Recent content by Robin

It would be nice to get a few folks to met up that weekend, I’d like to give it a shot.

I’m not sure how I ever managed to complete one portage without the aid of a PortagePal. I expect we will soon be graced with threads on various ways to store our PortagePal, best PortagePal gloves, available colors, grips, “stripper-builds PortagePals, traditional PortagePals made of wood and...

Thanks, that’s an awesome idea but I’m even done with walking portages. Those two mile longs at the end of the Marshall Lake circuit would be too hard for me without the 65lb wood canvas canoe, the hamstrings are not there anymore. I have a road trip planned for nw Ontario in August, hoping...

I have found 8 to 10’ ash and 16’ spruce on Craigslist and FB Marketplace in Connecticut and here in Maine. I used the hardwood for the inwales and spruce for the gunnels, all with 8”” splices. They have held up well.

Your dad is a nice guy, we had a nice talk, I hope I will be lucky enough to share some tea with him someday.

I have watched this a few times, I enjoyed it every time. @53:20. “Sometimes when we use modern equipment, we try to exclude nature….”

Yes, you are correct. It’s a loaded tripping canoe, not a play boat, best to pick the safest line on a remote northern river. My only concern is the gif is using a plastic paddle in a wood canvas canoe.

Another tripper wearing Muckboots

What Benson said, Headwaters Canoe in Quebec builds prospectors (real prospectors of of an original Chestnut form)

I’m guessing those curves on the bottom are stems and the rest will be two piece gunnels. I believe they are making 3 more canoes.

A first boat is covered with "filler": this gray coating will make the canvas resistant and waterproof. When it's dry, in two good weeks, a coat of green paint will be applied, and it'll start to look like a Tremblay boat! In the photo: Rodrigue Pelchat and Roger Jacques, veteran craftsmen of...

Great news, Thanks Glenn (and Alan Gage for stepping up), that’s great news for the site. Moving the site to the new platform has really been a win for everyone, Thanks for all your efforts.

One year I stopped at a small outdoor store in Temagami, (not there anymore), and as I was paying for my items the owner offered a tent rental receipt when he saw that I was buying some topo’s. I took it, but went back and bought my kids a bunch of tee’s. The tent rental receipt nullified the...

I went to one meeting.

Some of my favorites- Recently completed an impressive solo trip in the NWT, his channel is somewhat all over the place but well worth the effort to follow. https://youtube.com/@calem_watson_adventurer?si=S2Fi1kFy8gNVDp8M Impressive young Canadian, lots of nice canoeing/trapping/dog sledding...