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Always amazing to see another birchbark canoe being born. Very cool stuff! Didn't know that birch would steam that well into ribs. Nice to know! Out in Northern Quebec & Labrador, the Cree & Innu would still use spruce for ribs. It would be split differently than cedar but still bend well.

Great looking boats Robin. Good luck with the potential sale at the WCHA assembly. Wish I could've made it to see your hot tent display too.

Thanks! I've already ordered the same bug net shelter for our next trip. The mosquitoes are something fierce this year...

For me, spending July 1st paddling your canoe is the ultimate way to celebrate Canada. A close second would be sipping tea and smoking under a tarp during a wash out. Enjoy your trip!

Beautiful pics of your Prospector and gear. Love the wannigan! Glad to hear you and Jake are ok after your chilly close call. The weather in the Great Lakes region sure has been bipolar this summer. I'm planning to bring a 100% wool blanket on trips this season regardless of the bulk.

Nice! Kind of looks like this this piece of gear from Field and Stream...

Thanks everyone. Feeling pretty great that the little ones enjoyed themselves without any trouble...a canoe tripping dad's wish come true. Potential for another longer trip (4-6 days) later in the summer. Martin: Appreciate the kind words about my site. No sales link because I'm really doing...

Got to spend the May Long Weekend on the first overnight trip of 2017. One of my son's classmates has an experienced, canoe-tripping dad and we were graciously invited to join their family trip. The location was Big East Lake, just East of Bracebridge, Ontario. At one point in the planning we...

I too made a wanigan using some pine and plywood scraps. It was made smaller for solo use but fully stuffed it has worked for my young son and I. Here is a writeup on my basic build with more links to other online instructions (some have repeated earlier in the thread)...

Great write-up and lovely shots of your canoes. Cheese dogs & KD dinner will be on my future menu. Fantastic message on your resurrected sign and encouraging that folks seem to have respected the camp site.

2nd trip of 2017...lucky you. Thanks for posting all the links to your gear choices. Nice to see what other people are using out there.

Beautiful pack. You scored a deal given the dollar exchange. Enjoy it!

FrozenTripper: Read the same news this morning. I've paddled this exact area many times. In spring flood the falls are very picturesque but also powerful. There's a generating station tucked away behind the main waterfall so the area is very well marked with large danger signs, orange...

If interested, the image is from this article on Canadian Woodworking... https://www.canadianwoodworking.com/plans-projects/make-wannigan

The adjustable angles split in half and are loosened or tightened with a 6mm hex bolt. The ridge pieces slip into the O shaped hole between them and when the bolts are fully tightened, it clasps very tight, especially on a wood dowel. So it does not move or flop over. Problem is that if your...

Great work Robin! That's an awesome bit of canoe surgery. Did you keep the ribs & planking you removed? Maybe you can re-use them to make one of those fancy curved wanigans...

You all know I'm a traditionalist to the extreme. Nothing beats hand-eye coordination like using a skinny animal tail mini paddle! Although annoyingly yelling out "HUT" on every backhand sometimes confuses the opponent.

Maybe the engineers of those Helinox chairs will work their magic and make a 2 lb backcountry billiard table that folds up to the size of a nalgene bottle.

Updated the original post with the Amazon.ca link to the angle joints. Just under 9$ Canadian a piece with cheap shipping too. Never expected them to be high quality but should hold up well enough for my planned usage. I'm not taking this thing on an expedition across Labrador or something...

Seeing all those great photos & videos of Robin's customized wall tent gave me some serious cravings for a canvas shelter. Been spending part of the winter making my own custom version as a sort of prototype. It's a 7x7x 6 with 3foot walls. Canvas drop cloth roof with side panels and backwall...