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Just returned from 2000 mile round trip to Atikaki PP in Manitoba. Driving 2020 Dodge Durango 3.7lL engine. I wanted to minimize the...

From today's paddle on Blackburn Bay near Casey Key.

Friday July 10: My plan was to leave Toronto mid-afternoon and hope to avoid the worst of the usual traffic along with the hordes going...

Friday July 10: My plan was to leave Toronto mid-afternoon and hope to avoid the worst of the usual traffic along with the hordes going...

I simply use a beveled scrap strip, to tuck in one side, then the other. Wear good gloves ( Nitrile ). Important to wet the cloth in...

So the weight of thickened epoxy would be more than a slim cedar inner stem. No clean way to do it trying to get a wet piece of glass...

It generally gets filled with thickened epoxy before glassing, which likely erases most of the weight savings. It can be a pretty messy...

How easy is it though, to glass that tight inner V? In a clean manner? Or do people worry? I thought of a slim WRC inner stem only for...

Yes, alternating sides, interweaving the strips (I use a chainsaw file to cut the cove into the lower strip that runs past the stem)...

Three dams have been removed on the DesMoines. One South of Humboldt ( Corn Belt ) Two in Fort Dodge. No more drownings from those...

All the dams around me in the Midwest were built to run mills of various types which are all long gone. They're small concrete low head...

Just returned from 2000 mile round trip to Atikaki PP in Manitoba. Driving 2020 Dodge Durango 3.7lL engine. I wanted to minimize the...

I mentioned my recent visit to the Teton River in another thread. There were significantly more people on the river than the last time I...

I just used original Weldwood contact cement.

It generally gets filled with thickened epoxy before glassing, which likely erases most of the weight savings. It can be a pretty messy...