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There are a lot of Discos ... I think of the 158 and 169 as "classic" Discos, but there are also 119, 133, 164, 174 IIRC. Could it be a 164? It doesn't look like a 158/169, those have more recurved stems. I share your hatred of those plastic buttsweat petri dish seats. Also they're heavy...

I've always wondered this, when you measure the bow/stern height of a canoe with rocker, do you measure from the floor, even though the stem is really floating above the floor by approximately the amount of rocker?

This was a short trip and there's already good coverage of the area in other TRs, so I'll keep this a lite trip report. I wanted to make a post mainly to make people aware of a couple of less popular access points that enable a self shuttled loop trip. First the references, more on the Jo-Mary...

Day 3: Moose Pond to Millimagassett Lake I literally awoke refreshed. The previous evening I was totally spent, but food, water and sleep brought me back. We were on the trail, heading south back to the canoe, at a quarter to 8. Our fresh legs made quick work of both the road walk and the...

I've had a 6 gal bucket with gamma seal lid for a few years now, and while I like it, it's too big for most of the trips I do (i.e., short and solo). I recently bought a 3.5 gal bucket + gamma lid to try out (venturing all of $20), and I really like the size. I think it would carry about a...

Day 2: East Branch Penobscot River to Moose Pond We arose at a civilized hour for what we knew would be the most difficult day. We ate a quick breakfast, packed up and got on the "trail" around 9. Looking up at the campsite from the landing -- the first 0.1% of the portage! The crossing...

"Once the principal route between the upper Aroostook and the East Branch [Penobscot River], this carry was direct, and useable as long as streams were unfrozen. The southern half of the Millinocket Carry is abandoned and a challenge today ... It is a major loss." - Ron Canter, The Allagash and...

Grand Lake Matagamon boat launch near the north entrance to Baxter State Park on Sunday morning after a trip. Boat is an OT Penobscot 16.

Shouldn't every campsite have a pocket beach leading to a flat rock in the sun? Pemadumcook Lake, near Millinocket, Maine.

I hear you about the plastic, and I confess that I do have a couple pieces of sheet vinyl that look like they might become something-I-know-not-what if heated and shaped. Probably not a deck though, I'm living the deck free lifestyle these days. Now that you mention webbing loops, I have a...

This article on in-canoe sleep setups has some interesting ideas for lock pin quick release thwarts. IIRC this appeared in the print version of Canoe Roots at some point.

I almost missed this thread because I was so busy making sushi with this high end California grown rice: https://www.amazon.com/Tamaki-Gold-Signature-California-Koshihikari/dp/B003HGKO78

Outfitting update on this canoe. It's in service, I haven't tripped in it yet but I've done a dozen or so day paddles. I don't go anywhere far without a footbrace, so as soon as I felt like the seat setup was confirmed I started thinking about how to do a footbrace. I've installed several of...

I have a ~10 year old Home Depole treated periodically with BLO/turp, and it's been holding up well despite general neglect (I have a place for it that isn't on the ground, but sometimes it falls on the ground). It has darkened quite a bit, but still has good hand feel. I'm definitely curious...

Hopefully the issue stays local and you can just infill. It sure sounds like you dotted your i's and crossed your t's. Good luck on the Safari! I've never done it but it's on my bucket list. I hear it's tough sledding -- should be a good burn-in test for the new underbelly.

The times I've done repairs like this, I mostly didn't sand to bare kevlar, I just roughed up the resin (vinylester?) enough that there could be some mechanical bond. Broadly speaking, Kevlar is hydrophobic and glass is hydrophilic ... could the glass have more or less sucked the resin off of...

I wonder if something in the thickened epoxy could have interfered. Did the area of delamination correspond to one of the patches? If the epoxy for the patch had some surface amine blush, that could cause a problem with the next layer. What kind of epoxy did you use? This reminds me of the...

Yes. When likes were first enabled on this board, I thought "oh no, more of that feces", but I do like appreciate that I can agree with or celebrate someone's post without cluttering the thread with a one line "heck yeah!" post. Do we need to display the reaction score? Without that global...

I've always measured down from the gunwhales. I guess that's not really level if the shearline is swoopy, but in a solo canoe it's near the middle anyway so close enough for gov'ment work.

I totally agree. I enjoy (and envy) the epic stuff, but I also enjoy the shorter and less ambitious trip reports. Just like a build/outfitting fail can save others a lot of grief, a frank negative TR can be really helpful, whether it's a bad place, bad weather, planning errors & omissions...