tketcham

My preference for rivers...

Finally found and scanned a picture my father took showing the family with our new 1968 OTCA-17 atop our 1955 Rambler station wagon...

Here's my current vehicle with newest addition to the fleet.

For 30 years I was on the permanent instructor team staff to teach an 8-day high adventure wilderness guide trek leader program...

tketcham, I went back and watched Bill's videos from 2014/2015 and did see some canoes with the C/K gunnels and conventional seat drops...

Here you go... You can see how they (Swift) shaped the edge that aligns with the underside of the gunnel. Nice work. (That's the leading...

That's good to know, about the gunwales that is. And a sliding seat would be handy. I used to hunt rabbits and hares with beagles. Great...

It's my understanding that traditional spar varnish provides a finish that does not harden to the point of being brittle unlike urethane...

Paddling a FlashFire is already cheating so paddling an all carbon FlashFire is double cheating.

I got my Osprey in 2011 and it has a sliding seat so no truss drops to help clamp the seat to the gunwales. I have no concerns with the...

This depends on a huge number of factors and sanding the old varnish away completely is not always required. The people at the link...

A friend just bought a carbon Flashfire with the carbon trim and the carbon (kneeling) seat was attached with wood seat drops. :)

If you ever get a chance to take a pic of the seat showing the underside of the gunnel and the drop interface I would love to see it.

What is the typical life span of marine spar varnish canoe trim? And do you have to completely sand down the original coat? I used...

I just read Voss' account in "40,000 Miles In A Canoe". Great read; impressive sailing and navigation skills...