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Y'all may know this already, but a modern replica of a Greek Trireme was built in the Athens area, and crewed by oarsmen recruited from modern competition rowing. It achieved quite respectable speeds and was generally a success. Because the ram was backed by a sturdy wooden extension, I don't...

tx river rat---- in whitewater kayaking circles, there is an imaginary playboat known as the POP, or Piece of Plywood. You could glass it if you want, but try it first so you know whether you want to spend for the FG and epoxy. :mrgreen:

I haven't seen technical info on the "chemical" bond versus "physical" bond issue. West does say that there may be an advantage for subsequent epoxy coats to go on before the previous coat has "set" so that amine blush does not interfere. I've done that, and it works. I don't see any reason...

Not sure what they mean by "precoat all plywood parts before fiberglassing." Do they mean precoat, let the epoxy set hard, prepare the surface, and then glass? That's going to risk unnecessary epoxy thickness between wood and glass. Do they mean paint the epoxy on first, and while it is...

Grays Creek---- Is that the Amite tributary, with a USGS gauge where hwy 16 crosses the creek? Looks a bit busy on the maps, but I guess you all found enough solitude.

Last spring we were staying on Dauphin Island SW of Mobile, AL, and I had brought a canoe along. Many streams were too low due to persistent drought. I decided to try the lower Escatawpa, which snakes back and forth along the Mississippi-Alabama border before joining the Pascagoula. I planned to...

My grandmother died in Waco, though not in the final assault and conflagration. :|

What section was that? I don't want to re-read "Goodbye to a River" just to figure out where "The Falls" is located.

Thanks, shikeswithcanoe. I actually have greenwave on my favorites list. Last spring we met the New Orleans contingent of my family on Dauphin Island. I had hoped to go over and try Blackwater, Coldwater, or something, but the water levels were so low with the drought. So I ended up...

The boat is a Mad River Synergy. "Synergy" is also what Mad River called their series of sit-on-top fishing kayaks. But the original Synergy was a Tom Foster design, a tandem whitewater canoe kind of like the older MR "ME" but asymmetrical and swedeform. It makes a nice solo cruiser on...

Back in the 1600s and 1700s, Italian harpsichords were made of cypress---even the soundboards. The resistance of cypress to rot and woodworm meant that an unusually large number of Italian harpsichords survived to modern times. Italian harpsichord cases were like pirogues, thin and light, and...

A lot of Old Sparkeys may have run Okatoma. Just want to provide some pics for those who haven't run it. Also posted on SOTP. We often travel from Atlanta to New Orleans and back, to visit our daughter and family. The trip takes about 9 hours on interstate, and I often take a canoe along...

This has been interesting to me, even though I have not built a wooden boat, and my wooden paddles mostly didn't involve drilling or nailing. But I've built some keyboard instruments from kits, and because kit builders seldom own enough clamps, the instructions sometimes involved nailing...

Kayak Jack said, " A blunt [stern], like say a transom for an outboard motor, will leave a heck of a stream of turbulence (read drag) behind it. As it gets narrower and sharper, that turbulence and accompanying drag are diminished. It becomes more hydrodynamically clean and streamlined."...

What beekeeper provides is related to my line of argument, though different in emphasis. Another way of trying to look at it. You choose a length and width of hull. As your boat passes through the water, how should the bow and stern be shaped to push the water aside and allow it to return...

I probably shouldn't wake a thread that has been sleeping quietly since last April, but I wanted to fill out the picture of why a swedeform hull is "faster." Kayak Jack said, " A Swede form is more hydrodynamically clean in the front, but not as clean in the aft end. The more blunt rear end...

Kayak Jack-- Here's an example of what is being reported for Louisiana. I've not been up there to see it. http://www.americanwhitewater.org/conte ... tab-photos Mick- We used to have a poster on Boatertalk named FatOldBastard from Australia. There's half-a-dozen from Australia who post on...

"I see you're running a Royalex boat configured for white water. Interesting." - kayak jack The boat is a Mad River Synergy, a 15' tandem/solo whitewater boat MR marketed back around 1998. (Later they made a sort of fishing kayak and called it "Synergy".) This canoe makes a surprisingly...

I didn't see any campgrounds along the creek, but there's at least one outfitter upstream that probably hosts camping. There may be camping in the parklands along the canal.

This is an experiment, a trip report I posted previously on SOTP. I want to see if all the pictures blow your server. Moderators feel free to delete the report if it strains your resources. Often at this time of the summer we drive from Atlanta to Boston to visit a friend. We take the canoe...