JEM Watercraft

Photo Bucket has angered many on the web by changing it's terms of services to prevent hotlinking images to forums and message boards unless your willing to pay $399 a year effectively ruining the web for many of us. I have hundreds of images scattered around message boards on the web and It's a dau...

I must admit I have been casting an envious eye at the 16ft Sasquatch rigged as a tandem. For trips over 6-7 days the 14ft Issaquah is starting to get a little tight and the extra length and speed would be appreciated on the longer trips, might have to lengthen the car a bit!

Our next and as it turned out last multi day backcountry trip was to the Nanika-Kidprice lake system in the northern part of the coastal range about 100km of the main high along a gravel road http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/nenikekhNanikaKidprice/ http://i726.photobucket.com/albums/...

After Kinbasket we hung around Salmon Arm at our friends house and took in a few more lakes in the area, the whole area abounds with lakes and outdoor reacreational opportunities but since it was now high season we left for one of the more remote areas the Clearwater/Azure Lakes marine park. http://...

The canoe just sits on foam blocks that clip onto the gunwale, the straps have rachets in them and the whole thing is very stable, not shown are the safety lines at the bow and stern that we normally have on the highway although they are never normally tight, one of them is a steel cable with a padd...

By now it was midsummer so we headed back into the mountains to one of our favourite spots, Kinbasket lake which is effectively the headwaters to the Columbia River and was formed by a dam at Mica Creek. the lake itself is approx. 200km long with arms heading into the Rockies. Not having time to exp...

I'm embrassed to see it's been over 5 years since my last post and I haven't been back to let Matt know what a great time we have been having with our little Issaquah, it is definitely the most used craft in our fleet usually in the water at least twice a week when the is no ice on the lakes. This y...

A few more pictures of the rig http://i726.photobucket.com/albums/ww265/NorthernChinook/P1010026.jpg http://i726.photobucket.com/albums/ww265/NorthernChinook/P1010022.jpg http://i726.photobucket.com/albums/ww265/NorthernChinook/P1010025.jpg http://i726.photobucket.com/albums/ww265/NorthernChinook/P1...

I've been interested in building a dedicated sailing canoe so I decided to build a conversion rig for my Issaquah 14 to try out a few ideas and see if I still felt the same way about sailing as I did 15 years ago when I last did any sailing.( I do) First lesson don't conduct sea trials when the wind...

Here is some good information and pictures of a sailing canoe conversion some one did based on the link Matt gave above. http://www.lakeeyreyc.com/ Click on the Technical Department link and then Sailing Canoe There are links to drawings of the parts, the rig should be about the right size for the D...