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It's not the raising itself; it's the strength of the roof in the up position when it's only supported by the ends. But it's not an issue, as we haven't needed to bring a canoe when we're using the camper. The canoe normally stays at the cabin.

That old fiberglass canoe I mentioned above... Mom and Dad gave up the cabin the year I turned 14, but maintained their membership at the camp and still kept the canoe there. Some years later I had a new girlfriend, and we decided to do some canoe camping. Dad said to use the canoe, and then...

When the roof is down, maybe; I've never attempted it. Certainly it'd have to be removed before raising the top. They made a hard top version that's probably more robust.

We really like our Tiger motorhome. It's a 1989 model, based on a Chevy Astrovan. New ones have eye watering prices but the older ones are more reasonable.

Built in 1942, certainly not fiberglass. Looks like a typical wood/canvas cable.

That video has me really wanting to get back on the water! I haven't paddled since last September when I tore my rotator cuff lifting my old heavy blue monster canoe; my new to me Explorer is waiting patiently in the shed. PT is going well so soon... I never heard of "freestyle" paddling...

I still own the first canoe I paddled, sixty years ago.

Product name "CHIPWA"

I must confess, I have two sporks and one is titanium, both gifts, not sure where either is. Like Glenn mostly I use a long handled titanium spoon. The titanium spork is actually OK (but unnecessary) if you're on the kind of trip where somebody brings steaks.

Dacron IS polyester; it's just Dupont's trade name for polyester fabric. Also used for aircraft covering under the trade names Ceconite, Poly-Fiber, and others, but it's all just polyester fabric.

No, it's a ruling pen. This is the one from my set, part of one of the compasses: You set it to the line width you want and use a dropper to squirt some ink in between. Surface tension holds it there and it's drawn out when it touches the paper. Tricky to use and easy to end up with a big...

Not sure which bit you're looking at but there's no metal scribe. There a couple of ruling pen tips, and the points on the dividers are for transferring measurements from the scale (ruler) to paper.

Probably not a big deal here; I imagine most people are posting their own images rather than from the web... unless it's in image in their own cloud storage.

I don't remember if it was an earlier version of Xenforo or another platform, but when inserting an internet image there was a checkbox to link in place or copy the and reference locally. Might be a feature that can be enabled? When storage was more expensive many admins preferred to reference...

I was speaking mainly of copy-pasting an image from my computer. But from the internet, if you copy-paste the image, it will then reside on this server. If you copy-paste the link, then yes, that link could break. Rightclick on an image in Firefox and get: But, if I copy-paste the link...

My new old Royalex canoe sure weighs less than the old 1960s fiberglass canoe that trashed my shoulder last fall! Re throwing canoes from roofs, there was a story some years back about a canoe that came loose from a seaplane and fell a thousand feet or so. When they finally found and retrieved...

I generally just use copy-paste to upload images.

I have and often use one of those, though it's not as nice as yours. That level of technology just means less to go wrong, and it lands so slowly you're unlikely to get hurt. They used to say, "The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you."

This is Dad's compass set, purchased when he was in college in the late 1940s. I used it during the first part of my own engineering career (early 1980s) until CAD took over. Every once in a while I pull it out on the rare occasion it's easier to make a paper drawing.

I still have one somewhere. Think I last used it around 1982.