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Pretty simple question: How do you pronounce portage? I've used Merriam Webster as the source for the phonetic spelling of the two most common pronunciations. I tried to embed the audio of each pronunciation example from m-w.com directly in this post but couldn't figure out how to do so...

I'm heading to Maine in early July for a trip from Allagash Lake to Chase Rapids. We'll put in at Johnson Pond, or the southern end of Allagash Lake, and take out at Bissonette Bridge, on the Allagash River. The vast majority of the trip will be on Lakes (Allagash, Chamberlain, Eagle...

I own a pair of Old Town Trippers. I purchased them two years apart from one another, from a gentlemen who inherited them from his father. His father had been a submarine engineer, working out of the Naval Submarine Base in New London, CT. The first Tripper, I found in a craigslist ad and...

This is not my listing. https://capecod.craigslist.org/boa/d/eastham-vintage-old-town-canoe/7810678219.html I considered going to take a look myself. Very tempting, but I'm not yet in the ready-to-care-for a wood canvas canoe stage of my life just yet, so I figured someone else on CT.net...

I was posting in the hatchet/saw thread and explained that I like to kneel when using my hatchet. This is only comfortable because I wear pants with an integrated pocket at the knee to hold a piece of closed cell foam in just the right place for a little extra protection. The pocket is...

This is a “hookaroon.” I was inspired to make it after seeing one in a YouTube video of Maine Guides making a shore lunch. I love it and you can imagine its myriad uses, including the water bucket in the background, that goes in the fire.

I'm taking my boys camping this weekend. But I live on Nantucket and can't get a reservation to get my truck off the island because its the end of the summer season and the hoards are leaving, so the vehicle ferry system is backed up. That means I can't bring my own canoes as planned. My...

A video about traditional canoes from my neck of the woods, where the boats were more often used for in-shore salt water travel and fishing. It would have taken serious guts to make an open-water crossing to Nantucket (twenty-seven miles offshore) in one of these boats.

I have a '23 Ford F150 Lightning and used it for a canoe trip for first time in early April. I drove from southeast Massachusetts to the Adirondacks: 358 miles, taking the northern route through New Hampshire and Vermont. We put in on the Raquette River, at Axton Landing. I love my truck, but...

I've just begun to rebuild a Bell Wildfire/Yellowstone RX that I was gifted last summer, from @saltandsky. He was kind enough to offer it up for free on CT.net and I jumped at the chance. Here's the original listing. If memory serves, Tom had acquired the canoe with significantly deteriorated...

I've done a lot of paddling in wetsuits and I'd like to not do that anymore! :LOL: Having resolved to take the plunge (pun intended) and get a drysuit, I imagine that I'll be able to take advantage of seasonal sales as the winter ends and be ready for next year. Any insight and advice as to...

I have a 70s era Royalex Tripper that I bought a couple years ago. It was mint, but certainly looked like it had been left out over the years: faded colors, gunwales, etc. The exterior vinyl layer seemed quite soft in comparison to newer Royalex. I paddled it empty many times that first year I...

I go on a canoe trip with a reasonably experienced group of men every year (we average about ten people in five tandem boats) and the mantle of trip-leader gets passed around between a smaller contingent. This year, a friend from Richmond, Virginia is organizing the trip and thinks he might...

Craigslist listing (not mine) that has five wood canoes. Poor images but thought someone on here might be interested. https://capecod.craigslist.org/boa/d/brewster-canoes/7637215180.html