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When traveling a long distance with overnight hotel stays, I always park with the car parked as close as possible to view from my hotel room window, under street lights if possible. The hotel clerk was usually accommodating. And the bicycle lock has to be a cable type lock, looped around a...

A simple tool that helps a lot is a short (6-7") length of half inch pvc coduit pipe with a rope or webbing looped through. If the loop is exactly long enough, you can loop it along with the conduit around a gunwale or the short bow and stern brace. This makes a very handy comfortable handle...

Definitely recommend a fabric cover as suggested above. RedLeaf is a good company and will precisely fit your exact boat. Also definitely recommend a bicycle lock around a thwart to your roof rack. Nearly every expensive composite canoe that I see at races will have a travel cover, especially if...

Years ago, shortly after the 3 mile Lows-Oswegatchie carry trail was cleared from the 1995 derecho blowdown, the downed logs were not cut with wide enough gaps for the width of my Canadian Walker wheels (the ancestor of the Suspenz style cart). one wheel or the other would climb up on or rub on...

Fixed center or side-side sliding seats?

I have a Beeasy. No idea who that really is, purchased online from AAFES. I bought it because it has relatively large digital numbers that make it easy to see with a quick glance as my paddling wrist is flashing by for less than a quarter second at canoe race cadence.

Thanks for the memory. My dad and I would go to a creek where he grew up and fish the babbling rocky stream there. Most trout caught were 'stockies" from a state fish hatchery. The minimum size to keep was also 6 inches with a maximum number of 10/day. We tried to throw the little ones back if...

I almost forgot to include that I was invited by the team coach to paddle during one evening training session with the Austtralian National Dragon Boat team on Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra during a business trip there.

New York State (Adirondacks, Catskills, St Lawrence River, Lake Ontario, and elsewhere), Ontario (Smiths Falls demo festival event), PA (race training), Ohio (when stuck there in the AF), Yukon Territory (racing), Alaska (second half of 1000 mile Yukon River race)

Emergency rescue service aside, I can't help but to mourn in a big way for wilderness lost. I spent many years enjoying and refining my precise and advanced backcountry land navigation skills in my more rewarding wilderness challenging travel days with map, compass, and my wits. I feel much the...

I have written before about the annual BSA high adventure wilderness trek leader/guide program. It is training at BSA National Camping School, Adirondack version, initially physically based at one of the local resident camps to train wilderness guides before scout season opens. I was a permanent...

I did try the 16.8 Cruiser that same demo day that I met with Bill and Charlie in Saranac Lake. Is there a 17.8 version? Being accustomed for years to paddling a 15.8 Rapidfire, it seemed there was just too much boat in front of me in the 16.8, and it did not want to perform as well for me as I...

i will admit that I may have paddled a kayak just once in my life to nowhere in particular, just to try it for a few minutes. Enough to know that I did not like it, as it does not fit my on water travel paddling likes in any way. I even dislike paddling my Hornbeck canoes, as due to seating...

Yes, I do have a 15-8 Cruiser. I bought it while waiting for Joe to take a year to complete my PB Shadow that my wife ordered as a surprise gift, since I had spoken of it for years to compliment my more stable Gen1 RapidFire. I finally did get the Shadow, with a custom higher than standard...

Normally you need to visit the local BSA council office to get a trip plan form. You then fill it out, indicating where you will go and that you will follow all state legal and BSA regulations and safety guidelines, and that everyone (adults included) will wear a PFD at all times. A council...

My first canoe was a lighweight hull Grumman that I bough in Columbus OH when I was in th AF there many years ago. After moving to NY (no stickers required), I carefully scraped the registration numbers off. But the awdul outline still remains visible. I don't use that canoe enough to worry...

While there certainly are a goodly number of younger folk, from their teens to the 30's, I have long noted that canoe races draw more than the expected fair share of older paddlers for an athletic event. One often seen older gentleman, Glenn, just retired in his mid 80's, due to a bum leg and...

I spent 30 years as a permanent staff instructor for the Adirondack Region BSA High Adventure guide training program, one segment of annual BSA National Camping School (NCS), so called the “Adirondack Voyageur guide program”. Eight days of training, about half in classroom, half in the field...

Correct, Alan. it can beccome very scary in a heartbeat on that downward heal slope.