away somewhere in boxes from our move last Fall. I'm not sure why I kept them in the move since I haven't used them since college in the 1980's and I was pretty heartless about throwing stuff away during the move. They just started excavating for my new shop...

I have a Google Pixel 7 Android phone and I wouldn't trust the compass for navigation. When camping in our RV I use it to find north when setting up our Starlink antenna. I've seen it vary as much as 30 degrees. I don't know if it's the app or the sensors built into the phone that causes that...

A wet compass is almost all I have as far as instruments go. I can't even see that when I have a passenger up front.

That's the exact situation I'm in and why I started my thread asking about tandems. The only differences are we aren't yet in our 70s and I (but not her) prefer rivers so I want a tandem that steers well from the stern because my wife will be of no help in that regard. Primary stability isn't...

Or Prospector.

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I'm not a believer in Goretex as far as breathability. I've owned, and still own, high end Goretex jackets and hiking shoes and, for me, they get every bit as hot and clammy as non-goretex. It's one of those things that is good in theory but doesn't pan out so...

I paddle a kayak in whitewater because I never learned to roll a canoe. On my last trip I got a gash on my forehead but that's the price you pay for not having to swim. We go to Florida for the winter and in the past I've brought a kayak since we sometimes paddle in the gulf far from shore but...

We're here at the same time each year. Last year was a wet one which really brought out the hoards of mosquitoes in Flamingo. This year is particularly dry. We wanted to paddle the Turner River from route 41 to Chokoloskee but turned back due to low water. On the plus side, it was nice not...

How was the water level? We did a lot of paddling in the Big Cypress last month and there were places we went in the past that were impassable this year.

We've been camping in Florida since the first of the year and will be here for a few more weeks. We've paddled several days a week - mostly in Rookery Bay and in the mangroves trails like the Turner River in Big Cypress and yesterday on Key Largo. We're moving north in a couple days to Myakka...