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I remember you. Hope your trip was good too. Nipigon is an amazing place. BIG water. Hope to get back there sooner rather than later.

a 21 ft Whitehall. Old, traditional wooden row/sail boat. If you want to see some history of the Whitehall, here's a video: th-cam.com/video/gcNhCQMa9eE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=bTO2F8IOxvUgEHWf Or do a search for 'Whitehall boat' on TH-cam or internet.

Awesome thanks!

Yes. Enough juice to charge motor battery (and make coffee in electric pot every morning).

@@EricREvans that’s amazing how many batteries and what brand of batteries?btw I loved the video,I fished lake Nipigon a few times in a 22 foot trophy and it was intimidating at times,that’s amazing how you navigated around in your skiff,I loved the video,I’ll be sharing it with my fishing buddies!

@@richarddear2568 Tim, my trip partner says the storage or “house” battery is a Dakota Lithium LiFePo 24V, 50Ah. That company has a more current model that is 55Ah, he thinks. Motor has its own battery. Storage batter is a separate “Dakota” battery that is shown in the first few minutes of the video. Solar panels charged the Dakota Lithium battery and motor battery charged with combination of current from solar panels and Dakota Lithium battery. With physics and electricity working, faster boat speeds consumed much more power (power vs boat speed NOT linear). Going 1-2 mph, we could almost go forever with panels up. Going 5 mph, we drained batteries (motor and Dakota storage/house battery) pretty fast. We generally cruised around 3.5-4 mph most of the time. Of course, wind and bigger waves had effect on efficiency of the system as well.

Never caught a laker of the right size at the right time of the day, so we did not dine on any. As non-Canadians with a Conservation license, we were not allowed to keep/eat any of the brookies/specks. And, we were there before walleye opener, so did not really target walleyes at all. So, whole trip was catch and release. Next time....

We were mostly trolling 3-4 mph with floating or shallow lures running 3-12 feet deep. Saw a LOT of fish we think were lake trout on our fish finder at 80-120 feet deep on clouds of bait fish.

Did not cook/eat any. Catch and release.

We were there prior to walleye opener, so did not really target walleye. Did not catch one either. Next time would like to get to Rea Lake on Shakespeare and a few other spots for walleye during season.

This was Tim’s boat (the one of us that caught all the big lake trout in the video). I asked him about who built the boat and where he got the plans., here is his answer: “The designer was Bruce King. It’s his adaptation of the 20-ft Boston Whitehall in the Mystic Seaport Museum (or maybe just the plans are there). King gave the keel a bit of rocker and cut back the vertical stem a bit, which makes it easier to maneuver as a pleasure craft. I had a traditionally built 17-ft Boston Whitehall previously from the design in John Gardner’s book. Great boat also, but a bit hard to maneuver. A craftsman in South Bristol who did fine interior cabinetry work on King-designed yachts had the plans and built the 20-ft boat for me about 15 years ago. It’s a lovely design, but you wouldn’t want to go near the guy who built this boat.” Thanks for your question. Hope Tim’s answer helps you.

We had no bear or moose issues. Saw the one moose in Henry’s Harbor on Kelvin Island. Saw no bears. We saw moose prints almost everywhere we went to shore and often moose prints on the bottom in shallow harbors/bays. Saw bear tracks on a sand beach in a harbor on Kelvin Island that were probably a few days old. Never saw the bear, though. We slept on the boat and did all of our cooking on the boat as well, so that likely minimized chances of bear encounters. I think there might be greater chances of meeting a bear if you camp at one of the established campsites on the islands.

Noted. GoPro12, iPhone and and old Fuji camera at 1080 res 60 fps all used on this trip. I have had issues uploading finished video to TH-cam (very long upload and processing times). Have checked and this video (as is usual with YT) initially uploaded in standard definition (SD) and then took several hours to finish processing to HD (1080). You may have watched this video before the processing to HD (1080) was finished. Also, when watching on my desktop, was not pleased with resolution even AFTER HD processing was completed and found out by checking settings button in YT player, resolution was at 720. Had to change player to 1080 and then resolution was better. In future, goal is to get videos to 4K res. Should be able to do that with the GoPro12.

Glad you liked it and got to see your dad in his element.

Have a good trip! I find TH-cam videos others have done helpful when planning trips; like to pay it forward a bit with my trip videos. Parking area at Beaverhouse was more crowded than I expected. Still plenty of room for parking. Road in is OK, but narrow and rutted/rocky in many places with several “blind” corners. Go slowly. Water levels were a bit low last fall, so portage from parking area to Beaverhouse was longer than I expected (about double the length). We saw more people than I had expected as well. Still, great to be out there!

