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thanks - nice work. I don't have much in the way of machine skills ;-) build you a rod, repair a reel, new gunwales on a canoe, that I can do.. fix a fence, mend a dent, I got lots of experience..

I'm interested - what did you put together ? mine is a Lowrance Fish Hunter, a little buoy you throw in the water, with an app on the phone to show the results. it's nearly useless ;-) So looking for something portable that works a bit better..

as a 6'2" marathon runner I can confirm.. from my trip report, "The rain began, driven hard by an upstream wind into our faces, like being pelted with small cold pellets. The temperature was medium 40s. As this all soaked slowly into us, on a river which was snow yesterday, it became...

when I priced new racks for a Ford Maverick, Yakima thought it was perfectly reasonable to ask $1800 for them. Hahaha no. Still have the round Yakima racks with rain-gutter towers from my 82 Econoline, I found with my current pickup you can mount some c-channel to the camper shell and the...

biggest problem I think will be making sure the ingredients are evenly split between the two meals.. we are canoeing, there is plenty of water for cleanup. I wouldn't hesitate to do the pot meal. My wife dehydrates meals for us and we prepare them in a pot, the cleanup is not onerous. like...

article was a bit horrifying for me, felt like my brother.. I'm 63, the coffee table in our first apartment was our first canoe, worked both to paddle and for entertaining. Used to run marathons, triathlons, etc. I took a sit-in kayak out in Greece once to look at some dolphins with my kids...

as with fishing - the best time to go fish/paddle, is whenever you can..

also interested in what folks do for the spiderwebbing.. on my old Seda Scout kevlar, I tried a light coat of epoxy on a couple of areas. It looks pretty bad despite my best efforts to blend it in..

I have a Wenonah Vagabond, 14'6" and 40lb, which I absolutely love while hating the Wenonah adjustable seat it came with.. the seat rattles and bangs a lot, isn't very comfortable, and doesn't let me kneel as it's too low in front. Has anyone replaced this seat ? It's mounted on steel plates, so...

Sweet Composites is Davey Hearn, a legend in slalom racing.. bought my kevlar and dynel and peelply from them, good supplier. I have a kevlar boat, SS from Empty Canoes in MT. The builder recommended kevlar patches for interior, s-glass on exterior. The recent slalom races at Wausau WI were...

this would be my concern.. my boats always live either indoors or in the shade, have 25 year old boats that are still tough and resilient. A friend's Caption with Royalex hull stored in the sun, has cracked pretty much every time they hit a rock with it.. it's mostly G-flex and Kevlar patches at...

always wanted one of those.. but several days' drive from CO, just can't do it sadly. It's a very generous offer thank you..

I have no bear fears when backpacking in CO, because the bears are hunted here in most places, and fear man. In Yellowstone and Grand Tetons I'm frankly spooked.. those bears see a hundred hikers a day, never been hunted. We're just lucky that so far they havent' figured out that hikers are made...

that's the N. Platte, in Colorado.. the put-in is in CO, take-out in WY.. We used to do this every June. Then there were low-water years, followed by water so high the river was closed, then there was a big burn and the river is full of strainers from blowdowns.. it might be another year or two.

can confirm.. my MR Explorer was a shell with rotten gunwales, overgrown by vines, when I picked it up free off Craigslist. After repairing multiple cold cracks and replacing the gunwales, it is a fair 65lb. That's the upper limit of what I am willing to carry anymore. In fact we used this on...

that's much better performance than I have seen anywhere else.. typically ChatGPT will just make stuff up and confidently assert falsehoods. On a triathlon forum someone asked it to produce arguments for and against a somewhat technical question. Its response was some bland anodyne boilerplate...

oh it's a lot worse - the machinery is full of proprietary software, and you're not allowed to repair your own tractor as a result. The push back on this has just started, CO passed a Right to Repair bill this month. The electric pickups seem like a good idea for farming actually - charge every...

great, now there's coffee all over my screen.. ;-) that's the bottom line on introduced/non-native species. The long-established balance of the ecosystem is overwhelmed and descends into chaos, with all kinds of unpredictable effects, most of them undesirable.

I've used kevlar to repair a much-cracked Royalex hull. At that point it seemed the consensus was kevlar with G-flex epoxy, single patch. Others like 3 layers of 6oz fiberglass instead. To me it seems that would build up quite a lot of epoxy over the patch, so I went with Kevlar Aramid cloth...

I got a Vagabond for a more efficient flatwater boat than the old 1976 Explorer, still having a bit more stability than the pure flatwater speedsters. So far liking it a lot, haven't had time for a long trip yet but it fishes well..