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That's what I'd assumed and according to you and Glenn, it also works with web images. Excellent!

Never thought of doing that. Great suggestion!

The Wilderness Act is well-intended but misguided, selectively biased to accommodate hikers/paddlers with an idealized "wilderness" aesthetic. It's too rigid in its one-size-fits-all approach to management and ignores the fact that "Man" had been living in those areas for thousands of years...

Interesting, but makes sense given the size of phone screens.

Keep your eyes out for a Clipper Sea-1 canoe as well. It's a little longer (17' 9" vs 17' 3") and a little narrower (28" max width), but is essentially the same boat. The Mad River catalog lists the Monarch gunnel width as 28" so max width might be 30".

Thanks for that suggestion. I've been resampling (downsizing) images to better match screen displays but your suggestion is easier and faster.

How do you control the display size of an inserted image? I've tried changing image pixel size and DPI and the image still gets posted at the same (full) size. I'd like to be able to control the dimensions of a displayed image. Or is there a default image display size and what is that default...

It's from a couple of summers ago but brings some color and sunshine to yet another snowy day. Not that I'm complaining, this winter has been great for alpine skiing. Katydid, meet Lady Bug...

Here's a chart showing years of freeze over since 1816. You can see how the gaps between ice over are widening...

That's a nice one. The user defined scale entry would be handy because I often print my own maps but not always to a common scale. I have a cheap one that'll measure inches/centimeters and I have to convert to map distance.

Deitzgen is the company that made my Dad's drafting set, too. There were enough pieces missing, though, that I bought my own set for college. (Mine was made by Charvoz.) Drafting was one of my favorite classes, but I never designed machine parts or buildings for my job. Instead, I used the...

So here's the manual... And how it sets up... And an example of how it works... Using this planimeter, which measures one square inch per revolution of the measuring wheel (with the gradation markings), and having tenths of an inch increments, along with the vernier scale, I can measure the...

I went from hand drawing units from stereo pair aerial photo interpretation and USGS topo mapping to using Autodesk AutoCAD and ESRI ArcGIS. The incremental improvements over that time, using a number of devices and technology, was not without a fair amount of frustration. At times we'd have to...

Planimeter, able to measure to hundreths of a square inch. It was used by foresters to measure the scaled mapping area of forest stands, timber sale units, post-sale activity units, and fire areas, among other things. You'd measure the square inch area of a unit drawn on a map and convert it to...

Not sure what you mean by that.

Here's one that most people won't recognize. Well, ppine might...

Not really, I was looking for a lightweight version of our Curtis Northstar and was wondering if the Polaris was as stable. And like l said, we're getting older, but still enjoy "messing about in boats". Not at all. Gumpus's comment about steering from the bow/stern brought up another advantage...

That's what I'm looking for. (Well, it's an advantage to what I'm looking for.) We want to learn some tandem freestyle moves (I know better than to try and teach her myself) and the Polaris, while not a Savage River Harmony, Loon Works Duet, Colden Starfire, or any number of other nimble canoes...

Hmmm, wonder how that will affect the Adirondack Freestyle Canoeing Symposium?

That was my take on it. Your link to the Bell catalog is a nice resource and the specifications for the Northstar do strongly suggest that the Polaris is basically the same canoe. As for layups, I'm less concerned about durability and UV degradation than I used to be. The canoe won't be used on...