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i tend to paddle larger boats loaded for all-condition tripping, a lot of it solo. i've put many miles on a couple of dozen popular hull shapes, but most of my experience is the more traditional canadian touring mode in traditional hull shapes. i find i have the best all-day all-condition luck...

No Title interesting thread, hopefully i'll be picking up a 17' square-stern on saturday. decals say chestnut, but they're easy to stick on, we'll see. kicker will be my 4hp johnson twin...

might want to get in though with these folks... they do a lot of traditional expeditions and workshops... http://www.ongoldenpond.ca/wworpd/

i use a similar set-up, run a loop from one seat to the other under the boat, double-back to a looped knot directly under the keel-line -- using a single length of rope -- the prusik is cleaner... you don't want to line from the decks or the painter rings in any sort of moving water... the boat...

the tripper is an excellent boat -- they were very popular for expeditions in northern canada after 17' grummans and before there were decent composite prospectors on the market...prospectors are generally a little more nimble, but that's not always a positive...

this popped up... http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Monarch-CANVAS-DULUTH-ENVELOPE-BACK-PACK-CANOE-PACK-CAMPING-HIKING-/181757186321?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a51929111

the disco 159 is listed as a 'shallow-arch', but with its straight sides, it feels much more flat bottomed than, say, a prospector. i've only paddled one once, it was a rental, it was free, it was a door-prize from a canoe symposium, it was a day on the river, shuttle included, but i...

sounds like part newspaper hyperbole, part ignorance or misinformation (tattler cabin is mapped at about 8hrs from opeongo put-in), and part hollywood style adventure-adversity/adversarial polarized dramatic expectation mixed with inexperience and lack of skill... besides the sometimes...

something like this swedish fruit stew always goes down well -- get everything dried, start things re-hydrating in the morning of, screw-on nalge again --- can't have enough fruit on a trip, and liquor to taste... FRUKTSOPPA (OLD FASHIONED SWEDISH FRUIT SOUP) 3/4 c. dried apricots 3/4 c. dried...

i find this very true when i solo -- so i carry lots of GORP in a nagle, and snacks like cheese, dried mango, granola bars etc... with someone else, or groups, a real meal is easier to count-on. one of my old favourites is hummus mix, packs well, i mix it in the morning and stow it in a...

dumped one cold spring in some french river (ontario) rapids -- grabbed the canoe, my paddles and the foam pad i was kneeling on, but the stainless steel cup that was clipped on the gunnels is now river-bottom narrative. Interestingly, in the more-recently constructed interpretive centre off of...

-that- soundtrack is why i paddle...

different strokes for different folks perhaps, i could paddle one of these things all day, indeed i try to as often as i can. this is a 5-day load-out, so maybe about 550lbs including me and the dog in a (novacraft) prospector 16 -- not the quickest boat by a long shot, but supremely adequate...

recently when back to a belt-knife for tripping -- thought i'd try the dh russell / grohmanns 'jump knife' -- it's small and handy and has a flapped case that keeps it pretty neat on the hip -- strapped it on again last weekend, so it must have passed the season-one test last year - on of the...

prospectors are a tumblehome design, not flared, the good ones have 'cheeks' tho not all of the copies do...they are much more susceptible to wind than shallower/flatter boats, especially when they are lightly loaded -- & it is pretty easy to lightly load a 17' prospector...doesn't mean they're...

apples and oranges, both very good canoes, very different styles -- a couple years back i spent a couple of days in a couple of win-on-nahs...hoping to get enought miles under them to really get a feel for them -- never got the hang of them, next day, jumped into a loaded prospector 15 on a...

i use a prospector 16 for solo and tandem these days...works great for both, a total compromise boat, but that's also spelled versatility. one in fiberglass, one in wood/cavas -- for years i used a chum as a solo and weekend tandem boat...nice boat, but not as seaworthy tandem, really capable...

solo trips i generally look at around 3k of portages a day as a working ceiling, depends on the portages and the trip -- , one trip last summer i had a 5.5k day, on an 'unofficial' algonquin route -- that's part logging roads and part bush-whack...multiply these numbers by three, i double-carry...

doesn't look like anybody's selling 'woods' brand packs at the moment -- the quality has increased since the 80's which seems to be an all-time low -- but frankly, they have nothing on duluth as far as construction. i have two late 80's woods packs, a #1 special and a #200 that has been my main...

bought my first w/c canoe, a 14' tremblay, at a yard-sale...in the 80's