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Which brings us full circle back to the "camp spat". After all the edifying insights included in this thread I decided to modify the spat. The mod will free up about maybe a cubic quarter inch of space in my solo kitchen bag but it was satisfying to ruminate on the expansion of the boundaries of...

I've made/used several stick stoves but have settled on the aluminum sterno folding stove. I made a few mods to it and can use it as a very nice stick stove or with an alcohol burner, bio fuel, and even sterno. Has a grill on top, folds flat, and only cost me five bucks. I've used it from north...

Oh yea, I also use plastic planters peanut jars and plastic V8 jars as water bottles. Add those to the list.

I'll go out on a limb here and say nothing that is cheap, re-purposed, multi-purposed, older'n hell, belonged to your grandma or grandpa, or the subject of a YT gear review, is "goofy". If you ain't spattin',' you ain't campin'. Feel free to add other non-goofy gear to the list. We already have...

I'm sorry fellas, my non-stick pan question was tongue-in-cheek. I put those pans in the same category as the spork. And that category would be "goofy".

Sparkey, just what is this "non-stick pan" you speak of?

The invention of the camp "spat": I gave up on the plethora of goofy camp cooking/eating utensils (spork??) some time ago. It hit me one day, while painting shutters, that a good 1" SS paint scraper would make a great spatula and mouth shovel. So off to the hardware store I go. I purchased...

That'll preach!

Sorry Chuck, didn't mean to denigrate (I think I used that word correctly)that approach to stringing a ridge line. I tie off my RL to the near side of the first tree, walk it over the near side of the second tree then spiral it around the trunk once or twice about four inches higher. Then I run...

Damn! Shaved 7 seconds off a two minute task! Seriously though, that's a good option if you want your ridgeline outside the tarp. I prefer mine inside so I can hang/clip stuff to it.

I use dryer lint soaked in just a wee bit of Vaseline and store it in an old 35m film canister. That and a Ferro rod stay in my pocket when I'm out "adventuring". BTW saving old film canisters was one of the best "these could come in handy" things I've ever done!

Please take lots of pics. I've long admired this boat and am looking forward to your build reports.

Beautiful story. I gave a boat that I had just finished reconditioning (for no apparent reason) to a guy who was separated from his wife (and consequently from his kids). I told him to take his boy paddling/fishing. That little plywood boat assisted in reuniting that family. No apparent...

Hey Slim, Doc Patterson here. Was Binging my way across cyber space when this thread washed up in the surf. I'm the guy that made your pirogue. I'm happy you've enjoyed it and hope you've had the chance to build your own. I agreed to build/donate a boat for the 1st Piney Woods Picnic as a...

Haven't ever heard of a canoe saddle...can ya describe it?

Drawn her sides-as-cut at 15'6". I figure that should give her LOA of about 15'. Drawn beam at 32". Instead of stems on the last boat I stitched her loosely and ran a 3/4 dowel through the cable ties on the inside of bow/stern after laying in thick fillet. Then drew cable ties tight and...

Okay...got it rough sketched. Going with 1.5"-bow and 1.0"-stern on Matt's counsel and Ron's endorsement. Y'all have never steered me wrong before. And regarding the extension on the work shed...already extended it once and the boss and the neighbor didn't like it. Seems the boss doesn't...

Thanks fellas. Now I gotta go rip out a tool cabinet I built into my work shed so I'll have room to get a 15-footer out when it's finished.

Thanks fellas, I appreciate any help I can get. I've been paddling canoes and sailing skiffs for a long time. And then, I built an 8' pirogue as a toy box for our first grandbaby. Don't you know my son (bassfisherman who likes to fish beaver sloughs and "lost" farm ponds) took it fishing...

Hey folks, I'm a new to the forum and a novitiate to boatbuilding (on just my second boat). I'm currently drawing plans for a 15 - 16 foot sailing pirogue. Question: is there any standing equation/formula/incantation for determining and plotting rocker?