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It might actually be done soon, although it won't get a seat until we have open water (June maybe...). Gotta love the colour in Manitoba cedar.

Look, the Kite showed up again... should be done, soon, after 3 years'ish. It is best seen from about 20 feet away.

Sorry for the delay, I have been ill the past 3 weeks since getting home. One issue we had to deal with was excessive planking cupping due to the inability to release the water from the wood since with canvas it would soak up the water and it would then evaporate. There was significant planking...

Home now from the road trip, will get back to editing the photos. Gamma, that was 2014, I think the third or fourth cedar/canvas repair we did. I love doing it, I just take my time and enjoy the process. I need to find a space where I can get the Morris into for the long term restoration now...

I do miss tripping in Atikaki Provincial Wilderness Park, Christine and I put down many kilometers in the park. I don't miss sleeping on the ground...

It doesn't appear that I am able to edit the existing thread to remove the photobucket links so I will just add the photos here as I get them edited. The first ones are from Rob who got the boat and did the tedious task of removing all the fibreglas at which point he decided it was too much for...

Funny thing happened this week, PhotoBucket reached out in email to see if I would be willing to resurrect my account with them to regain access to all my photos, however, they said there were only 49 left and I wasn't going to give them $80 for so few, so I told them to just delete the account...

It is interesting that no one has mentioned the fact that Pickerel are also known as Walleye in some parts, but Pickerel is the name of the fish throughout Canadian history and culture. I may be game for a Marshall adventure Mem.

There are 51 active fires in Manitoba at the moment. Although we no longer canoe trip at all, I still check daily as it falls into my weather geekness. https://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation_fire/Fire-Maps/fireview/fireview.html

That looks like Mem's Spirit 2 barge in the background.

Perhaps the best item was a Raven Bent Carbon paddle floating in an eddy on the Wanipigow River downstream of the Broadleaf River. Also in the Wanipigow downstream from Wallace Lake, a Bell Alaskan broken in half below portage #5 I believe. At portage 6, and still there although we first...

I wouldn't say that Christine and I are either medium or small but it was a wonderful tripping boat for the 8 years we used it, taking us around the southern portions of Atikaki Provincial Wilderness Park as far north as Aikens Lake and through the Mothers, WCPP on the western front from...

2007 Swift Mattawa. Kevlar fusion with integrated carbon-kevlar gunwales. Finished with cherry wood, sliding front seat, kneeling thwart, and contoured yoke. Weighs @ 42 lbs. Has seen a lot of wilderness tripping and was a great canoe for two people and a week’s worth of gear. I removed...

I took this snip from a video on my YT channel Robin, it is very much like what you have seen on Marshall, prior to a good thunderstorm. It is spectacular to see for sure.

Out with the Mattawa... All wood removed, zero rot on the ends as it was always stored indoors, wood finished with Epifanes Varnish as it should be. The experience it has had on the bottom will not clean up so it stays. It has travelled hundreds of kilometres in Manitoba and NW Ontario... Next...

Been a bit. The Kite has been glassed in and out but now moved to the other building so we can get some work done on other boats. My Swift Mattawa is getting spiffied up to go on sale next week. I have pulled most of the wood out and there is no rot anywhere, the boat was always stored indoors...

Had snow on Sunday and Wednesday and combined gave more snow than the entire rest of Winter. It was windy both storms so difficult to say but I think we got about 6" on Wednesday and have a foot on the ground. We needed some, the bush is going to be dry this year if we don't get Spring rains...

If certain circumstances change in the future I will give up FB too.

I will see if I can link them to my YouTube channel, I'm sure that would work for everyone. I will use YT in the future.

FB video links. I couldn't imbed the video directly.