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. . . anybody built one? I've been going through Matt's website and, dude, you've got some fantastic canoes in there ! :D The Gander River must track like a freight train, but how does the long aft keel effect steering?

Had one more brief recall from the olden days: Paregoric. Also known as "camphorated tincture of opium". I think it, in the 50s, must have been The Worn-Out Parent's Best Friend. Now, I didn't grow up to become much of an addict or anything. But I DO have some fond and fuzzy memories of paregoric.

When going across or up into the wind, you aint gonna like having a sail on the downwind ama, unless the amas are nearly as bouyant (big) as the canoe, because the sail will just sink the ama and the whole boat will trip over it and try to flip. I think you need to find a dissertation on Center...

I don't recall a doodle bug song, but I spent hours and hours messing with those cone-shaped holes. Knocking in a few grains of sand and watching the doodle bug kick em back out. My gramma had an old wooden garage with a dirt floor, and it looked like a minature war zone with all those DB holes...

I recall most of that. Also, horney toads. There were thousands of them in Central Texas in the 50s. Tobacco spitters they were, too. You could flip them over and rub their bellies and they went right to sleep, or let you think they did. I remember "Borden's Bid N Buy," i believe it was...

Bear, are you an old newspaper man? If so, where bouts? (I did my time in Bangs, Brownwood, San Angelo, Lubbock and Austin, Texas; Boulder, Colorado; and San Diego, Californya). -30-

Dreaming, I know, but . . . http://www.west.net/~lpm/hobie/archives ... umor.shtml