Recent content by MarshallM

Spider, your Cree outfitting and tourism link is a keeper as well. Funny that you mention the Manicouagan Reservoir, as i was going to suggest a circumnavigation trip as one that might be interesting in a kayak. Haven't had the opportunity to go farther east on rt. 138 than Sept-Illes...

Spider, the link below provides information for the James Bay Road. I have not yet driven it, but the road will take you up to Radisson, Quebec, and could be useful in planning a Belcher Island trip on the east side of Hudson Bay. FWIW, at some point, i hope to paddle up the eastern side of the...

Spider, i also keenly followed David Demello's trip on the eastern side of James/Hudson Bays, where he planned to do the huge open water crossing to the Belcher Islands. David and his wife Juanita, as you may know, are very experienced northern canoe travelers, so i was quite surprised that he...

I haven't paddled either James Bay or Hudson Bay, although we were pretty close in the early 1980s on the lower Missinaibi River canoe trip. In the canoe tripping community, the western shore of both James Bay and Hudson Bay is known to be a very dangerous place to paddle. Many canoeists have...

Phenomenal TR! Congratulations on the race result as well. You and your fellow racers must be finely tuned paddling machines to paddle up to 18 hours per day in a race situation. marshall

Regardless of Gil's water craft of choice, he should certainly be congratulated given that he completed the trip with a heart condition and was also the oldest to do so. Mighty inspirational, i'd say. marshall

Am going to have to agree with with Nessmuk and sardog1 on the portaging issue. Of course, as was mentioned, a huge advantage of using a canoe on the NFCT is cargo space. In fact, it should theoretically be possible to complete the entire 740 miles in a full-size tandem canoe (paddled solo, if...

They weren't portaging Coleman canoes, but below is a link to a trip that 5 young ladies did in 2008 from Great Slave Lake in Canada's NWTs to Coronation Gulf on the Arctic Ocean. Believe the trip took about 2 months, and the crux of the trip, in my mind, was an ambitious 50-mile overland route...

Believe you are spot on with your observations about the kevlar version of the Explorer. Had the good fortune to use one on the upper Missinaibi trip (Ontario) a few years ago and was much impressed with the finer lines, stiffer hull and obviously the lighter weight (about 20 lbs less than the...

About that Explorer slur...oh, what blasphemy! :) IMHO, the MR Explorer is a canoe that doesn't really do any one thing exceedingly well, but short of serious ocean paddling it can do pretty much everything to a reasonable degree. One of the outstanding general purpose ABS canoes (the Vermont...

Sounds like good advice, sardog1. The other thing about both Penobscot canoes that i find appealing is that they are very fast for ABS canoes, as you and Spencer are likely well aware. Believe a strong solo paddler could keep pace with many tandem paddled canoes in that 16 foot boat. marshall

Its about the trips My fleet of two ABS canoes consist of a Mad River Explorer (1983) and a Mad River Courier (1985). Both canoes have more than paid for themselves over the years and are still providing adequate service. Personally, i would rather spend the money doing trips as apposed to...

Papa Bear, i have never ascended Webster Stream but have paddled down it 5 times with the last trip being about 15 years ago (so my experience is a little dated). BTW, it is a beautiful section of river. A couple of things might conspire against you and make the trip up river a little...

American Whitewater site: http://www.americanwhitewater.org/content/River_state-summary_state_NY_

Quite an impressive accomplishment! Congratulations!