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The other dolphin canoe company

It's a Dolphin! Possibly made in Manitoba, we had a dolphin canoe company up here. Man those are ugly boats. We know of an abandoned dolphin on port #6 on the Wanipigow River up here and it is one ugly heavy boat. It has glass sponsons and if you look straight on from the bow it looks like a...

I still have my original film camera and lenses but don't use it much anymore simply due to the fact film is getting difficult to find and quality places for development are getting rarer as well. I have gone digital, starter Nikon, which is still expensive depending on your income. Despite the...

We have a pair of 17/18 footers yet to restore, a 1917 Penobscot and a 1905-1909 BN Morris. Both of which we acquired from Robin a few years ago.

Welcome from another w/c restorer in Manitoba Karin

Our little boats. The 3 wood canvas I restored, the stripper I built. There will be another Jacks Special being built. The chestnut was sold, the green Bastien was sold, the yellow Bastien and my Jacks we still have Karin

-28C with a -38C windchill at the moment

Perhaps he spends one day cutting a slot in the ice, the next day he paddles down the slot, then repeat the process.

The Red River currently has above normal ice thickness in most areas. Based on March measurements this year, ice thickness ranges between 30 and 42 inches (0.76 to 1.07 m). Normal ice thickness for this time of the year for southern Manitoba rivers typically range between 12 and 24 inches (0.3...

Figure the usual here, second week of May. Last year it was a few days before the May 24 weekend although we had snow the Friday of that weekend, which is becoming the norm here. Cold snap coming this weekend which won't help but there is still 3 feet of snow in the back yard as well.

I didn't see a single mention of you Mem, considering you have done the work to keep the portages open. When was the last time Kevin Callan opened the ports and mapped it out as you have?

Shadows of the Kayak Graveyard

T-shirt for me, short and long sleeve? I don't wear ball caps but have nothing against them besides the men who wear them constantly tend to go bald early in life.

If she puts up a ice shack and goes for over-nighters next year, at the least we will know where to send SAR.

Yea sure, rub it in. 8-12 inches fell overnight and through today and still coming down.

Ooo, another Manitoban, we are taking over! Welcome.

Rice River, Manitoba The other girls heard it as we portaged, did not tell me thankfully

The first official sign of Spring is a bear thread.

Kewpie doll? Good eye. Considering how much we fish I'm surprised nobody else saw it.

I painted the exterior of my last build. It was the plan from the beginning. Although I did try to pigment the resin it wouldn't cover so I used Beauty Tone Rust Paint tinted to the colour I wanted. Easy touch up with the finish underneath close to the same. Although PB ate most of the photo's...