Welcome aboard, Dale! I look forward to meeting you and Luna next month in Cathlamet. http://www.coots.org/mb/Solstice/ -- John (jkohnen@...) If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the

An old beatup canoe like that isn't worth bothering about keeping original. Do what you gotta do to make it work for you. http://www.andrewlinn.com/2018/180508_klickitat/index.htm I think old beatup

Have no fear, we all know the Lawyers on both sides are having a great time, and are somewhere in this. Former district attorney, hah again !! Someplace on the instructions, or set up paperwork is

From what I read the purchasers did not know why it was in there and apparently the clerks didn't know either. When I first got a sea kayak I did not know about the foam in the bow. Took it to a

Be careful who you're selling stuff to. ;o) "Orrio, a former Marion County deputy district attorney, and McCallum decided to try the kayaks for the first time and launched into the Santiam River near

Sounds like there were a couple of numbskulls at the Salem Dick's. <sigh> Old Town used to be a fine company, now they're selling el cheapo plastic kayaks whose flotation can be mistaken for packing

That's one take on it. I looked at a couple videos and reviews of the Old Town Trip 10 kayaks and saw nothing one way or the other about foam flotation - nothing in Old Town's promos about them,

Maybe the idiots this time were the store employees who removed the flotation foam from the kayaks? Wonder if the poked holes in the shell using those screwdrivers? Hank

People suing Dicks Sporting Goods because they dumped their kayaks http://katu.com/news/local/salem-residents-sue-dicks-sporting-goods-for-455k-after-kayaks-sink

Unfortunately the CO2 bottles are far from standard. <sigh> That's why the refill kits are so expensive. If the CO2 bottle in your PFD looks OK, it almost surely is. Unscrew it and check around the

Hah !! I do have some extra pills from the dealer, co/2 is a standard canister I think, and I have several of the green trigger pieces saved – someplace, maybe ?? Time to check in any case.

My experience with auto-inflating lifejackets is that the pills deteriorate and become susceptible to disintegrating and setting off the inflater when you're NOT in the water -- it's just damp out.

Dennis is no longer building boats and we are clearing out stuff! Here's a list of items up for grabs: John Welford Penquin boat plans-complete set Bevin Skiff plans Blue & white sail- 140" x155" x

I've come into possession of a Klicatat Canoe - fairly small at around 15', heavily built of fiberglass. It has great big spade ends on it (like the Squaw canoe I used to own) but worst of all, it is

Thanks john, also time to re power the life jacket inflation devices. Even if not used, you never know, and they are rated for annual replacement in most cases. The “pill” gets too hard to

I just stumbled upon this story from last summer. Wear your lifejackets, you never know when another f***ing moron in an overpowered speedboat will come along.

I plan on attending the event, trailering my Scamp LUNA all the way from Vancouver, BC... and spending the following week cruising the lower Columbia to Astoria and back. Looking forward to meeting

I updated the page on coots.org for the event: http://www.coots.org/mb/Solstice/ We DO NOT need the Washington invasive species permit to boat around

The address Goofle (an apt typo this time <g>) Maps gave me for Scott Coleman's office was for his old office on the north side of the road. Don't punch that one into your GPS. The marker on the Fern

Potluck feed at 7:00, general meeting at 7:30, at the TYC clubhouse by Scott Coleman's office at Underway, LLC, 29811 Clear Lake Road, near the corner of Clear Lake Rd. and Hwy. 99, a bit north of