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Hey folks, can we re-read the first post in this thread and get this back on track, please? The main question was whether you ever carried a gun and you feelings related to that. Please let the off track other things drop and stick to the topic. Thanks, Lance

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Good morning. @Robin is on both sites as well.

Next Sunday, June 5th, REI will have the ALPS King Kong chair for only $44.73 USD. It's a really stout camp chair for those base camp days when you would rather not squat around the campfire..... https://www.rei.com/rei-garage/deal-of-the-day Lance

Are you paying for it? If it's there I didn't see it. But if it's there and you pay for it I'll go back for it. :D By the way, I mentioned your name..... they charged me double. Umm... not really but we did agree that you were an interesting character. I got foot brace kits for the...

We're in Ephrata, PA for the weekend visiting our youngest son and his family to celebrate his son's first birthday. Nancy threatened certian of my body parts if this trip became the 3rd (4th?) trip in a row to end with another canoe on the roof rack. As a consolation, I'm headed to Blue...

Sad news indeed. Well, I'll be keeping the Northwoods for some time yet. And I pretty much have always figured that any drive, regardless of distance, is "local" for the right canoe (or some other things) so a drive to Savannah or Knoxville for the right boat wouldn't bother me much. I see...

I can believe that as there's a nice Mad River canoe in Prescott at a very low (by our North Carolina standards) price. Lance

Hi Larry $650 is still pretty reasonable for a Royalex boat in well kept condition especially as that's about 1/3 or less of the cost of a new canoe of similar weight..... and more likely 1/4 to 1/5 the price of a new one as there aren't a lot of lightweight solo boats around.. And an hour...

I know that you asked about a stand but depending on how much height you have to work with overhead storage can be handy as it preserves floor and wall space. We have four canoes, all 16-18' long, 24' and 28' extension ladders all hung in our basement with the hoists shown in post #9 here...

Welcome from North Carolina. We used to have a farm outside Auburn and I attended St John Fisher in the mid-1970s. And our daughter is a RN graduate from Nazareth with one of our sons having a double IT major from RIT. It seems that a lot of our money went to schools in Rochester..... We...

Salty, the Sailrites are copies as are many (most) of the industrial machines out there. There's not a lot new under the sun in sewing machines anymore aside from computerized controls. I know folks that can quote chapter and verse as to what machines are copies or which other machines *wholly...

Good morning, Blane We're in Pinnacle, North Carolina about 5 miles from the peak at Pilot Mountain. Lance

As a general rule for when I buy plastic stuff I only buy ITW FASTEX hardware. I have some of my old military gear with those buckles that's been in use for more than 30 years and the only buckle I ever replaced was cracked when it was crushed in the armored hatch of the commanders station on...

Thanks to all for the kind comments. I assure you that as I'm still pretty new to sewing and that this is the first really big hunk of canvas and leather I've wrestled around the sewing table the longer seams especially are nothing like professionally straight and even..... I can't speak to...

Well, back in October(?) I washed some 18 ounce #8 canvas to preshrink it and then ironed it and cut out most of the parts for a 70 liter(ish) basic envelope pack loosely based on the Duluth #4 Traditional pack. I used a Sew-Go pattern and general instructions set I bought from Outdoor...

We use a Ford Expedition EL (the long wheelbase one) for toting canoes, towing the camper etc. It's kind of fancy for bouncing around the mountains here but it's a workhorse. I use a couple sticks of Unitstrut to make a temporary wider rack for two canoes..... which is pretty rare for us...

Riverguy, please let me extend my condolences to you and your family. Where in Virginia are you? We're near Pilot Mountain in North Carolina, an hour south of the intersection of I-81 and I-77. There's a lot of Virginia I'd love to paddle and I think I need to pick your brain sometime. As...

For those interested in adding a tumpline, Duluth and others sell them at reasonable prices. I think Duluth get $15 for theirs. And I have a pattern for sewing one out of webbing and canvas. If anyone is interested I' post the cut piece sizes and sewing instructions. Lance

Johnny, I have a pair of industrial machines, a Consew 226R flatbed with reverse and a Consew 227 cylinder bed machine (no reverse :() and am still learning to sew well. I'm working my way through the different styles of bags, zippers etc to get a feel for making the patterns and then the bags...