Recent content by Robin

Beautiful canoe, such nice craftsmanship, I hope it gives you many days of happy tripping. BTW, Nice looking shop.

I’d paint the canoe with a quart of Epifanes paint, (a quart will give you 3 coats, using a 6” foam roller and scuffing between coats) and I’m the type that would remove those aluminum gunnels and make ash gunnels, then varnish them with Epifanes varnish.

Since Duluth Pack plastic liners are extra long I just roll a neck ( I guess a gooseneck like Pseudonym mentioned) and tie them with a lite but strong string, wrapping the string 5-6 times and finish with a bow tie. I had my #3 Duluth Pack get stuck in a wrapped canoe under water, then removed...

I use plastic bag sold by Duluth Pack inside a canvas Duluth Pack for clothes, sleeping bag, and anything else that I need to keep dry. I used to use two plastic bags per canvas Duluth Pack but have since gone to one plastic bag. I have patched the plastic bags inside and out with duct tape with...

I finished it this week, I guess it was the best thing I ever saw and enjoyed on YouTube, by far the best canoe related video. Every time things got tough and the canoe was taking a beating I said to myself “can’t do that with a wood canvas canoe”. I agree with my friend Gerald, I watched it on...

I get their newsletter in my emails, they seem like a very good choice if your looking for a guided trip. They have some beautiful wood canvas canoe’s in their fleet also. I like that, hope it’s a rewarding trip.

Thanks for the heads up, it’s a long one but like you said, a little at a time.

Thanks for such a nice trip report, your writing and photos were very much appreciated. I would have thought that the fishing would have been much better, but that’s how it goes sometimes. Did you try jigs with a black rubber tail at all? Anyway, Thanks.

Those are some great pics of Wabakimi Falls, looks like a nice day. Sometimes folks won’t wave, then you meet a guy like Mike.

That’s a nice looking river, does it stay wooded like that for long? Thanks for sharing those pics.

I have to hand it to you, that’s a pretty hard core trip imo, 14 miles on snow shoes, and cold camp. Was it one overnight? Very nice pics, Your camp looks like you have some expedience. Wow, very “cool”

Just applied the second (and last) coat of varnish to this JR Robertson 16’ courting canoe this morning.

Haha, good one. I agree with carrying an ax, especially in spring or fall when a fire can be very rewarding. Same with the twig stove. My “littlbug” large stove weighs next to nothing and fits flat in my Duluth Pack, yet I not only cook on it, it can provide a fast hot fire to keep warm by. I...

I attended a WCHA assembly at Keuka, it was ok, not as nice for canoes as Paul Smiths is.

Please don’t let your diagnosis alter your plans. I’ve been dealing with serious prostrate cancer (Gleason 9, Agent Orange) since 2016 along with bladder cancer since 2014 (AO also) and while sometimes the treatments can be bothersome or even arse kicking, I have tried to get in as much canoe...