What Are Your Canoe "Must Haves"?
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wanderingrichard
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Floatation bags lashed in bow and stern.
Also, look into Squid Anchor. Essentially a mesh bag with flukes and anchor line that you fill with local river rocks to get the weight you want. Empty when done, roll it up and stash it in your gear bag.
Also, look into Squid Anchor. Essentially a mesh bag with flukes and anchor line that you fill with local river rocks to get the weight you want. Empty when done, roll it up and stash it in your gear bag.
CanoeGuy
Steelhead
If you are fishing out of it, these allow you to stand without worry
HD Canoe Stabilizer Floats Complete Package - Spring Creek
Spring Creek Manufacturing’s Made in the USA Canoe Stabilizer Float Packages are the safety and comfort you are looking for while in a Canoe on the water.
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I wish I could say I built them, but I bought them from the folks who built my boat. The larger clamp has a strip of wood underneath the gunwale with two threaded posts; the smaller clamp has just a threaded post with a brass crosspiece.
Hopefully, these pictures are self explanatory. Let me know if you want me to take them apart and show your dissembled pictures. You can also come over and check them out or borrow them to use as templates.
Pro tip: pick up a few spare butterfly nuts, they sink fast when you drop one!
Welcome! Hope we can take our boats out together!
I personally wouldn't want any part of the clamp to extend beyond the outside edge of the boat (it looks like the short side of your L-shaped piece is outside the boat). I think my fly line would get jammed up in there. Also, I like being able to move the clamp around on the water without tools, depending on whether I sitting in the middle seat (solo rowing) or one of the end seats (with company). The accessible butterfly nuts are good for that.
Good point, and perhaps not necessary to grip the outside. As for the access to the wing nuts, it's superficial and there have been concessions made on this boat already (bolts instead of pinned mortise and tenon for the thwart and yoke, plastic hatches instead of wood) but I'd like to keep what hardware is visible to an absolute minimum.
Just a thought...
Our kids loved scrambling beaches and swimming...and you can never tell where some yoyo broke bottles or discarded other stuff in or near a lake. In fact my daughter once suffered a severe laceration on the bottom of her foot from stepping on a submerged beaver chewed sapling. Her aquasox had been left at home, instead of the canoe. Fortunately we had a firstaid kit with steristrips to keep the cut held together until we could get her foot sutured up at minor emergency.
Anyway...just a thought.
Maybe covered previously (and somewhat related to safety/injury prevention) wading footwear kept in the canoe (especially for children) are essential when the craft is used during warm weather.
Our kids loved scrambling beaches and swimming...and you can never tell where some yoyo broke bottles or discarded other stuff in or near a lake. In fact my daughter once suffered a severe laceration on the bottom of her foot from stepping on a submerged beaver chewed sapling. Her aquasox had been left at home, instead of the canoe. Fortunately we had a firstaid kit with steristrips to keep the cut held together until we could get her foot sutured up at minor emergency.
Anyway...just a thought.
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Great advise, thanks!
We’ve all got water shoes, so I’ll ensure we wear them.
That sounds painful, glad she was able to escape with relatively minimal damage.
Someone else to row it, of course!
Once you've got fake paddling down pat you've got it made. Low effort course correcting J-strokes in the stern, and periodic bitching about a headwind will make the bow paddler do most of the real work.
My kids were teenagers before they figured out the old man was mostly coasting. I did it for their own good so they'd grow up strong.
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Do I hear a volunteer?
