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I started out paddling flatwater lakes in Ontario's Quetico Park in the mid 1960s, then got interested in whitewater sometime in the...

The original post was sucked off into the whitewater nebula, so Glenn asked for a recap for this thread. Here it is plus some extra info...

Johnny5, Okay, your trip was just before mine a year or maybe two as I went I think July of '90. I was hoping for some info on later...

When was your run Johnny5? I borrowed a friend's Whitesell Pyranha a couple times for local river trips back in the '80s and, though it...

Glenn, I was the only open boater on that run, a private permit, 18 days in the Canyon. Two other kayakers and I were the "scouts" for...

My first run in the Grand Canyon was in 1990 paddling a Mad River Kevlar ME. The wind (of course, upriver) was so strong in some...

I've run the Jarbidge River into the Bruneau River in Southwestern Idaho a couple times, and camping on it in the lower reaches we've...

Don't worry about wicking water and delam problems. I think that's a fallacy. Can anyone attest to it actually happening to them...

Is that a trolling motor in the stern? < Huge Grin! >

Earl, The first thing I'd recommend is to join a canoe club. Here's one in Hamilton, Ontario...

If anyone is into outdoor fiction, an author I like is a writer from Michigan who died in 2018, leaving some 60+ books behind. Not all...

I happen to like some of Pierre Berton's works. According to a bibliograpy I saw he did some 50 books on Canada, mostly historical...

I just voted in favor of drilling gunnels and attaching fasteners for this boat because Kevlar (or other composite) hulls are often...

Sure do for me. I couldn't find my Buck Stockman pocket knife one day months ago. I thought maybe I'd lost it in a parking lot when...

It looks like Kevlar with gelcote crack to me. Not that I'm the know-all, be-all in material recognition. That yellow under the...