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I just got off the phone with Joe @ PBW. Another Rapidfire will be brought into this world. In green, because as we all know those are the fastest.

I’m clearing out my boats to invest in a PBW Rapid Fire. Minor scuffs, nothing serious. Super lightweight boat but I’m too fat for something with such a high seat, and I don’t want to permanently modify this classic racing design. My bloat is your gain.

I’m selling all of my canoes (except the Old Town Pack). This is going toward my PBW Rapidfire fund! The boat is in great shape, has only been used a single digit number of times on smooth waters.

It was a good weekend for paddling with my daughters. My youngest had taken a liking to my OT Pack. And she brought her puppy along, who has never been in a boat before. He absolutely loved the adventure today and I think my daughter has a great paddling buddy. Yes, the dog is peculiar. Your...

I decided to mix hobbies last weekend. I do some model photography. And so I invited Karalee to go on a day trip with me. It’s a bit of a departure from the normal tripping photos, but it was kind of nice to put these pursuits together.

Among the array of things I'm selling, two of my boats are up for grabs in Raleigh, NC. They're both in great shape. Just getting rid of them to make room for a composite boat. * Old Town Next canoe * Dagger Axis 12.0 kayak

My bank account is still hurting from the Wenonah I picked up last month. But my Craigslist alert told me a canoe of interest was for sale in my area, so I high tailed it over to the other end of town to find what was a museum quality Old Town Pack for $400. Close inspection revealed that the...

I'm behind my father's house now, just outside of Philadelphia, drinking my coffee and looking down a hill I've admired since I was just a tot. My grandparents had done well for themselves in the 1960s and had a big house built on a high hill, looking down over a little pond. My grandparents...

There's a fella who posted a couple of boats on our local Craigslist who lives only a few miles from me... I think some of the math is funny, but I can reconcile against online specs. I'm leaving shortly to go have a look-see. I notice that buying both boats together is more $$$ than buying...

Has anyone here spent time paddling among the Ghost Fleet of the Potomac? A friend of mine from the area suggested that I go up there and check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2h3oaqimCw

A mysterious envelope arrived from Germany today, provoked no doubt by my father who told me nothing more than "expect a strange envelope to arrive in the mail, but don't discard it without looking inside". What rested within was a sticker, and on that sticker was profound wisdom. If this...

Around 4 years ago, Old Town started showing off a new play on its 11 foot Pack canoe. The "Pack Element" will look an awful lot like the current Old Town Next. But unlike the 13 foot Next, the Pack Element was 11 feet long. The Pack that it was based on was said to weigh 33 pounds in Royalex...

I took a "mental health" day from the craziness of work yesterday to "go to church" so to speak... my religion being paddling, and my denomination being seventh day canoeist. The local parish I visited is the Neuse River, which flows through Raleigh. This wasn't a trip so much as a rec paddle. A...

Last week I picked up a late 1980's Old Town Camper 16 in Royalex layup. My mother had bought it new for my father way back. He'd used it 2 or 3 times and left it in the garage. So I took the wife & kids out for a recreational paddle today. Wife & I were in the OT Camper with my puppy, Otto...

Tonight's project... removing some whispbars that fit between the rails and replacing them with the widest round bars that the law will allow. Imagine my disappointment when the svelt Whispbars were too narrow for the free boat sitting in my old man's garage (Old Town Camper 16 RX). I could fit...

I'm not really looking for packing out for 5+ nights at this point in time. But I'm in a position shortly to go on 2-3 night trips. For the kitchen pack, we do have black bears & coyotes here, and red wolves are coming back as well... so I'm guessing a food barrel is the way to go there...

I don't have a Facebook account, but I went to their Facebook page since Swift seems to post there pretty heavily. Mmmmmmm purdy. I like Mike McCrea's idea of having this hull done up in a solo configuration.

I saw this on Vimeo and I don't think it's been shared here yet. It's sort of a short film / music video set in Montana. Enjoy. https://vimeo.com/87292593

After seeing GGTBod's wood stove in his recent trip videos, I had to get my hands on one. Free of any ads (by me, anyway) or affiliate links, here's a quicky writeup with some video and photos. Bottom line: I like it enough that I'll probably use it for trips where I have the time to collect...

I've been quietly nerding out on the possibilities here without having good access to actually test paddle many boats beyond the venerable Old Town Discovery and the new Next. What I'm working up towards is being able to make a trip down the Neuse River of North Carolina from just downstream of...