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Muncho Lake, British Columbia, Canada, August 91'
This pic is from my move to Ak. We took the boat down and went for a paddle on this beautiful lake. I think it was my only time in a canoe in Canada.
This one is a throwback to the days when Old Town Trippers, boxer shorts and Bob Marley were still popular.
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Loved my OT Tripper but I was young enough not to realize how heavy it was 
This trip has been on my radar for awhile. I have been on a lot of this stretch of river in a jet boat.
@lowangle al Bob is still popular, sir!
What @stevet says but, yes, they are also flotation pods. In conjunction with holding the tracks for the sliding seat perfectly parallel, they cause the gunwales in the center of the canoe to be parallel. With those parallel and "tucked in" gunwales, you can execute a very vertical stroke close to and continuously parallel to the keel line.
The Lotus caper is the favorite of my flat water solo canoes. Here are two pictures of mine in Florida in April 2006, the first on the Ocklawaha River (with the sliding seat removed to sit on three stacked cushions) and the second on Juniper Springs.
It's a unique stretch of the Columbia. The reminders of our development and use of nuclear warfare give it an almost surreal backdrop. I recommend stopping along the way and climbing to vista points to better see what's out there on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
I feel fortunate to have canoed the Hanford Reach before it got discovered by speed boaters. We were the only paddle craft and there were very few fishing boats. Nice and quiet.
The “Button Club”….owners of the exquisite work by Tom MacKenzie (R). Left to right: Jim Mandle, Mrs. ? Nicholls, Arweyn Nicholls, Carol Tunnicliffe, Mary Lou Green.
Mid 80s I believe.
The Button was an 11 foot, 24 pound, DY designed, wood/dacron solo built as only Tom could.
Personally love this thread…wish we could get more participation.
Mid 80s I believe.
The Button was an 11 foot, 24 pound, DY designed, wood/dacron solo built as only Tom could.
Personally love this thread…wish we could get more participation.
Tom was quite a guy and one heck of a builder. He is missed and remembered.
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My mother and father. Probably early 1970's. Not sure what river.
Me, in March of 1982, on some reservoir lake in northern California in my 17' Old Town OTCA, which was the second canoe of the 18 I've bought, using a 57" Old Town Beavertail and Old Town life jacket. I have no idea who took the picture, although it may have been my father who visited us once when we lived in San Jose and we did go canoeing one day. I'm kneeling centrally on three stacked, rectangular PFD cushions, which I still use to this day in tandem canoes.
A friend from the Connecticut chapter of the Appalachian Mountain Club, Jan Larkin, paddling The Dumplings rapid on the West River, Vermont, sometime in the mid-1980s, in a Blue Hole Sunburst canoe.
Me, in August 1985 or 1986, paddling and rolling my Perception Gyramax C-1 at our family lake cottage on North Pond, Woodstock, Maine, which is about five miles from the Maine Canoe Symposium in Bryant Pond.
I had just learned to roll from Clarke Outdoors in Cornwall, Connecticut, and committed myself to 300 rolls in the lake that summer. I did that in a week, and then led a trip down the class 3-4 Rapid River in Maine the following week with a group that came up from the Connecticut AMC. We put-in (Lake Richardson) and took-out (Lake Umbagog) of the Rapid River by seaplane.
The next summer, I practiced and completed 300 rolls in the lake in my Whitesell Piranha open canoe. No pictures of that.
I had just learned to roll from Clarke Outdoors in Cornwall, Connecticut, and committed myself to 300 rolls in the lake that summer. I did that in a week, and then led a trip down the class 3-4 Rapid River in Maine the following week with a group that came up from the Connecticut AMC. We put-in (Lake Richardson) and took-out (Lake Umbagog) of the Rapid River by seaplane.
The next summer, I practiced and completed 300 rolls in the lake in my Whitesell Piranha open canoe. No pictures of that.
Mike Galt and Deborah Welbes demonstrating some flat water tandem canoe moves in the late 1980s or early 1990s in Lotus Egret at a place unknown. The pictures were sent to me by @charlie wilson, as I recall, and I believe @stevet has similar pix of himself et ux., also in a Lotus Egret.
Only downside to this thread is it makes me miss all the canoes I once had 
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The start of the Madhatters canoe race in Northeast Ohio.
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My father and I racing, probably in the Madhatters race but I don't know if it's the same year as the above picture was taken. I think the Madhatters are still holding the race but I doubt they still attach a manilla tag to people's necks for timekeeping.
Gulf of Mexico just north and west of Cape Sable in the Everglades about twenty years ago. The boat was an Old Town XL Tripper
