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I also started serious canoeing in whitewater, where it was de rigueur to tie everything in and to carry a bailer (also tied in). I've kept up that practice when tripping on lakes and have never regretted it, nor have I ever dumped. All my gear is in three bags, so it's not time-consuming to...

Progress! In all things, we should seek progress not perfection.

Last time I fished I wrapped a bunch of clothesline around a rock, tying it with knots I made up. It worked on a lake. Of course, that was in 1956, so I'm not much help on more modern devices. Anchoring in river current requires some knowledge of hydrophysics. I think we have some posts here...

Thanks for the pictures, @Tryin'. They're great. That must be @Gamma1214's magic Merlin multicolor masterpiece in one of the photos.

This symposium is one of the several things to attend on my remaining bucket list. Bryant Pond was the post office address of the lake I grew up on every summer, North Pond, which is about five miles west of the lake and town of Bryant Pond. North Pond is connected to Round Pond and South Pond...

I've advocated against skid plates until the canoe actually needs them. Yes. Alan's dual approach makes sense to me, as epoxying composite fabrics has never been enjoyable to me. Since I've never before heard of the product being discussed, properly named KeelEazy, I assume some other...

Dagon, welcome to site membership! Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Also, because canoeing is a geographic sport, please add your location to the Account Details...

"Dramatic video from the Minnesota Air Rescue Team shows a nighttime helicopter mission that extracted a pair of paddlers from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA). Rescuers navigated darkness, rain and dense tree cover to reach the pair, who had lost their boat and lacked the gear needed to...

I was never young enough to backflip off a waterfall (or anything else). Obviously, the guy had done that before and was performing for the camera. He deliberately dumped his canoe and was surely familiar with the depth of the water at the base of the falls.

Thanks, Ken. I have wheels and perhaps a companion with a truck.

Thanks much, Brightraven. Lovely pictures.

I have an almost-good-as-new 15' Nova Craft Bob Special tandem in the Aramid Lite layup (40 lbs.), which I gave to my daughter in Orange Park, Florida, but which she's never used. I've soloed it from the bow seat backwards with water ballast in front. I'd sell it. At 35" beam, it's almost as...

Sim, in your opinion, could a sedan be driven the 6 miles on the Gulf Road in the condition you saw it, or would a high-clearance vehicle, such as a SUV or truck, be necessary. Also, do you recall whether the Four Corners Parking Lot has handicapped spaces? I have tentative plans to day paddle...

Initially, I confess to have been orthographically tortured for decades trying to decide whether flatwater is one word or two. I will now settle on the one word formulation because I define flatwater as more encompassing than flat water. For example, a lake or ocean can be flat or different...

I've always packed the tent and fly together. If the fly is wet and the tent is dry, I just make sure the tent is inside the dry side of the fly as I fold or roll it. Fortunately, I don't recall a time when I had to pack both a wet tent and wet fly. If they were both wet, would it make any...

Bill Mason paddled solo in a heeled tandem canoe from the bow seat backwards, except when he skootched up to the central thwart in whitewater. Freestyle solo uses dedicated solo canoes with centralized seats, which are much shorter and narrower. Mason's style of solo paddling a heeled tandem is...

Mason, just to clarify, are you saying that if you stake and pitch before zipping the doors, it may be too tight to zip, but that this won't happen if you zip around the widest widest part of the door and leave the rest open. That would make sense to me, but I guess I just figured why not zip...

1. Missouri River speed attempt 2. 81-year-old Will Steger on 800 mile solo expedition 3. 90-year-old Dale Sanders attacks second half of AT 4. Circumnavigation of Iceland 5. Ireland circumnavigation speed attempt 6. North America circumnavigation 7. Canada by Canoe → tracking site...