Yes, adding resin will make canoe heavier. More coats = more weight, but more protection. Would guess canoe shown in this video was 2-4 pounds heavier after the two coats. Could do no coats at all and just let the canoe wear through. One coat. Two coats or more, I guess. Like most things in life, it was a trade off. In retrospect, I would likely have NOT added resin coat up the sides as it was unnecessary in my opinion and didn't add value, especially for the added weight. Canoe is still doing trips, now 8 years since I did this repair/coating. Holding up well.

Thanks for the comment. I agree. Did this repair 7 years ago now. Learned a lot. Has held up very well, but if I ever do this again, would use polyester resin. That said, I am old. Would likely sell this canoe and put $ toward a new canoe if there ever is a “next time” for me. (Bought canoe in this video in 1993. Did re-coat in 2016, 23 years after initial purchase. Might need another re-coat in 2039 if I am not in nursing home by then. 😝) I continue to be somewhat amazed at how many views this old video gets. Must be a lot of folks with beat up old Kevlar canoes in this world!

You were misinformed. Kevlar canoes are made with vinyl ester resin. Older, heavier fiberglass boats were made with polyester--its old technology . Epoxy has excellent adhesion.

Hard to believe it has been 7 years since I did this re-coat and made the video. Epoxy coating has held up very well. No delaminating or peeling. I am about to take the same canoe on a BWCA trip in June 2023; about 7 weeks from now. I will post a video of that trip, probably in July. I think I have more than got the value out of the canoe purchase: bought in 1993 for around $1595 new. Picked it up at Wenonah factory and took it on its first trip to the BWCA the next week. 1-2 trips to BWCA a year for 30 years. Average of 8-9 days a trip, so maybe 50 trips X 8 days/trip average = 400 days in BWCA. So, around $4 per day. And, I could probably sell the canoe for around what I paid for it in ‘93. 🏕😀

Fantastic! Thank you and happy paddling!

Thanks for your comments! Tent in that video is a Marmot Limelight (3-person). An older model of that tent. Very roomy for 2 people. Bent poles make side walls more vertical and interior much more roomy. My spouse likes it. Easy setup too. Good for canoe trips; I would not (do not) use it when backpacking. On backpacking trips or canoe trips with other groups, I have converted to hammock camping (Kammok brand, Mantis hammock system). I do like to cook and eat well on BWCA trips. 😃 Disappointed in the bug shelter. Love it in almost all ways but not being waterproof really disappointing. Would probably keep you dry in a light mist, but NOT in any kind of moderate to heavy rain. Have not used it since that trip; may try it again in summer 2023.

You, me, Dustin Hoffman, Roger Federer (all born on 8/8)! I try my best to be out in the wilderness on my birthday! Have spent a few in the BWCA.

My brother and I and his high-school buddy who used to fly up to Saganagons before it became a park did the Falls chain about 20 years ago. We were able to zip through the falls chain in a 3-man canoe and single trip portage. We paddled to Cowa Bay. It was dead calm . We spotted an eagle up ahead. After we passed it. The eagle flew up further down the shoreline. Where we passed by it again. Once again it flew up ahead. When we arrived at Cowa Bay. The eagle was sitting in the same tree where you filmed it. At that time the eagles nest was further back in a dead tree. We sat right there and caught a bunch of little walleyes. My brother decided to try and feed the eagle. So he caught a fish. Banged its head on the gunnel a few times and through it up on shore. In the middle of his wind-up. The eagle was already launching itself to swoop down and plucked up the fish. We have fed eagles a half dozen times. If you are going to film it. Have your camera recording before doing anything. I have missed some great shots by not being ready. Have the person not handling the fish doing the recording. Our last trip we fed the same eagle 4 times in 45 minutes. The first time my brother got out of the canoe he cut the fishes throat then turned to get into the canoe. The eagle dropped out of the tree and picked up the fish 5 feet behind my brother butt. The next time. My brother put the fish down and stepped back 10 feet. The eagle swooped in while he was standing there. The third time we couldn't see the eagle so threw the bass up on the same rock. Two minutes later it swooped in from the opposite direction and surprised us. It said "thank you" on the way back to eats eating tree. We fed it one more time. It was getting pretty dark. I lined up the eagle with a rock in-between us. My brother threw the fish up un the rock. The eagle was supposed to fly straight towards the camera. Unfortunately the eagle had shifted trees without our notice. But it did fly straight towards my brother. He got a great view. We have stayed at your last campsite on Saganagons. If you have plans of heading back up there . I can share some nice fishing spots. I hope to be in the area in June. Thanks for bringing back memories

Thanks for your kind words. “Falls Chain” video and Canyonlands series are maybe my favorite outdoor trips/videos.

@@EricREvans are you trying to grow your channel? If so, I will repost.

It's amazing that it was recommended to me. Thank God!

@@juststeph6701 Feel free to share. I’m not that into the whole TH-cam channel/viewership/numbers thing. Don’t care and use TH-cam mostly to share the beauty of the outdoors and be helpful to people planning trips. Thanks.