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I was 22 when I got my first canoe, which I bought outright, brand new. I started canoeing earlier, but borrowed or rented boats before getting my own. I wanted to do a long canoe trip after graduating from college, so ordered a custom fiberglass one from a builder in Chicago shortly before I...

Chip, I've seen a canoe like that before, but not sure of the brand name. Try Lakefield, which was located in Ontario somewhere, likely now long defunct? (sort of like the canoe)

Thanks for these, Glenn. I attended a weekend seminar taught by Tom I think back in the early 1990s. One thing I remember about it was after the first day on the water I was so sore from doing moves I was unaccustomed to that I couldn't sleep much that night. Part of that was my arthritis, but...

And have a spare speaker (from Piragis) ready for when the one broadcasting is smashed to pieces with a canoe paddle? < Another Huge Grin >

Chip, I've been in both Moore's and Kraus Hotsprings on the Nahanni run, which weren't real clear either time we were there (I've done the Nahanni twice). Kraus's water was clearer as the river comes up fairly regularly and flushes the riverside pools out, but there was lots of algae in it...

My last Grand Canyon trip was 2002, and that was before the release of the beetle as far as I know (around 2010? I'd have to look). On the Green it's a tammie reduction, not an elimination. My guess would be that in Canyonlands, it's down to half or less of what was there 15 years ago. Still...

There's basically no gradient on the lower Green. If I remember right, I think all the way from Green River town up at the I-70 bridge down to the Colorado River Confluence, it's only about a foot a mile, foot and a half at the most. That's basically because continual slippage (over geologic...

Regular isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol - "rubbing" implies elbow grease?) works on Douglas fir pitch, which I assume is similar enough to pine pitch and should be harmless to resins used in composite boat hulls. Good luck. I mainly use it on my hands after cutting firewood (we heat our...

Hey, Glenn, do "soft" decks count in the "no decks" rule? (I'm joking here). Gotta keep warm somehow when paddling north of the Mason-Dixon Line.

The first book of Patterson's I ever ran across was Finlay's River, which I checked out of the library when I was in college. It was the only title of his they had if I remember correctly. I ran across Dangerous River much later, and as a matter of fact have run the Nahanni twice now. I ran...

I'll have to see if I can find a copy of Davis's treatise. I didn't know about it. Thanks for mentioning. I know that Ray had help getting up to Virginia Falls and above. He describes getting up as far as Rabbit Kettle Lake, mostly through his thinly disguised handling of the location of Hole...

In another thread I mentioned the works of R. M. Patterson, most famous as the author of his adventures and exploration on the Nahanni River in 1927, which I'm sure many members here know of. I did a cursory search for his name here on CanoeTripping.net and turned up very little, though I could...

Most members here would know of R.M. (Raymond Murray) Patterson who wrote "The Dangerous River" about his adventures in the Nahanni Country. Some may not be familiar with his other writings. He's not really an "instructive" writer in that he's offering advice for canoeing, though he does...

Rubby, Probably vinylester, almost certainly not epoxy. Still, I'd use epoxy for any actual repairs needed as it usually adheres better to other resin systems. Not everyone may agree. I don't know for sure which it used, just a gut feeling. Someone else may know for sure.

Keeled, I have dealt with Tent Pole Technologies several times, but then I'm local to them, live "across the river" (even though it's about 30 miles between us), so I've driven there and one time had them do the job in front of me, other times they would need more time, so I left my poles and...

Froggio, 3/16th's is pretty much the standard diameter of the pop rivets used for gunnels on boats I've seen. What size drill bit did you use to drill out the original rivets? That's the size rivet diameter you need. Length of the rivets needed would depend on if it's a thin section boat hull...

I follow sprint racing somewhat, and yes same-side paddling C2 is done, just not real often. You'll see it both men and women. It usually happens when two really good C-boaters want to race together but they paddle on the same side. More correction, but they still make the length of the...

Scoutergriz, good advice for Froggio. Better than mine. Thanks.

Gamma, You can stretch the glass on the outside of a canoe hull if there aren't any concavities in it. That "great concavity" on the inside of a strip canoe or the inside of a female mold for making a fiberglass canoe means it wouldn't work there. Doesn't that at least partially negate the...