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Going to an auto body repair shop might be another option... they should have fiberglass materials and might give some leftover pieces away free.

... with the remaining Great Lakes also warmer than normal. Some great clouds over the lake during the summer, obscured now because of the smoke from forest fires on the west coast. Brilliant orange-red sun on the horizon setting yesterday, caused by smoke in the upper atmosphere. Did not have...

Pete, So either I am misunderstanding something here or the Ashes Stillwater is a real monster (at least the same length or slightly longer and an inch wider) if used in my size. The half of blade length thing obviously attempts to adjust to paddler size by scaling the blade with the paddle...

I don't see anything wrong with replacing a GPS device with a phone, esp since phones have become a far more versatile.device. Anybody here notice how much phone photography has developed and how fast that tech has progressed over the past several years.... the news reports suggest there's more...

I'm using Avenza Maps on an Android phone, have downloaded about a dozen Ontario top maps free and they can be used offline in combination with the phone's GPS... tracking and waypoints are easy to record and store. They have tutorials on youtube to help explain how to use Avenza for both iOS...

Heard this on CBC Radio last night, National Geographic's Explorer-In-Residence & heading NG's pristine seas project. Begins at 22:30, lots of relevance for those being subjected to deteriorating seacoasts and covers bigger-picture degradation generally. Hopefully those in the states can...

Small weigh scales can also be used to measure out the right amounts of epoxy and hardener if they are runny and difficult to estimate volumes with... with the caveat that the mix-by-weight proportion may be slightly different than the mix-by-volume. East epoxy has a technical PDF sheet showing...

Pitt... I\ve never tried G-flex either... I always had some extra regular epoxy left over from larger projects and never had a need for it since plain old epoxy worked fine. It's about $50 including tax in Toronto, the two small bottles about 125 ml each if I remember the ounce to ml conversion...

If all you\re going to use it for is to fill in scratches, cheap epoxy should work, as long as the interior of the scratch is clean enough and rough enough for the epoxy to bond to. Washing with detergent and rinsing well may be necessary if there's any oil on the hull or if there's dirt in the...

I'll bet that's a test to find out how slippery a graphite coated hull actually is.

Scoutergriz, I agree that the poor in those developing nations don't have much choice but the problem is made worse by there being no clean-up being done by governments... I don't travel there but others that have, described the situation away from tourist spots (they do clean those up because...

Found an interesting map that shows world population densities in 3-D... click on the world map for an expanded view, the height of the vertical columns shows how densely people are packed together in urbanizing areas...

Last night's thermal clouds over Lake Ontario... earlier there were thunderstorms bubbling up further to the east. Hot weather returns to Southern Ontario.

I didn't have time to read the full text yesterday and thought it was a two-hour youtube vid. But it is being broadcast later from Buffalo PBS so will wait. Will try recording on PVR. Toward The Source: An Arctic Odyssey Saturday, September 19, 03:00 am on WNED-TV To find where it is being...

Thanks for this find... sounds great, at two hours tonight or on the weekend. Interested in hearing about the spiritual journey side of things, I've always looked for places that seemed to have something extraordinary.

Yep, missed reading the posts here... still, it wasn't as bad as the hack that happened at Canadian canoe routes where all kinds of porn started showing up, the hacker getting in without registration I guess. Not that there's anything wrong with porn of course. OMG what would parents think about...

I've read that trolling a streamer will work, never tried it. Have tried trolling small spinners and spoons with a fly rod, and the length of the rod hanging over the side of the canoe became clunky after a while... the long length of the rod created leverage pulling backwards when trolling (I...

Black Fly... Methinks the outcome was known all along although maybe not to extent that the problem has grown to. During the seventies after I had sworn to carry out my duties faithfully as an Ontario civil servant working towards resolving environmental issues, there was broadly-based...

To follow on from Mike's transcendent Plastic Bottles Amid Phragmites photo plus "people ruining the planet", and posts in this thread... Found this report on the world's ten most plasticized rivers, the amounts of plastic thrown away unrecycled, littering landscapes and floating on oceans is...

Most unusual swim was in Georgian Bay, Moon river basin, when a Great Lakes seiche caused the water level to rise overnight... the canoe had been dragged up onto the flat rocks to what seemed like a reasonable elevation above lake level. In the morning the lake level was higher and had floated...