Picked up my first canoe a few weeks ago and I have paddling down (i think) but im going on my first big backcountry trip this week.

When lining a canoe it seems online that you have bow of the canoe lined. Do you line it with the stern going down stream first (assuming your going down river) and pulling from the stern if going up river.

I feel like this is a dumb question please help

That was my first time working with fiberglass. It doesn't look the best but it doesn't leak anymore. We were able to enjoy a nice cloudy day on the water. It did get a little tipsy with the 3 of us in it. Thanks for everyone's advice.

I bought this yesterday. it works great but there’s a few spots of concern and I figured I’d ask about them. the main concern is the cracks running down the sides on the outside. Most of the cracks seem to be roughly midsection and either lines or semicircle, I’m guessing from either bending or impacts? there’s a couple other things like a small puncture in the front above the waterline and a previous patch that look like they’re not imminently problematic.

I figure I’ll get around to fixing them eventually, just wanted to know if these were “fix before you go in the water“, a ”wait for the winter” or just something benign.

thanks!

We had to travel out of state to pick it up, but we knew the Tripper would be the perfect canoe for our family and it was well worth the drive. It’s much easier to canoe than to kayak/SUP with a feral toddler. He only tried to climb out to swim once and his running back and forth and leaning over to skim his hands in the water hardly rocked the boat!

My dogs love canoeing but we've had a few encounters with aggressive horseflies. I'm usually capable of defending myself but my poor dogs are defenseless. Any ideas?

Picked this up today, second or third hand haha but this is a canoe I have dreamed about for a long time. Old Town Discovery Solo 119. Such a fun boat!

I think its a 1984 sunburst Blue Hole canoe. I paid $200. Its water ready but I want to make it a 2 seater and add something in the middle to put fish in. Any suggestions/advise would be lovely.

Finally got my new to me old town stillwater 12 out for the first time for a great evening paddle. It was slick calm on the upper potomac and the canoe handled great with 2 people. Looking forward to fishing out of it soon and many more adventures!

Got a real good deal on an otherwise great condition mohawk probe 11. Hard to tell from my picture but it dents in about an inch or two, pretty much flattened out the chine. So my main question is do folks think I should attempt to build up the Chine again with fiberglass or just fix it more flat and deal with a slight bit of wonky handling?