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Thanks Lisa. I always wonder about how long the painter should be and whether to secure it. On one hand, not having a line makes it very difficult to hold onto the boat. On the other, I’ve gotten tangled up while swimming and that was scary.

Great stuff! I came away with two things that I don't do that I will begin to do!

Lisa, i love these videos. Great format. Excellent catch phrase. (Look at the camera lens though, please, not the screen). Thumbs up on "spread the word..." I am trying! Huge tip to use a stop weird, thank you! I'd consider myself somewhat of a beginner canoeist, perhaps a bit more as I'm still within my first 2-3 seasons, though I've paddled kayaks for over 10 years, and I've been around "high stress environments" throughout life. Excellent tips on using simple, single words, but i also like to differentiate the words more because, Cross, Draw, Halt, Stop, Go, all can sound so similar in an emergency situation. Especially with different accents, like on a guided trip. (Like Ha and Gee are completely different for dogs to hear) Please let us know if you have other great commands that fit this, which are also common daily words so our partners are not learning new words, trying to remember them when stressed. (I.e. not port & starboard if they aren't already sailors). I do use "right" or "back" because of this.

Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom and skillset! After consuming all of your videos and about a dozen practice trips my family and I did our first overnight canoe camping trip a few weeks ago in the Delaware Water Gap to huge successes, particularly the camp kitchen set up you spent several videos on. We moved from CA to NJ this spring and it's our first foray in water activities so thank you again for all of the wisdom you're passing down to me that I get to pass down to my two daughters. We have a whole new set of outdoor adventures to make memories about.

Thanks . I like your channel very informative

Hello from Scotland... thanks for tutorial.

We need a detailed video on your sharpening process. Great videos.

quality of video is only 360 p? ugggg no good on my tv..

Could you use a rope stretched taut between rwo trees instead of a pole?

We're buying one!!!

What tarp is that?

Great stuff Lisa.. ty! Wondering your thoughts on using a Bent Shaft paddle?

303 is Good Stuff!

My Kevlar canoe is heavily oxidized from 20 years of being stored outside. Ugly as sin but floats as well as it ever did, so I mostly don't worry about cosmetics. I did try a turtle wax marine polish a few years ago but it didn't make much of a difference. So my question is...does the 303 do anything beyond make an old canoe look pretty? Does it provide uv protection and potentially extend the life of the hull?

Very nice lisa

I used to use Armor All on my old Old Town 169 (Royalex)...does 303 do the same thing?

Great job 👍🏻. Wondering if you have a link to the hat you wear?

I took the trip I mentioned a couple weeks ago with my daughter in our tripper 172. Got the new seats built this week, just have to get the longer bolts. I'm enjoying this series! Looking forward to seeing you hang the new seats & get rid if the roto molded ones.

Terrific video! I’d hire you in a heartbeat, Ms Lisa!

If water filters were used, flush them out with clean water with a bit of bleach added (or whatever the manufacturer recommends) and let them drain good. If your tents or tarps are damp open them up and dry them well in the sun, wiping any dirt off. Dampness breeds mold which’ll eat holes in your stuff.

This is one of the better Poling videos. Watch it more than once to see and hear all great instruction comments. I just got a very old 12' White canoe, called the Whitepond (a forerunner of Old Towne); flat bottom, 40" wide, material like Royalex. I cut a 12' bamboo pole and glued/taped a heavy rubber plug in one end, and I'm going to try to pole it on a shallow, all rock portion of the Potomac river at Riverbend Park (above Great Falls).

Just picked one up in Minnesota and love it! Very new to canoeing. As a matter of fact it is my first boat. Have kayaks and paddled Hawaiian outriggers but first one of this type. I think I got a great deal but wish I would have seen your video first. Many great adventures ahead 😊

Why do you use the camper? How versatile is it for remote rivers in Alaska and the Yukon ?

This is the first time I've heard anyone say "nice and flat". I've spent a lot of time trying to tweak an old glass canoe with a center rib into something not flat. As expected, it was either flat or hogged. Or both.

