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I'm a big guy at 6' 2"/270 with size 16 feet that don't fit well in small boats. Take this with that context and all the grains of salt appropriate, but 10' is awfully small. I know space and weight are priorities, but if you can get to 12', I think you'll have a more comfortable and...

Out here there is a local community-based non profit that does inserts out of pine and plastic film. You may be able to contact them for their training materials or designs. Local volunteers get trained to measure windows and crank out the inserts. They for free or low cost to low-income...

I've got a huge pile of storm damaged tree limbs and now a lot of stuff from my garden that is too big to compost stacked up in a burn pile. It's been at least 5 weeks I've been unable to get a burn permit, and at this point I suspect I can't burn until we have a snowpack on the ground.

I am considering a new shotgun, and looking hard at the Franchi Infinity. I love my Franchi O/U, and am sick of my Beretta 3901's failures to feed in cold and damp weather. They offer the Infinity in a variety of camo options, all of them with both plain and Cerakote versions, with the...

You still in Maine? 78 yesterday, and chilly 71 high today at my house.

Funny. My senior year of high school me and a buddy decided it was a good idea to sneak outside for a dip, and were stupid enough to come back inside with the dip still in our mouths. Our French teacher intercepted us in the hall, and--pretending he did not notice we both had tobacco in our...

When I first moved back to Maine, while looking for full-time work I took a job a a long-term substitute biology teacher at a private high school. I had previously taught high school biology for 3 years at an all boys Catholic school, and was tagged to fill in for a woman who had a pregnancy...

One thing to add--my boat's hull is much more rounded from its widest beam, with the center of boat much deeper than the bow and stern. Yours has a bit of curve, but is much flatter. My skeg is both longer and taller than yours, and runs from just aft of the point of widest beam and deepest...

MMB Gunning Float covers a lot of boats made by a lot of different people to hunt a lot of diverse areas in a big bay fed by 2 big rivers, 4 small ones, and a half dozen smaller tidal creeks. Some use them to scull up 6' wide freshwater (but tidal) creeks; others hunt them down near Bath where...

Boats, shotguns, fly rods, canoe paddles . . . . How many do you need? Just one more.

Not that storm, but an award-winning short story based on a real event here in Maine. This was required reading in middle school English classes when I was growing up, and it still makes me think any time I anchor or tie off a boat in the cold-water season...

I'm a big fan of Sealine bags, but they all work. Because they are roll-top, being too big is really not a problem, so when in doubt, order the next size up. I got some fantastic roll-top backpacks as close-outs from Sierra Trading Post that are about 40 liters and make great canoe bags with a...

C'mon! You guys have Trenton! True story--25 years after my short Jersey residence, I was informed by the Maine DMV that it didn't matter to them, but my license to drive was suspended in NJ. So I call NJ to find out what the problem was. It took me about 5 calls to get someone who would...

One week between the draw notification and deadline to take the test and purchase the permit? That seems awfully short, regardless of your friend's circumstances. Is there any good reason to make the timeline so short?

Carl--glad you and yours are already evacuated. Even with some weakening, this is looking like an enormous storm. My brother-in-law is still waiting to hear plans from some of his family members.

Cat 5 update a few minutes after the 10 am forecast. Get out while you can.

I've got in-laws in the Tampa Bay area who are very worried as this approaches. Category 4 as of this morning, and the forecast track looks very bad for Tampa.

Geez, Eric, do you do anything on your weekends anymore but plough through old duck-boaty references that have been digitized? Just in the last few weeks you've pulled together a lot of great historical material!

Well done, sir!

Have you walked them up in Maine? All my sora hunting has been down in Merrymeeting Bay's rice and bullrush flats. The birds are hard to find except at high tides where they concentrate in the thickest patches of floating rice. In the early season, it's good way to kill the dead time for...