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I don't have any idea why I had my wallet with me, as we started doing Green River trips in Utah back in the mid '90s, and the outfitter we usually used there did the same thing, collected items you list and locked them in the safe there on the premesis before shuttling us to the river. The...

Traveler and CTC: This may have just been a "typo", but in case it's a misunderstanding, the carbon doesn't actually have anything to do with the hardening of the epoxy. Epoxy does take a long time to fully cure (weeks, months), though you can speed the process by heating in a process referred...

BF: I think the "Royalex" and "under 50 pounds" are probably mutually exclusive? Possibly not, me also not up on all the models available now or earlier. There might be some at around 50 pounds or just over it. Good luck in your search.

In 2015 we were canoeing with another couple on a fly-in trip on the Gataga-Kechika Rivers in NE British Columbia. Several days into the trip we had a semi-rainy day where we donned our rainsuits for a short period while on the water. My wife and I keep that gear plus some other essentials in...

Congrats on a project done quickly. It likely would have taken me a year to get it all done, and I'm talking just the one-off "slip" hull off the outside, I take it that the extra layer(s) in the seats area stiffened things up there sufficiently? That was my big worry. Less of a problem with...

My wife and I did the Lower Canyons of the Rio Grande in late Feb-early March on 2019, though in my opinion it doesn't pass your test of few signs of camping along it. There was an awful lot of garbage along the river on our run, most with Spanish writing on it, admittedly, especially in the...

Welcome to the circle. I remember Hyperform from the early- into mid-'70s, don't remember how long they lasted. I don't remember ever seeing any Kevlar in any of the ones I saw, not that many. The ones I saw mostly were the kits they offered, of hull and deck where the buyer had to seam the...

Time will destroy but people rebuild, sometimes just copycat syndrome. Sort of like buildings in a city, just on a smaller scale.

Man, it's probably been 30 years since I've been to Willapa Bay. Thanks for the reminder.

Knees, there are two kinds of paddlers. Those who have swam already, and those who are going to. It's easy, I've done it a hundred times.

I'd be surprised if I haven't told this story already here on the site somewhere. I was living in Chicago and going to college about 300 miles away in the early 1970s when I bit the bullet. A few years earlier, 1965, I'd done a church canoe trip where a couple of the preachers of the Rock River...

They look like ceiling shop light reflections to me.

Jm, I've never paddled a Prodigy, but if I didn't have a whitewater boat and wanted to try out what it was all about, if this one wasn't too expensive, I'd pick it up just to get on the water and seeit was something I like (by the way, I do). In the meantime I'd possibly keep looking for maybe...

I'm not gonna add more vids to the pile here as I don't think many of these Youtube celebs have anything that can easily be listened to in the car on the way to and from trips without some work on your own. Ladyva does have some albums of her boogie woogie music (and others?) out that could be...

Boogie woogie fanciers will already know of these performers, even though they don't do any "by the crick" performing (that I've noticed). From England, based in the London area, are Brendan Kavanagh and Terry Miles, who have a large following, both playing public pianos, I think mostly in...

Excedrin headache #537!

Is there any chance you could get it out to Oregon for a short trial period? I wouldn't mind adding a scratch or two (just short, very superficial ones, I promise!) from our predominant basalt rock formations just to add to the character of the hull. I'll even offer to pay for one or two of the...

Larry, I'm not seeing what I'd refer to as the equivalent of actual runs in old nylons, which would be missing yarns or what's known as "picks" in fiberglass-ese. What you show is where the cloth has been snagged and distorted by rough handling somewhere in either manufacture or pulling the...

Jim , that pink floored canoe is pretty at least. You need an energizer bunny on the bow deck, or maybe a pink panther? <G > Rig a small bowsprit and fasten the pink doll underneath it! That foam is polystyrene and has poor shear strength, likely your problem. It probably failed at the foam...

Is the stripper for the out-of-state kids and you're keeping composite for yourself? You mentioned in the thread this was excerpted from that you're in Iowa and the kids are in Minnesota. That doesn't mean that adults won't be in either boat at times, so I'd build somewhat for that, maybe just...