I didn’t know about the knee in gut trick lol

Thanks Lisa

Thanks! I really enjoyed your series on canoeing in the wind. This was the first time I heard your mph scale, excellent! I really appreciate your focus on using lake features and keeping your group together. We use rafting a lot on slow moving Colorado rivers to help struggling paddlers going into the wind. The challenge we face is that the canoes are more likely to fill with water from the waves in between the boats. I assume you run into this also on lakes and prefer a swamped platform to individual flipped boats.

Once again, you have taught me something. Thanks for that and for the video.

Some great information thanks

Poled a river for the first time this weekend to go upstream. Did a mile and thought I was getting it. Got two thirds past a swift water section and I lost the bow, the boat turned, and I went for a swim. Officially a poler now, I think.

Thanks for sharing

Have just watched the video. Could you please give the length and width of the leather. Could you also give the distance the holes are from the edge and how far apart the holes are from each other. Thank you.

Great series… can’t wait for Part 3!

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience. I have purchased the 14" because of you. Thanks for sharing!

I recently purchased the cook all because of you. Why do you have to get the cook all hot first?

I love your energy! Really enjoying your videos!

In Nova Scotia, Canada here... fall is our absolutely favourite time for canoeing. Cooler temps, less bugs and all those colours.

It gets mighty cold up there. Do you have any advice for cold cracks in ABS?

You should wear gloves for this task. I’ve used. G flex several times with limited success. It claims to stick to all plastic boats, but in my experience you need to use a course sandpaper first to creat a better adhesion. Repairs don’t have to be pretty, they just have to work. I’ve also used G Flex with a thickener on a Kevlar boat to provide a layer on the bow and stern for some abrasion resistance and that has worked great.

I've heard it suggested that regular fiber glass cloth and GFlex can make a decent skid plate, stem guard over the more expensive kevlar ones and fiberglass is easier to work with. I'm interested in the Pathfinder you have. Most if not all my boats have some additional patches on them, nothing shameful about that at all. I get a kick out of seeing those clean fancy boats and not being able to actually use it for all its worth.

Lisa, incase you’re interested, “It’s good in the Woods” posted a video today “Canoe Camping DISASTER strikes” of a very recent pin on the Connecticut river on the Vermont/New Hampshire state line. Everyone is fine. There were no injuries. It was a mild C-2 section of river. He was one of 3 canoes on the trip. He was in the lead canoe and the middle canoe was the one that pinned. Again, there were no injuries. There is no footage of the pin as it occurred but there is footage of the pinned canoe taken immediately after all people and gear were taken to shore.

The ripples on the bottom are called "oil canning". If you search "canoe oil canning" you'll find more info, but my understanding is that it can happen to a canoe that's left outside. Exposure to the sun and frequent freeze/thaw conditions might also be a factor as well as what position the canoe was stored in. I'm fairly new to canoeing, but I happen to come across the term not too long ago while researching the different materials modern canoes are made from and the recommended storage conditions. Thanks for sharing, all your videos are very helpful!

Super helpful video, I was scared of messing up my prized canoe but that looks easy. It's a 1985 Mad River Explorer 16, older than me lol, and I swear it's better than any new canoe for sale regardless of price.

One of my boats is an old Disco 69 with those rotomolded seats. It was a former rental, beat to snot, cracked and repaired. I'm a woodworker and replaced the yoke myself. I'm wondering if you're going to replace the seats with webbing as I've considered doing that for a while for that one.

Love your videos gives me great ideas to apply to my slightly more modern stlye of canoe camping.

Zantac pills work for dogs too when they eat old food in woods, just give them a 1/4 a pill low dose.

Where did you find the small blue food barrels? Have had trouble finding any that small in that style.

“Everything I own is a tool, not a jewel.” Great quote in regards to understanding that using the “tool” will result in “pings and dings”. That said, every mechanic knows that if you take care of your “tools” they will take care of you! I own a camper that I bought gently used, and I’m looking forward to this series!

I raised two Labradors'. One after the other. They put me through absolute hell in a canoe. Especially when I happened to catch a fish. They were just so over stimulated when on the water. Shancy and Shiloh were great dogs for me. Put 'em near the water and all bets were off! I miss them so much.

Love the Camper Canoe I have a older camper too that was the first Canoe I got Love the baking soda hack also just picked up a XL Tripper working on that now