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I think that's quite a good price. A new one lists at $3,699, and there are quite a few goodies included in this sale. That canoe looks mint too. I didn't think much of the Spirit 2 until I actually used one on an 8 day trip. It is a solid tripping canoe, fast on the flats, very capable in...

The premium hot tent for people who canoe or man haul has always been the snowtrekker. I have this one - https://snowtrekkertents.com/collections/tents/products/9x11-5-basecamp However, there are many other hot tents on the market now, many considerably cheaper than the snow trekker. If I were...

My ends are seldom perfect, and like Alan I see it as a drainage hole, lol. I have a process for installing inwales, it doesn't involve math, measuring tapes or common sense. My inwales are intentionally long, I clamp them as far as I can, starting from the center, with the ends riding high...

Glued these up with thickened epoxy yesterday. They are just under 3/4 of an inch, white oak. I usually overbuild the inwales as I hang everything from them. These are for the 20 footer.

I suppose if you are gluing the entire length to the hull, there will be an added strength factor, but even with that, the short scarf will be an area of weakness. I'm thinking of a catastrophic event, such as a pin, particularly if you have a short scarf on both the inwale and the outwale. Of...

Agree with Cruiser, that's not gonna hold. I'll post shots of my scarfs tomorrow I recently did, they are quite long.

somehow I missed this thread when it was originally posted. I'm not sure, my memories from childhood are pretty bad, but it was either a sports pal or a springbok. My dad had bought a sports pal bath tub type canoe, I was around 8 I think, but it began to leak almost immediately. He had bought...

Super nice job! You are a real craftsman!

Interesting, my shoulders have side lined me since November of this year. I received a cortisone shot in March, it did absolutely nothing. I have a follow up appointment at the end of June, will be interested to see what they say.

Just googled the drive....12 hours from G-Town. If it had been the following weekend, I would have been off work, dang it. Sounds like a great time!

First paddle of the year today. Still more ice than open water. That mountain in the back is the new open pit mine in G-Town. The perspective is off, it's a massive hill of arsenic filled dirt, at least 200 feet tall already. Some people see money, some people see an ugly hill, I'm of the...

Wouldn't work up here, as our ice is almost immediately covered by several feet of snow, and then develops anywhere from six inches to 3 feet of slush. If we have a good year, the slush disappears in February, leaving a harder layer of snow that can be travelled on, but I don't think it would...

The thing about these new watches is that they can take over your life. Between worrying about your sleep score, your "Body battery life" (it figures out your energy surpluses and minuses it like a video game character), your step count, your heart rate, your blood pressure (which rises...

I've recently purchased a Garmin Fenix 7. It was on sale for a great price. One aspect of that watch, beyond the mapping capabilities, is the built in flashlight. I would say it is the one thing I use the most. It's brighter than my phone flashlight. The battery life is fantastic. I uploaded...

I can add a couple off observations to the innie-outtie debate, lol. I have always put a football on the outside (football first, under the full sheet). However, the only major destructive events that have happened with my canoes have been inside hull separations, which lends credibility to...

I've been rethinking this, it seems to me there are all kinds of new, younger wilderness canoetrippers, at least on social media. They are probably more responsible for recruiting newbies to paddling than any of us old codgers. If you look at YouTube or Instagram or any of those platforms...

Someone give me a spork once, I'm not sure what happened to it. I'll probably get flamed for this, but I put sporks and Tilley hat's in the same company, items that the cool kids have.

I thought you paddled the Berens river too Alan, so wouldn't that add Manitoba to your list?

Perhaps you are right, I guess its just sour grapes on my part, I was unhappy when they dumped the J. Winters line. On the other hand, I priced out a light weight solo from swift with all the bells and whistles and it came in around 8000 canadian, which seems like a lot of dough to me. I suppose...

Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Manitoba. I would really like to come down to the USA one of these days for some international paddling.