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Foggy, you might need to reflect on how poo affects fresh water, especially water eventually directed into tap water. And then check out how typhoid, cholera, and diptheria get passed around.

Ignoring or playing hide the pea over this http://mynorthwest.com/574706/magnolia-plant-meltdown/ is not unique to the Red or the Blue. Further, nobody should overlook it or ignore it. My eighty bucks every two months (480 bucks year) is pretty typical for my town of 10,000. With some...

Rigged from the bow, that has some possibilities ... if you can get ashore off the stern, with the OB raised. I would not run the anchor line over the transom, under any conditions.

I am about as averse to numerology as possible, but 20 years ago my views were shaken a little ... a couple I know, domiciled a couple blocks away, lived catty corner to a guy who went wacko one night and, sitting on his porch, barraged their house with his deer rifle, sending them to the floor...

I do not see that around here. Properly orificed, neither butane nor propane should soot up. I suspect those burners need servicing. I do agree that butane canisters suck in freezing weather. Many a backpacking morning I got stuck with cannister warmup duty. Ugh!

Sticking with flares, and avoiding strobes. Flares project, though visibility in daylight can be poor. Hence, they are my go-to nighttime signal. Not a strobe devotee, primarily because the local SAR experts maintain that a swimmer in a confused sea is obscured about as much as his upper...

A great primer on how to do it. Applications abound, with a visual check at low water of a tricky, poorly charted passage being number one on my list. Sam, how about a few words on launch and retrieve considerations?

My town, mouth of the Columbia, has been reconfiguring its waste handling infrastructure going on 45 years plus. As the oldest settlement on the west coast, no surprise it was on 8 (eight!) straight shots to the Columbia until those were diverted and pumped around the point, at tidewater, to a...

On land, out of the way places, in BC, I have found it. One on Hwy 1, near Ladyswith. A little more expensive. Also in Chinook, WA. Lotta business from boaters launching there, or at Ilwaco. Bay side of 101 at a convenience store, hook and bullet emphasis. Cannot recall the name.

Riverjohn, is your question regarding areas of allowed gill net fishing for salmon directed at the Columbia, or those other rivers? On the main stem Columbia, there are 6 zones from Bonneville Dam to the mouth which are used, not all of them open simultaneously, usually. These are fished by...

That is a great site, Larry. Thanks for spotting it.

This marine VHF channel breakout for Canada business seems unnecessarily complicated to me. Hence the plethora of lists. The one I referenced earlier being one of the worst. My apologies. I scratched around and found this one, which seems to put it in the most straightforward form. If...

Harvey, Larry H took the downloadable PDF file and converted it to a jpeg file, which you no doubt have already seen. Depending on what platform you are using for your computer, to directly see PDF files after they have been downloaded, you will need to search out and install an app. My...

Larry, there is a new listing, for this year, I believe, at this link. My older ICOM handheld uses a scheme similar to what you posted. The following differs. Take a look. http://www.offshoreblue.com/communications/vhf-ca.php

Rob's mention of a step to induce cavitation reminded me of the insane OB powered dugout canoe races on a tight oval course the natives have once a year at La Push. The dugouts have a FLAT planing surface terminated by a SHARP edged vertical sternpost. Even a little curvature and reportedly...

Reads like spam to me.

Ivan Doig's Sea Runners ... fictional tale of three indentured workers who escape a Russian work camp in Sitka (I think) and paddle down the Inside Passage and the outside of Vancouver Island in an open dugout canoe, eventually reaching willapa bay, circa 1790.

" Acqui-hire" ... a verb describing an action businesses need to do these days? This is a messed up world.

I would echo Hardee's endorsement of Barkley Sound as an alternate access for Clayoquot Sound, if the run outside from Amhphitrite Point (Eucluelet) to Tofino does not intimidate you. I agree there are some good anchorages in the Deer Group, with tying off at the PAYC float in Robbers Passage a...

Watersport users across Oregon and Washington "have a bunch in their pants" about boaters who do not properly clean their vessels of larvae and adults of these invasive species. I expect that swimmers, water skiers, and other responsible boaters innthis part of the country would be happy to...