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Happy Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (1775)! ⛪🕯️🕛🏇🏼
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Boatman53 replied to the thread Weather 1/25: Cold, Cold, Cold, Wind, Wind, Wind, Wind.It was -10° when I got up this morning, no wind and squeaky snow. It was marvelous a sweater and my wool vest was all I needed, no wind... -
Since we are sharing winter water activities in our usual paddling haunts, here is some pond skating. We've had unusually consistent...
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Our local river. Sorry that the image is blurry but you get the idea.
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Didn’t get around to building a second canoe this winter. So decided to make a wannigan/cooler with some left over strips. Not done yet...
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red nose day 👍👍👍👍
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Nobody else in the woods, just me and the sounds of ice
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Boatman53 replied to the thread New Ash Gunwales.Another vote against staining. Jim
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Boatman53 replied to the thread LOTN trip! Weeeeeee!.Wow, what a great trip. Thanks for taking us along. More later once I digest all this. Jim
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Whoo Hooo! Thanks to Air Canada for getting me there and a HUGE shout out to Lure of the North, Kie, Dave Marrone, Nero and the team...
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Boatman53 replied to the thread Weather: Was it colder when you were a kid?.Yes it was colder. In the ‘60/70’s as a kid the town would flood an area to create a naturally frozen skating rink I would skate from...
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Boatman53 replied to the thread Weather 1/25: Cold, Cold, Cold, Wind, Wind, Wind, Wind.I was talking with a customer yesterday and said I wasn’t going to go to the post office because I had to deal with the fresh snow storm...
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Boatman53 replied to the thread Hand Layup or Vacuum.I believe the vacuum method gives a better cloth to resin ratio and hence I bit lighter weight in the end. But for one or two boats the...
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Boatman53 reacted to gumpus's post in the thread Weather 1/25: Cold, Cold, Cold, Wind, Wind, Wind, Wind with
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Lake Michigan today -
Boatman53 reacted to Gamma1214's post in the thread Charity paddles- what length do you think? with Like.
I've been working on the paddles when time allowed and oiled / varnished them today (pictures and final weights when done) A couple of...
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Boatman53 reacted to MichaelMerry's post in the thread Weather 1/25: Cold, Cold, Cold, Wind, Wind, Wind, Wind with Like.
Just wrapped a snowshoe backpack with my wife in the Allegheny national forest. Gorgeous conditions.