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Daily I carry a Case Swayback jack in CV. The main Warncliffe blade is overrated as a multi-purpose blade but it's great for whittling and slicing apples (and sucks for slicing salami or cheese on a breadboard [a knife with some belly or an offset handle is better for that]). When I'm going to...

A touch of erl wouldn't hurt those blades none would it? Or would that affect the collector value some?

I have resisted naming my boat, maybe for fear I'd make a mistake like John Kerry naming his(wife's) boat: Scaramouche I'm leaning to: Minotaur (Greek man/Bull beast) Or: Monitor, after the Union Ironclad of "Battle of Hampton Roads" fame. (I don't know what's with the "M" thing.) It's not...

Looks like Evinrude is getting ready to take a dump in his new sandbox?

Brer Bear, I'll have you know my wife and I are perfectly capable of turning my canoe bottom side up on any water deep enough to float it. I was laboring under the assumption that additional flotation was to encourage a swamped boat to float with the gunnels above water to aid in self-rescue...

OK, I can see what you're doing now. I was afraid to put sealed flotation in my stripper for fear temperature changes would make the chambers blow up (or collapse) so I just jammed a bunch of styrofoam sheets fore and aft under the decks to give it a lick and a prayer. Pretty unsightly...

Chuck, Pardon my ignorance but are those end pours a big lump of epoxy or do you have some flotation built in there? I'm looking forward to seeing your boat once it gets wet. Doug

I don't suppose any of you fellers smoke anymore but a cigarette or match held close to the tick's hind parts makes them nervous enough to back out. You don't want to kill the little bugger until after he lets go; just close enough to let him know you mean business. Leeches respond to tobacco...

My EDC is a Case Med Stockman and a little single blade SAK for picking splinters and cleaning my fingernails. I've carried Kayak Jack's Gerber multi-tool as well as a Leatherman and a Spyderco whatchamacallit but don't care for any of them as I couldn't get them to do any job as well as a...

Oops! sorry for the double post!

I never had any feeling for any of those kayaks until I seen this one with a built in cooler. :P Now I'm feeling a little warm...how does it portage?

When I built my stripper 3 years ago, I bought 18' cedar boards to rip. they were plenty long for a Prospector 16'. It was a challenge to find clear 18' cedar boards but not impossible at the specialty lumber yard. Not all of them made it to 18' but enough of them did that I didn't have to scarf...

Ma keeps a couple of scrawny Aloe Vera plants around here in pots over the winter that look like they barely make it through. Every winter. They come back strong in the Spring and Spring skiing sunburn can be a killer. Always enough sap to last through the summer camping season. In Colorado...

Re: Sawing wood He has a bear foot? Division of wildlife or the human genome thing will surely be interested in this. Do Carnivals still winter in Fla? One or the other...

I think those cig pacs had 4 cigs in each; just like the airlines in the 60's used to give you with your dinner! "Overseas" they gave us SP's including cartons of cigarettes but we had to divvy up the nasty ones: Kents ("with the micronite [asbestos] filter"), Pall Malls and Newports (menthol...

Mr.HMick, I never drank coffee as a kid, until I was forced to, in the Army (1st Cav to be exact) then it was instant packets augmented by hot chocolate pacs, "creamer" (WTF?) and sugar pacs. Tasted like "crepes?" singular. Kept me awake enough to answer radio checks at my guard hole, Most of...

"www.gasbuddy.com" Tells you gas prices based on a map if you don't know the zipcode for the places you'll be driving. You can also post local gas prices if you are so inclined.

I have a splice on each of my gunnels inner and outer. They posed no problem for the boat ( a 16' Prospector stripper). You'll need more than a 45 degree scarf joint though. My inner gunnel is 5/8" wide and the outer is 3/4"; the splice is 6" long in each case. It's easier to clamp a longer (and...

Keith, I'm curious; since the log was a sinker, would the dugout sink if you were to capsize it? Sure would be a shame to lose it for another 500 years.

Never used one of those mess kits.. boiled everything in a canteen cup using a wad of C-4. Oh, on the firebases we got fed on paper plates. Still use paper plates when we can burn our trash. Canteen cup is a little heavy fer backpackin'. A little wierd for canoe-campin'. Hated those SST trays.