Thanks, I talked tripping with a few folks, one had done the Connecticut River from northern Vermont to Mass, in a 1915 BN Morris wood canvas canoe, with his son.
He also told me Connecticut is working on "primitive canoe camping" sites along the river, which would be pretty nice. I met alot of folks who canoed Maine and NY, and the BWCA, great tripping story's.
I also spent about a 1/2 hour talking to a Connecticut Game Warden, he has an Roylex Old Town but plans on getting a wood canvas canoe down the road. He showed me pictures of him and his 12 year old daughter camping for a 4 day deer hunt someplace in Ct., with a wall tent from Cabelas. His daughter harvested a nice spike buck. He had to feed the stove every 2 hours to keep her warm, but he said it was worth it. Nice guy, good Dad.
It was a good day talking canoes and meeting folks, it snowed heavy on the way home and my canoes are full of road salt, both in and out, going to fire up the wood stove in the shop and clean them up shortley