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I haven't seen any. Maybe a simple seat hanging from cam straps?

Okay, I read the article. As a saltwater boater and USCG veteran, I can relate to it. To some extent, we're always risking our lives out in small boats. There are things you can do to mitigate the risk, but it's always there. The article makes good points, though I think few will go so far as...

I'll read the article later. Before cell phones, even on heavily populated Long Island NY, I used to bring a very basic camp kit with me in small boats offseason. Also flares, signal mirror, compass, chem lights. It all fit in a plastic tool box.

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I'm on the North Shore of LI, we have fewer rivers and ponds but plenty of shallow bays and salt marsh.

Welcome aboard! (Waving toward Long Island Sound)

I like the idea. Reading MacGregor, he often stopped at farms or inns. I once drove to Florida with a canoe on the car. I stayed in a budget motel and launched in a different body of water every day. If my wife ever does a canoe trip with me, there will have to be comfortable accommodations and...

If I didn't already own two light canoes, I'd take a drive.

Thank you all. I see the parallels, you probably do too. Being at sea is all about living in the moment. Glenn, it's not very dangerous. The worst risks at sea are collision and severe weather. The boat he sails has AIS, which shows us commercial traffic including course and speed. We'll have an...

For those who have done it and would again. Is it the challenge, the natural world, the simplicity of life or something else? I'm not planning a long canoe trip at this time, but a friend has asked me to help sail across the Atlantic. I've been to sea on CG cutters, on my own boat, others too...

I like the yoke, and the cams. I've built a clamp on sailing rig using star nuts for a dinghy. On a canoe with open gunwales, I lash it on with webbing.

LF Herreshoff defined a kayak as skin covered. He called his similar design in wood a "decked double paddle canoe".

If using a double paddle makes my canoes kayaks, do I now own twice as many? I like that, but my wife won't! :D

I think you'll find that the varnish will help disguise imperfections. I know that's not true on a flat surface, but yours has compound curves and plank lines. The canoe in my avatar was a dead wood canvas boat that was later stripped and glassed. It's not fair, the planks have humps. Close up...

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Very cool.

It might not be terribly hard to make one.

Interesting thread. I'm trying to work out a trip in the Mid Atlantic states with my old partner. I'm on Long Island, he's in NC. I was originally thinking of using my canoes or kayak. I have a light 15'x28" double paddle solo, a cedar 15'x35" tandem, and a Folbot Yukon. I thought I would bring...

Nice progress! I've built a couple of small boats, and repaired more than that. Launch day is a rare treat, getting afloat in a boat you built. Yes, you will always remember the challenges and see the imperfections, but no one else will. They'll just see a beautiful boat that you built.