Last Sunday afternoon I took my son for his first time on the water in our canoe since he was about two years old. We paddled about an hour and stopped a couple of times so he could jump in the water. Here’re three photos:
Last week, I reaffixed the peeling edges of three of the Aleut’s keelstrips. This weekend, I’m planning to paddle it for the first time. Here it is on my Volvo wagon’s crossbars. I tried to work out how far apart to space them. Got a couple of cheap foam blocks to serve as hull or deck cradles. Dunno yet whether to cartop it hull-down or deck-up. Regarding the deck, I stupidly applied the wrong 303 product to it last week – the UV protectant that’s intended for hull-type material. It doesn’t seem to have harmed the fabric in any easily discernible way. I’ll get some Fabric Guard soon, though.
For those of you who actually know me, my former telephone number ending in 6642 is no longer active. The same area code and prefix with last four digits 1389 is active. Also, with that phone, I can actually send and receive text messages, although my texting skillset is below average.
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