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Glenn—thanks for giving Woodpuppy a little slack on the “canoes-only” inclination of the CT site. If not a canoe, the pumpkin was at least an open boat. And it really is a fun piece of amusement. I once paddled a refrigerator we encountered out on the river. Never mind secondary stability, the...

Alright! I’m a power poler! Don’t t really have much power though, so more correct to say I use the power poling position. The depictions in the canoe art thread are all classic, so no wonder they show polers using the classical style.

Looking through the canoe art thread, I noticed several pictures of canoeists poling. What strikes me is the foot positioning of the polers. In all cases, they are standing in the center with one foot forward and the other back. I stand square to the center line of the canoe, with one foot in...

Welcome. Good profile picture, especially since it’s a new canoe!

Howdy, Rob. I just have to ask, what are you going to do with those old bikes? When I looked at old bikes, it's been because I wanted to chop them up. But, "Ride 'em," is a great answer.

There are take outs where you can see your vehicle a long way off. At Assateague, for example, you pass your vehicle but still have to work around some guts and islands to actually get to the landing. A recurring nightmare is I’m paddling to some takeout and can see my vehicle from a mile or...

They don't make canoes anymore, but there is still a Mohawk Canoe company. The guys that run it are asking Mohawk owners to share memories of their canoes on their website. So, if you have a Mohawk, you might be interested in having your canoe's photo posted and telling its story. Here's the...

I bring a head lamp and spare AAAs. That gets used for task work like cooking, tent set up, and nav if you have to paddle or walk in the dark. I carry two Luci lights, which have replaced candle lanterns in my pack. The lanterns and spare candles were far heavier and didn’t provide as much...

I used a North Face Rock 22 tent for around 10 years and probably 200 nights. It was bomber, but ultimately succumbed to a split pole end, just like the OP’s. Shopping for its’ replacement, I took a flyer on a Teton Sport 3-man. How good a tent can it be for $140? I’ve spent ~40 nights in it...

That‘s an impressive piece of art and shows dedication to the media—there have to be easier ways to create images.

Moonrise over the Curtis Bay (Maryland) shipyard, viewed through the rusting remains of a ship hull.

My buddy was climbing a bank on the Buffalo River and slipped, becoming impaled on the jagged end of a broken limb. He took it in the middle of his inner thigh, about a four inch deep stab. Luckily, it didn’t rip the femoral artery that runs in that area, but was a deep and serious wound. I...

Nothing like lightning to spark conversation among paddlers. But, ya, go indoors. The only safe place in lightning is within a solid structure. I never understood the urgency of paddling mates to get off the water in lightning. Emotionally, I understand it. The few times I got stuck on the...

Health... in general. This spring my bad back was acting up and caused me to postpone a trip to Michigan I had been planning. But, as others have written, when sick or injured, it's tough to get going. In 2010 a planned canoe trip got scratched because I got stuck on a tropical island! We...

I was tired of head winds pasting the brim of my floppy hats to my forehead. So I was determined to get a better hat and went shopping for a Tilley. I ended up getting a Charter Hat by Sunday Afternoons. The brim has never been blown back, and I like the built in sunglasses holder. Made in Viet...

All my adult life, if I ever needed a tool, I just went and bought it on the rationale that I'd get to use it the rest of my life. And I bought lots of Craftsman tools, for the "lifetime" guarantee! Now that I'm over the hill, I look at all the tools in the shop and figure when the time comes...

Wife said paddle all you want, so long as you don’t ask me. I‘ve heard people tell me I’m lucky that my wife lets me paddle so much. I usually correct them. I’d be more lucky if she paddled with me!

Somewhere around the Bentonville stretch of the Shenandoah, we bit off a lot more paddling than we had daylight. The shuttle went a long way on 340, a mostly straight road, and I knew the river is decidedly not straight. I questioned my friend, wasn’t it going to be a lot of river miles? He said...

I’ve always been leery of set ups where one rack is on the truck bed and one on the cab. On my Tacomas, I could clearly see the bed twisting slightly with respect to the cab on uneven surfaces. This is most evident when backing up and looking out the rear window. I could see the bed change...

Hmmm, trolling motor. Is it powered by a marine battery? That’s around 50 pounds. If the battery is just loose in the boat, I guess in a capsize that weight would just go to the bottom and the hull would still float. Is that what they mean by “deep cycle” battery? But if the battery is attached...