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If they brought duct tape, they could have finished the trip. ;)

Not canoeing, but on a sailboat delivery a couple of years back we ran out of cooking propane at sea. Every day I ate cereal for breakfast, a peanut butter sandwich for lunch, and a turkey sandwich for dinner. It was good enough and filling enough.

Sailing small boats in the south shore bays of Long Island I've found some interesting things. On a beach of one I found a collection of nautical iron including chain and oarlocks. Too much to come from one boat, I wonder how it got there. Near another island of long time summer homes, my...

Rain and tides did the most damage here. Though a couple of boats broke lines from wave action in the harbor. I've had two canoes blow away, one in a microburst, the other in a hurricane. Both were recovered and repaired.

I haven't camped in winter, but have slept in sailboats, or day sailed in cold weather. It's impressive what a small heater like a mantle lamp can do. If I can get the temperature above 50f, I'm happy.

Nice boat. I own a mystery canoe with similarities and differences. Mine was originally wood/canvas built in the middle of the last century, fiberglassed in this century. I believe mine to be a Faber, but it may be another built in the same area and style. Mine has a similar profile to yours...

My wife "polar plunges" in November to raise money for Special Olympics, the water is rarely below 50, but the air often is. I have swam in cold water as a drill in the USCG, also to recover a knife and to set an anchor. I once capsized a narrow sailing canoe in winter. I was wearing a short...

Fog the last three days. Paddled an hour and a half on the Peconic yesterday.

Bigger batches of epoxy cure faster.

Only flurries on Long Island so far, but that's not unusual. December was cool, I think October was warm, there's no telling what's ahead. I hope to get out paddling in the next few days, maybe today.

I moderate a home brewing forum. We can identify the AI posts pretty easily, they have a particular style. But it's young technology, who knows what the future holds?

Winter sailing and paddling I often wear Timberlands. When I was young I had a prized pair of Herman Survivors. They were double leather, probably American made. They did a lot of hard cold miles.

There's a lot of canoe water n NJ.

Trees snapping in hard weather can be scary. One exploded from a lightning strike across the street, it sounded like cannon fire. One of the scary moments I experienced in police work was going through the woods in a snowstorm, hearing limbs snap above.

I've built three, two mostly outdoors. My first boat was a Glen-L Topper 11' sailing dinghy. That was around 1987, I was just out of the Coast Guard, working ashore, missing the water. I had been reading and dreaming of boatbuilding since maybe ten years old. I borrowed my mother's yard, drove...

Your posts remind me of another weather event that damaged my canoe. I was in Lewes De visiting family, I bought my 15'x28" 40# lapstrake canoe. We were staying one block from the beach, where many people stored small boats. I left the canoe down there too, with slight reservations. One morning...

I don't remember any strong weather in a canoe. I've been at sea in gales in vessels ranging from 39'-210', weather bad enough to break things on a steel ship. Probably my most dangerous weather experiences were squalls. Anchored at night on a 20' boat in a large bay, thunderstorms strong enough...

Very cool, thanks for the write up! I've done some sewing on covers and sails. I started with an old Japanese "badged" machine. It had an all steel drive and worked well enough. A few years ago while making all new sail covers I bought a Sailrite, which is a good machine for heavy cloth.

Welcome aboard!

Cool resource, I'll check it out. I've actually been "lost" in the mangroves a couple of times in Florida, but found myself after a little while. I've also encountered alligators. The small ones were scared of me, the large ones weren't.