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Great pics Al.

I'm too tired to rewrite the whole thing, but you can see the latest pics and read the story of the Slow Boat's biggest adventure to date.

http://www.canoetripping.net/forums/for ... ncook-lake

looks like a quiet ride . thanks for sharing .

What a feeling that must be moving across the water in something that beautiful that you made. All of the memories of the build, engineering, mistakes, successes ... must be almost magical!

Thanks for sharing these, I for one, am enjoying the trip!

Any damage to the slow boat when you hit what ever you hit?

In my youth we would use the canoe tipped on its side for shelter with a tarp on the ground and blanket to cover. LOTs of bug spray which we would wash off in the river with ivory soap(the old ones floated don't know about the new ones). Tents back in the day were expensive and heavy canvas which we couldn't afford and too heavy to portage with.

Thanks for sharing!

Ed

Thanks all! It was satisfying to use all that homemade gear— not just the Slow Boat, but the reflector oven and the cooler (NYETI). As to the cooler, it was 9.5 days between coming out of the freezer and getting home. I had frozen two 5 liter water bags and I still had about a 1/4 of the ice left! Also, NYETI only took on a couple of tablespoons of water after its unscheduled dunking and river ride.

But my greatest appreciation is of the Slow Boat herself. She brought me home after a mishap. There’s a deep outside scratch on the outside of her where I think where we hit. The scratch got into the first exterior glass layer, but I don’t think it is into the second exterior glass layer and I’m virtually certain it isn’t into the wood. We kept on for another 25 miles and two days after the incident without any evident structural damage or water intrusion.

After three summers of increasingly rough usage there are many superficial scratches in her. I will be doing some sanding and revarnishing this winter and if I need to make a patch/repair to the fiberglass/epoxy, I will do it.

It's canoeing season again and I'm working on some new skills, as seen in this video.

https://youtu.be/lxszJwNlLCQ

algale wrote:It's canoeing season again and I'm working on some new skills, as seen in this video.

https://youtu.be/lxszJwNlLCQ

Nicely done!

Hope there wasn't any "B" roll of you falling in the creek...

algale wrote:It's canoeing season again and I'm working on some new skills, as seen in this video.

https://youtu.be/lxszJwNlLCQ

So you are changing from wood working to cinematography? Lovely.

RFGuy wrote: Nicely done!

Hope there wasn't any "B" roll of you falling in the creek...

Nope, no swimming occurred!

jsburger wrote:
So you are changing from wood working to cinematography? Lovely.

Ha! Nope. It sure is easier, however, than woodworking.