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Let me add my accolades as well... Been sort of on a months long forced hiatus from CT due to various issues I encountered...but kept reading on and off... and very happy to see it with a new life, new look and shiny new varnish on all the exposed wood... Congratulation and well done!

I am all in favor of the changes and thank those who have put the time and effort into researching the alternatives... today is the first time I have been able to log in for about 90 days. Glad to be able to to do that again, though I am completely in the dark about what has changed for my...

This experiment better conclude quickly....I bet a half plate of my wife's legendary chocolate brownies* on whether Mike's concoction (and patience) or LanceR oxy solution....would kill the STANK in these darn barrels. I wrote down the name of who I am betting is going to win on a paper...

I'm guessing that my similar vintage Bill's Bag, ....might have suffered a similar fate...it has been on a high shelf in my brother's outdoor shed in a comfy neighborhood in Anchorage, waiting patiently for it's owner...and for a return float trip on the North Fork of the 40 Mile River,... (has...

That should be a good read, got some really good reviews. And the author, heck, who is that guy?! Sir John might well be quite happy up in that place where old sailors pass on to; realizing that folks are still fascinated with his trials and tribulations up in the Arctic some 170+ years...

Nice little holiday story...good simple message to keep in mind. I like the reference to the 'dooryard', that gives it some additional Maine authenticity. Happy Holidays!

Sending you a PM.

I was reminded of one of the most fascinating books I have ever read, "Skeletons on the Zahara", Dean King. It's the true life story of some American merchant sailors, shipwrecked off the barren and hostile coast of W Africa around 1815 and their harrowing enslavement by Berber tribesman, who...

Wow, that is some trip, some scenery! Great story, looking forward to more!

I am eager was well to follow your journey, pics or not. (but a good start on that first one!) as I had read a travel journal some years back about a guy who sailed several summers on Slave Lake. It was hard for me to wrap my head around the huge spaces, relatively untouched and untraveled.

I had seen the new Pamlico at a nearby outfitter and between the garish red color and the modern outfitting, up on the rack it was hard to tell the differences between our 10 year old+ green boat and their new one. I read your post with a considerable amount of interest, as our guests typically...

All you Ford Ranger fans waiting the release of this new vehicle can at least enjoy pics and do some mental exercise with the pricing that has been released. And start breaking out those jars of saved coins...

This is just like looking in the mirror...scary stuff, indeed. But laugh out loud funny. Especially the part about the sheep and the white paint. Hey, that reminds me of a story, it goes like this, "....

Very NICE!

That's the crown on the day right there, for me. Pure paddle porn. What a FLEET of stunning boats!

C'mon man, FOCUS!!! Just bring the darn (chocolate to be sure) pudding along with you and work it off as you do a glorious paddle (suggested over my shoulder by someone in the cheap seats)... and send an action pic.

Thanks for weighing in, again. Did you do the topside or underside of the fly...I have wondered a bit about that since the rain hits the topside of any tarp or fly material but then hits the impermeable barrier of the coating and runs off or rolls off (if the DWR is still hanging about)...the...

C'mon people, where is your SPIRIT...?! It's National Canoe Day (who officially proclaimed this I have no clue) and I am hoping to feel the urge and the possibility of putting paddle to water later on today, the gods willing and the creek don't rise... Who else knows about this day or planned...

I am hoping someone has a better solution, store bought or homemade like the silicone and mineral spirits seems to be for seam sealing. I have a few that the DWR is really gone on the surface (which is what cause it to bead so readily when new) and at least one Sierra Designs tent fly that has...

Reading through some recent posts on giving life back to favorite tents, tarps, etc. And in particular Mike McCrea's recent thread on seam sealing and such ("Refurbishing a Favorite old tent")...got me to thinking that I have had more issue recently with some tents that the fly and/or separate...