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A lot can happen in a month, but with high water now it'll probably be OK. They're still giving a "very experienced paddlers" warning about Webster Stream, and the river is ~2000cfs, about 3x the median for this time of year...

Yes, exactly. Unlike some rapids that hide in the shade that one looks as prominent on the satellite as on the ground, (45.929641, -69.227255). I portaged that one and ran everything else. It was an up and then down trip so I had seen everything on the way up. Ripogenus Stream comes into...

Pretty little waterfall on Ripogenus Stream, yesterday. This is a tributary of the West Branch Penobscot in northern Maine. Back in the day it was one of several routes from Harrington Lake to Chesuncook.

Voyager is a great boat, but depending on the race it may not qualify as a citizen racer. In the US north at least stock C1 classes are usually under "4x32"/cruiser rules, so the ratio of waterline width to length has to be at least 0.14375. The Advantage qualifies (just), but the Voyager is too...

For scenic biking on lovely trails with 1000x fewer people than Acadia, consider the Penobscot River Trails an hour or so north of Bangor. https://penobscotrivertrails.org/ For absurdly large but still really good pancakes, I recommend Purple Cow House of Pancakes in Fairfield (near...

I'm late on this and it's pretty well covered, but just one note on nomenclature, a lot of the nice places to "just go" canoe camp in Maine are Public Reserved Lands -- owned by the state but not managed/developed/staffed as intensively like State Parks. Good examples that have mostly been...

Unfortunate, but kinda fitting to be "windbound". 🐡 Thanks for all your hard work!

Definitely FG. Doug bequeathed the hull on me in late 2021 and I worked on it over that winter, details here: https://www.canoetripping.net/threads/rebuild-of-a-mad-river-traveler.118927/ The hard part was getting it home as it was very floppy with only temporary rails. It's a great hull...

A bailer can be handy on flatwater if one needs to take a leak and the shoreline is uninviting. In the Missouri River 340 race everyone pees in the boat, even the gals paddling surfskis.

I didn't know there was water there either, I also always filter. If you're a map nerd, the AWW distributes a KML file (for Google Earth and other programs) with the locations of campsites, relics and other odds and sods, including public drinking water as it turns out. Looks like it's between...

Like @yknpdlr, I have a lot of race shirts, and like most everyone I have a lot of opinions about shirts. One piece of site merch / schwague I'd like to see is a logo cotton bandana. Those have so many uses on the water and around camp: sun/bug shield boyscout style, hot pot holder, snot rag...

I love Chesuncook, but she does have a way of tweaking a schedule. I've been there twice this year, one time we were a day late and had to cross at 4am to avoid being two days late, the other time it was cloudy and I had no problem taking a bee line wherever I wanted to go. That sounds like a...

I use the windshield washer fluid jugs, a similar shape but clear plastic. I find the diameter roughly matches the chines of the canoes I bail most often. (For best results, heel slightly before bailing.) Even if our outfitting accessories come out of the garbage we can still be connoisseurs. I...

It does look like a Mad River. Shallow V hull, on-top decks, wood rails on an Rx hull (not really a good idea, but the Mad River people loved the wood). Yes, the outer layer is vinyl. You might try touching it up with the fancy 303 protectant, or just some automotive products (Armor All and...

He does still use it for WW (local races are an opportunity to show off the scars!). I know he's had to "touch up" at least once, but it's taken some knocks without serious failure. That said, I don't think he'd tempt fate with a distant wilderness expedition in that canoe. Your boat has a...

Did it happen in winter? It would be hard to do that to royalex at room temperature. G Flex on royalex/ABS is pretty amazing. I have a friend who shredded his Penobscot 17 in a whitewater wrap (say 6-8 linear feet of torn material). He put it back together with G Flex, good prep of the cracks...

I was there as well, my first time at MCS, and also had to bug out Sunday early. I enjoyed the random conversations around the fire (perhaps more popular than usual due to cool, damp weather?) as well as the presentations. Canoeing is not always easy to explain to laypersons, but at MCS...

We were on Lobster Saturday night, and it wasn't crowded at all, we kept wondering where everyone was. That afternoon we saw a few fishing boats but no other camping parties. We visited all the campsites on the Ogden Point peninsula before settling on Ogden North. I'm sure it's busier in the...

Just after sunset last Saturday on Lobster Lake in Maine. My companion was seeking enlightenment.

Those tents are all well and good but the baby blue Sawyer steals the show.