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Robbie Frenette from Raquette River Outfitters showed my wife an easy way to get the boat on her shoulders. He just rolled the boat over on the ground pick up the nose of the boat and just walked backwards until the yoke was on his shoulders. No putting the boat to her hip then hoisting it up on...

One of the problems with the fabric yokes is that they lay on your neck and your head is up inside the boat. The nice thing about the yokes that yknpdlr and I use is that the weight is carried on our shoulders and your head isn’t up inside the boat. Easy on easy off.

Now in my mid 70’s we started using portage yokes. My Northstar Trillium is easy but my wife’s Placidboat Oseetah was a challenge until I came up with this solution.

Only good thing about the cold is it may reduce the tick population.

I have Petzl headlamps and only used them when getting caught out late while hiking but now I use them a lot around the house, working on the car, going up in the attic, etc.

My understanding is that if the tick is not discovered quickly, removed properly and treated with Doxycycline the Lyme will be with one forever. It can then rear its ugly symptoms later in life. My sister and her husband in their late 70’s both caught Lyme from their two dogs that they let lay...

Red Leaf Designs makes great products.

Hopefully it won’t be so hot, 2025 was a hot summer in the NE, and I would like to try a tandem canoe with my wife. We currently use pack canoes but as we age it might be easier to keep up with the younger paddler’s with us paddling a small tandem. What do you experienced tandem paddler’s think...

Thanks Joe, and Merry Christmas to you and your family.

Red sky in the morning, sailors warning!

We used Canoe Country Outfitters in Ely, MN, nice people.

We didn’t get out much at all this year, the high daytime temperatures, two trips abroad and life just didn’t allow us much time to paddle.

Does that Spitfire have a foam core?

What tandems are you looking at?

Wow, that is terrible. Why would a manufacturer release that piece of garbage? They should have destroyed that canoe, never released to the public!

Yakima makes the goal post attachment.

ABT, go to a place that caters to artists and they will have Sharpie markers in colors that aren’t the norm and you will find a permanent marker that is close to or a near exact match, they will hide those scratches.

Joe, are you bringing it up to Fish Creek this weekend?

I am not seeing any state laws regarding roof rack widths but the legal vehicle width is 8.5’ and under.