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I know nothing about the shoes. I do know that "wrestling" is a sport from school. "Rassling" is a similar, but distinctly different, sport on TV.

It's a pretty little boat and looks like a seaworthy design. If it's close, a trip to take a look would be worthwhile. New construction is a plus, but it does appear to have been left out in the weather. Poke around in suspicious areas with a knife or an awl to check for rot. You can find...

Good luck with your search! Glad to help out.

Love your Norwegian signature!

Here's what mice in the wiring can do to a car.

Boatman, too bad that your sail is worn out. It looks like it has seen a lot of use. OTOH, your sail area is reduced and you won't be overpowered. ACA sells the 44 sq. ft. sails, price not specified. https://americancanoe.org/competition/teams/recognized-disciplines/canoe-sailing/You might...

KO, is this a canoe you have bought, or are thinking of buying? Grumman made three different kinds of keel, as shown in the brochure in Benson's link. The most common ("standard") has a T-shaped cross section, essentially it's a long skinny fin extending about 1-1/2" below the bottom of the...

Awesome, MKH! Is that Lake Moomaw?

Yakima also sells a "side load assist bar" that allows you to load and unload your canoe from the side of the vehicle, one end at a time. $129 bucks? You gotta be kidding! I found a scrap length of galvanized 1/2" water pipe that fits perfectly inside my Yakima round bars. Does the same...

It took quite a bit of trial and error to get the outer stem to fit the boat "as built," rather than "as imagined." Yesterday I finally installed it, with expensive #14 x 4" bronze screws and generous quantities of gap filling epoxy. The dowels are plugs for screw holes and will be cut off...

Thanks for following the build, jdeerfoot.

Here's the port sheer strake without all those clamps. Designer Karl Stambaugh knows how to draw a really nice curve.

Nice work, MKH! And thanks for your report on strength, cost, and durability of skin-on-frame. Dave Gentry designs lots of wonderful boats. Be sure to start a thread in the boat construction forum.

Excellent article, Odyssey. Note the "crooked canoe" in the foreground of the Lake Itasca water color, ...similar to the one in Adney and Chapelle's Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America. It must have been tough to paddle on a windy lake. The posture of the bow paddler in the...

It could be that this axe head has two different types of metal. The working edge would be a higher carbon steel that could be hardened and tempered. The body of the head could be a lower carbon steel, or even wrought iron. The two types of metal would be forge welded together...

Always looking to save a buck, I just stumbled upon an extensive series of free maps put out by the WV DNR. These are georeferenced PDF files and can be used with the Avenza mapping app on your smart device. They are good resources for paddling, hiking, hunting, fishing, and camping. There...

Guys, you are right about the unfortunate situation with private land ownership. $76 does not match my definition of "primitive camping." Would we were as enlightened as Scotland, where there is a "right to roam" law. On the South Fork of the Shenandoah, much of the land on river left between...

Greetings, MKH. Mine hurt, too, from paddling on Saturday. That's why I'm up at 4.30 AM applying Ben Gay. Where are you in VA? There's plenty of good canoeing here. I paddled the Maury River near Lexington on Saturday, Class I-II. You just missed the spring gathering of the Coastal...

Glenn, don't be dissin' my good ol' Norse paddle shovel!

Kokatat Women's Hydrus 3.0 Stoke Dry Top, size M. Brand new, never worn. Wife does not like neck gasket (never trimmed). (Photo from Internet) $250. Located Shenandoah Valley, VA. "The Women's Kokatat Hydrus 3.0 Stoke Dry Top has an action-cut design for maximum mobility and the...