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Not really a canoeist, but...

Not really a canoeist, but...

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    Feb 18, 2018#1

    Always liked open canoes, though my experience is limited: I've rented one on the Gard a couple of times, paddled down to the Pont du Gard. I spend lots of time in that part of France, quite tempted to get a canoe there, mainly for fishing... Speaking of which I rented a canoe on my last trip to Ontario, spend a couple of days on the Saugeen River, delightful though I failed to catch any bass or the huge trout that I saw. But I did build my own a few years ago, always fancied a Selway Fisher stitch & glue since many years ago and finally did it: I spent a winter building a Christine 13' 9" in my freezing cold garage, first time I'd attempted anything like this, and I have to say it turned out well. The picture shows its initiation on a neighbour's pool, with my son (then 12 or 13) as guinea pig. Canoe floated dead level, with one tiny pinhole leak, easily fixed.
    Image: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4708/39576989594 8829d486a6 b.jpg
    Sadly, son grew up fast and wanted to spend time with friends, rather than canoeing with dad - we had a couple of trips on the Dart, Thames, and Langorse Lake... Canoe slightly too big & unwieldy for me to car-top solo, so I sold it...
    Like the idea of another, though - for France rather than S.Devon (I'm near Totnes).
    ps Sorry, still no picture - I suggest in all politeness but very seriously that the owners of this forum do something about the extraordinarily clunky approach to image insertion... But Mal, thanks anyway for your help.

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      Feb 18, 2018#2



      Here ya go Tony.
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        Feb 18, 2018#3

        I suggest in all politeness but very seriously that the owners of this forum do something about the extraordinarily clunky approach to image insertion
        He is trying to - see here - but the limitation is the software that the Forum runs on, coupled with the complexities that the free hosting companies introduce, which I suspect are intended to deter people from posting images on Forums, because they then end up paying for the bandwidth. I pay £25 for web space with a small hosting company and posting my pictures on here is extremely simple. It's the same on most Forums unless they charge the users enough to pay for space to store images on the site.

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          Feb 19, 2018#4

          Chris_B wrote:He is trying to - see here - but the limitation is the software that the Forum runs on, coupled with the complexities that the free hosting companies introduce, which I suspect are intended to deter people from posting images on Forums, because they then end up paying for the bandwidth. I pay £25 for web space with a small hosting company and posting my pictures on here is extremely simple. It's the same on most Forums unless they charge the users enough to pay for space to store images on the site.
          I hear what you say, but I'm very experienced with PCs and Internet forums, have contributed to many over the years, and in all honesty I haven't encountered such an unfriendly system before in posting images! A very few friends & I share a little Quicktopic forum, for instance, and we pay a very nominal sum each year to enable posting images - which is incredibly simple. I've also belonged to various other recreational forums such as shooting, and again, posting images (from one's own HD...) was always very simple...
          rgds Tony

            Feb 19, 2018#5

            Mal Grey wrote:

            Here ya go Tony.
            Many thanks Mal! Sorry the pic crops out one end of the canoe (I'm a pro photographer BTW) but my wife shot the picture... Selway Fisher say the finished Christine should be around 35 lbs but I'm sure mine weighed more. It hurt to sell it, since I was really pleased I'd managed to build a canoe that turned out pretty well, but for solo use I need something smaller. Old Town used to make a plastic job called the Pack, 10', which might even fit inside my Grand C-Max rather than faff around with a roof rack. But I'm tempted to build one myself, again - probably in France where I have more garage & workshop space, and where I'd use a canoe far more.
            rgds Tony

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              Feb 19, 2018#6

              Hi Tony, wonder if your wife saw the no. 9 from Clapham coming before she went under it SMralmao

              Nice canoe in a nice pool though :D
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