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I consider a 2 person tent to be a 1-1/2 person tent. When there are two of us, it's nothing smaller than 3 person. I have a Nemo DragonFly OSMO 1 person, but I only use it in severely space restricted places and I really don't care for it. Last summer on the Big Salmon River, we had to do a...

You are probably right. I wrote it and then tried to figure out which section in this forum I should post it. I also think of it as an installment. There are so many little things I learn on each trip that help me streamline the process. I think as we get older, we all become efficiency...

As an old person and charter member of the multiple back surgery club, I am vitally interested in the minutiae of details that make wilderness canoe camping trips workable - even comfortable - for me. Youngsters, keep scrolling. If you have no trouble getting out of your tent and standing up...

"I had hoped the Dragonfly 15 would have a similar balance, just more gentle with a slower leaning response..." I think you're on the right track. I have Expedition Kevlar, but I had a Swift in Kevlar Fusion that I used quite a bit and I think it is plenty strong enough. I took it far with no...

Bruce Kemp, who has paddled an original Dragonfly for years, tried out my DF15 and felt it was immediately familiar, albeit larger and more stable.

If I have a complaint about the DF15, it is that mine weighs 39 lbs., but it's Expedition Kevlar with a gel coat inner bottom, which all adds up. That's the same as an SRT. As far as stability, it is not as lively as the original Dragonfly, but livelier than the Rockstar. That roughly equates...

Wow! That is incredible.

I carry three shells. If I know it's going to be a rainy day, I wear an Arc'teryx Beta SL rain jacket under my PFD, which I normally keep packed away in my clothes pack. In my accessible grab bag, I have a Black Diamond Stormline rain shell in a size larger than I usually wear that fits over...

I use a handheld Thermacell that has no battery. When the bugs are thick, I warm it up and slip it in my tent for 15 minutes or so before I get in. It seems to prevent the bugs from entering the tent until I can get the mosquito netting zipped up. Works well for me.

I think there was more water in 1981 when my brother and I did the trip. This is "the tight squeeze", which I believe is your last photo. I am in the stern.

I'll play. On the cusp of 70, I don't consider a folding chair a luxury item. I have tried a bunch including multiple Helinox and I agree with the Helinox Chair One in its latest incarnation. Good paddling shoes, a high quality tent and good sleeping pad are necessities for me. Luxuries...

My guess is a Savage River Illusion.

If these look interesting, they ARE vegan and I'll have them there Friday night. Chocolate dipped peanut butter cookies.

I will be bringing my Swift Dragonfly 15 for others to try. Friday night is a vegetarian pot luck and I will be cooking up quesadillas and balsamic roasted Brussel sprouts. Saturday morning I'll be making vegan, gluten free pancakes.

I've just finished paddling my new Swift Dragonfly 15 for a couple of days in the New Jersey Pine Barrens with some friends, so I can finally relate my initial impressions of this canoe. First, let me say that it's all positive. This is a very fun canoe to paddle. Coupled with being a truly...

Yes. I'll take some more pictures. I will take it on the Big Salmon River this summer. I plan to use it as intended. We shall see how the new epoxy UV shield holds up.

I can't say. I suspect that if one were to take the plastic snap base, rough it up with 80 grit sand paper and anneal it with a torch, that the 3M adhesive pad would stay put. That is not a very practical solution except for the truly obsessed.

The failure is actually taking place between the adhesive pad and the plastic snap base. It leaves the adhesive pad on the canoe. They are the YKK SNAD's. YKK's response to the issue was that the marine snaps were not meant to get wet.

If everybody liked the same thing, it would be a boring world.

They referred to it as the Dragonfly XL initially. I lobbied for SuperFly. It would have a theme song and everything. Seriously though, I think of it as more of a larger, drier and more responsive Phoenix. Robert