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I'm glad Jerry made an exception for you. It's obvious why your daughter would want an Old Town and Jerry probably thought it was the way it should be. Good call on the half ribs, especially if you're going without a keel.

I'm sorry I'm going to miss the assembly this year, I'd like to be there for that. Funny thing, last fall Jerry told me he doesn't do restorations anymore, just new builds. Maybe when he got caught up he had a change of heart. He also had some medical issues recently, so that could have...

Even if the Lund has does good secondary stability, which you would find out with Alan's test recommended above, it may not relieve the uneasy feeling caused by the tipsiness problem. It may also not prevent a capsize if things go bad. I was out in one of my large tandems with a partner in the...

I really enjoyed my visit to Island Falls Canoe meeting and speaking with Jerry. He is one heck of a nice guy and without a doubt more enthusiastic about canoes than anyone I ever met. He told me he hopes to be building canoes into his mid nineties like Joe Seliga. I sure hope he makes it...

Here are a couple from last nights moon rise in the Poconos and another from a few days ago.

That will help minimize the twitchiness for for sure but it will also change the trim so it's not comparing apples to apples. I do think everything said above is true but I still think there is some truth to my premise that trim can affect stability. The Seliga is the only boat I have that...

Yeah, I think that it is the change of the hull profile. With the weight spread more evenly the hull presents a more narrow profile and that narrowness is what made it tippy. Thinking back, the boat is twitchy with just my wife and I in it without a load. OTOH, a few days before I was out with a...

I've been paddling my Seliga Tripper mostly solo so far this season. I paddle from the stern seat with some light ballast (20-25lbs.) either in the bow or right behind the bow seat. I find that adding the ballast eliminates the twitchiness in initial stability that this boat has, probably caused...

The smoke is pretty noticeable in NE Pa, but I can't smell it yet.

I noticed that Sue paddled her boat backwards even though she probably had no intention of sitting on the bow seat. Kneeling on the either thwart would give you the same trim, so why paddle the boat backwards?

This one is from a caribou hunt back in 2001 in Western Alaska.

The smoke is barely noticeable in the Poconos, but it did effect the sunrise this morning.

That does appear to be a good deal.

I think shorter is better. When I'm in the stern with someone in the bow I can lay my 6'6" rod across the thwarts without it reaching the bow seat. I'm a lot less concerned it will get broke than I am with my longer rods. In this photo (taken this AM) you can see my spinning rod on the left...

I paid about 60 bucks for one from MSR. It has a smaller burner and one of the arms that you set the pot on does not open fully anymore and doesn't hold my pot level. It is because of a bent tab that I probably bent it trying to get it back into the tiny plastic storage box. I'm sure they'll fix...

Stripperguy, it would be nice to know where that spring is, I'll have to look for it next time. Are those sites available on a first come basis with no registration? The turnout I stayed at was not a campsite. It was the next to last one before the turn off to the lower dam and there was a...

This would have been a good trip for bringing a w/c boat but it was a spur of the moment thing and I didn't know where I was going and wanted to keep my options open. Besides that, the Seliga was already on the truck. Since I've had my 18' OT Guide repaired and recanvassed, without a keel and...

The bugs weren't too bad. If I had been a little smarter I could have prevented most of my bites, which were a lot. I'm not used to black flys and I didn't see them or feel them entering my unbuttoned shirt bitting the crap out of me. I didn't know I had a problem until I saw what looked like a...

That was quite a trip Erica. Twenty two days is a long time to be out there. And then have to deal with the cold and rain that far North in September could be brutal. I think you made a good decision. Sorry about what you had to deal with when you got home but I'm happy you that doing well now.

Yeah, the boats I've raised the seats on were stable tandems. I haven't raised them to the point where I loose secondary stability and don't recommend it. I imagine you can get a lot of lean with a 30" wide boat but not much you can do about comfort.