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I just came down through that area from Canada. I do not need another canoe either. No.

I can confirm the high gas prices in Quebec. Not twice as much, but almost.

Naps. I also grow tropical fruits and vegetables and it’s a constant war with the invasive exotics. I help out families with special needs. I play banjo and piano and write.

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Here’s the two canoes ready to go. I saw the Mad River for the first time in 30 years. It’s a Freedom! I remember we did some not easy rapids in places where the only reference was the topo maps. I think we bought this boat new, a blem. It brings back great memories.

I got similar information. I waited until after I crossed the border to fill my little tiny ziplock bags. This is the first time I used them instead of pill boxes, and they worked great. I always double and triple bag my meds. I also get my doctor to give me copies of all my prescriptions so...

Headwaters of the rivière Mégiscane.

I’d like to see the picture of that! 😀

Sorry. I should have typed Yakima. My piano is a Yamaha, so you never know. ;)

Thank you, Alan I just looked them up. I’m not sure what the difference is, but that link comes up with $150, which seems unreasonable. I found them also for $78 for the set of 4 which seemed a standard price. Yamaha must have some kind of lock on the pricing. FYI note: Yamaha charges about...

I do attached my canoe in the manner you have pictured. But the extra security of the load stops has really helped me. Thank you.

Thank you all. I’ve ordered the 78 inch Yakima bars from - of all places - Target. You can get them at REI and many other stores, but none could deliver within a week. Now, where can I get, or more important, what do you call the stabilizer that fits on either side of the canoe gunwale when it...

I’m currently driving back to Florida from Quebec with my Colden Dragonfly on a Yakima rack. It is 29 inches wide, the boat not the rack. In NC I plan to pick up a royalex MR Explorer which google says is 35 inches wide. Neither Yakima nor etrailer.com will sell me the bars long enough to...

Gorgeous color on a gorgeous boat.

I bought some acetone and the goo gone stuff. I was going to try the acetone first, but I set it down somewhere and 10 minutes later could not find it. The goo gone stuff worked very well, but you do have to wash it off with hot, soapy water, per the instructions. Thank you again, folks, for...

Please do those write ups. I practiced whitewater skills on the New River. I don’t remember exactly where but there was a class II ledge we were practicing on over and over. It was the first time I watched a solo paddler going upstream in the rapids, eddy by eddy.

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With the Colden Dragonfly I am kneeling all the time and at first I thought this would be difficult. Au contraire, I can kneel for hours paddling that canoe. For some reason it "fits" me. I wear socks or neoprene booties and my feet are extended flat out toward the stern. This is not...

I started out like that many decades ago, but it did not take all that long in real wilderness situations to let that go. If I have been coddling my paddles for hours through rapidly alternating deep and shallow waters, I give up and push off with my paddle. I go faster with less effort. I...