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    Twist in the boat.

    Over the past year or so, I've been building a Point Bennet sea kayak, stitch and glue. I had to lay it out from a table of offsets, and although I strived to be very thorough in my measurements, I had great difficulty getting it to come together nicely without humps and bumps. Now that I have...
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    Broken Group Islands - Lots of pics

    I'm a little late in putting this together. A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I along with 4 other couples spent a week kayaking the Broken Group Islands. They are located on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, at the mouth of Barkley Sound and are part of the Pacific Rim National Park. As...
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    Dump Cake

    I'm sure all you Dutch Oven Gordon Ramseys have tried this. We do this one at scouts fairly often. It's a good selling feature to the parents of new kids. Dutch Oven Briquets 1 box cake mix (usually the kind that doesn't require eggs). 1 jar/can apple pie filling 1 can root beer Mix the cake...
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    Winter camping in a hammock

    I'm looking for some advice from you seasoned hammock campers. This weekend my scout troop went winter camping up the mountain behind Vancouver. (Same place they held the mogul race and snowboard races at the Olympics). My kids were either in snow caves or a snow trench with a tarp roof. We...