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-- I got tired of transporting my Peavey bass in the soft gig bag, so I decided to make myself a hard case. Materials are 1/4" plywood for the top and bottom and 1/4" pine boards for the sides. Construction is glue and staples. I didn't think to start taking photos until I was this far into...

Hey guys! Long time, no see! I'll post some kayak related stuff in the other categories tomorrow, but I just finished this project, and thought I'd share it. The gun is a 9mm Springfield Armory XD(m) 3.8 Compact. The sight is a Trijicon RMR RM02 red dot sight.

Here are a few pics from my winter season on Lake Superior. I've managed to get out every month since November, so, November, December, January, February, March, and (soon) April. My goal is to have paddled at least once every month for a year. I missed October, or I'd almost be done. :-[...

Hey Everyone, I wanted to check in and let you know I was still alive. Just have had a ton of stuff on my plate for several months. After I went paddling today I thought, "What better way to say hi than to give everyone a Lake Superior chill!" I went out to Presque Isle in Marquette this...

Just a day paddle today out at Presque Isle here in Marquette. We paddled over to the Picnic Rocks area in 2 - 4+ foot waves and had a blast. I also had the chance to test out the helmet cam that I rigged up. I posted some video of the most exciting part of the day, when a 2 or 3 foot wave...

I got some cash from my in-laws for my birthday and went to Wal-Mart and picked up the last of their Coleman Peak-1 3001 hiking stoves, which they're clearancing now to make way for the Coleman F1 Ultralight stove. Cost was $21.99 and the can of fuel was $4.88. I've heard that REI has it for...

I just got back Friday night from the Apostle Islands in Northern Wisconsin. We spent four days paddling the islands on Lake Superior and put over forty miles under our keels. You can see the complete route that we took on the map below. Day 1: After checking in at the Apostle...

I didn't know whether to post this in the Boat Bragging section or the Trip Reports section, as it has elements of building and traveling, so I settled on the Kayak section. Anticipating our trip to the Apostle Islands in August, I built Prototype #2 of the Madeline 16. The Tandem/Triple was...

I did a 5+ mile paddle last week, launching from the Presque Isle Beach and heading out to and around Partridge Island, then back to Sunset Point on Presque Isle. Nothing too exciting except for the scenery. Waves were calm to two feet, wind was non-existent, and water temps were 35 degrees F...

== I did a six mile paddle on Sunday, including paddling past an 800 foot ore boat. Thought you might like to see the difference. :D BTW, the water temp was 34*F and the air temp was 60*F. I dressed for immersion and I was disgustingly sweaty when I pulled the kayak out of the water...

I compiled my posts from another forum into a writeup on using a carbon/kevlar sleeve to cover a GP. You can find the link below. http://www.blackdogkayaks.com/anduril.html I used it at the pool last night and I really like how it feels. There is a certain traditional feel to a...

I haven't been around here in a while, so I thought I'd show you what we do up here when we get Spring fever. This was last Sunday, out at Presque Isle in Marquette, my first time out on the open water this year. Seal launching was not the big deal that I thought it would be. Getting back...

-- Anytime you leave the pool without drowning is a good pool session! This evening at the pool, which I had all to myself, I missed a roll and came up in the Petrussen and was just floating there, face up, kayak down with my ears under water and my back to the door of the pool area...

You just never know who you're going to run into when you're paddling. And who'd have thought that the Dark Lord of the Sith would use a Greenland paddle? I would have figured him as more of a carbon fiber wing paddle kind of guy.

I just received pics from one of our builders, so I had to brag on him a little bit. I'll post more pics when he puts on the finishing touches. Bruce, from South Dakota, finished his Greenland Style Kayak this past week. He's still waiting on his seat, backband, deck rigging, and trim, as...

Jack asked for info on this so I thought I'd post here and share the info with more than just him. BTW, Jack, I was wrong, and you were right. I had posted info on this here: http://blackdogkayaks.com/forum/YaBB.pl ... 49782415/0 and also somewhere on Sparky's forum. To make flotation bags...

We had a good day out on Lake Superior today. We went up to Big Bay, Michigan, thirty miles north of Marquette. Marquette was getting big thunderstorms and there was talk of a tornado twenty miles out on the lake, but we found mostly sunny conditions at Big Bay. The kids hung out on the beach...

Since the Black Dog Kayak seats don't have a backrest, last night I took some neoprene and scraps of cordura, along with some poly webbing and two 20" bungee cords and sewed up what you see below. I still want to put a webbing adjuster on it to make it adjustable, but for now, the webbing is...

As I've posted before, Black Dog Kayaks is supplying tandem/triple kayaks to two guys who are kayaking the length of the Mississippi River to raise money for children's cancer research. My business partner, Mark, and I went with the River Team, Louis and John, for the first two days of the...