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Geesh, not very Canadian of them, eh?

Yes I will but I am deathly slow.... I may not get the build done before they come for me.

I don't have any experience with AT doors but this is the second build in which I have used Tern windows. I really like them but others tend to pu-pu them, I think mostly because of their aluminium frames. There maybe better stuff out there but for me, these are just great. (my previous comment...

Jeff That wasn't very clear.... They definitely are Euro-vision, says right on them. What I was trying to say :) was that despite my comment about camper design and planning, I still picked a product (AT windows) solely based on liking them, not whether or not they had superb thermal...

Alloy I have one of first CPT campers, pretty much a prototype and I acted in part as a guinea pig in exchange for having a fair bit of input into my own design. I am very much still enjoying it and the continuing steep curve that occurs with interior self builds. That being said, I would...

Mine walls are a touch over 1.5", so guessing around R7.5

rruff - CPT uses the HCPP panels in their industrial slide in ambulances. These panels and the style of build, allow them to market a MTC (mobile treatment center) which is strong enough to endure a roll over, thus they are not required to have an auxiliary roll cage, which some of the...

Jeff, Good luck with your new undertaking.

CPT engineers advised that there is no real need for them as once set up, the glue and camper is super strong w/o them. Not that I am overly worried about thermal transfer, but the ends of the screws do end up buried in the foam that lives on the outside cavity of the extrusion anyway. I like...

We picked ours up a couple of months ago. We are just now starting to move from cardboard and milk crate mockups to some actual wood. The weather has just been too nice to be inside!

Yes on the CPT build thread and more on the pulley system as soon as the weather changes for the worst!!!

Paddling and camping in BC's West Kootenays last week.

Ha, yes the Thelon. We had planned to do it at the beginning of Covid but got caught in the fuel price surge. With two hardshell kayaks, we needed a Twin Otter to fly in for the drop off and then do the pick up in Qamani'tuaq, it was going to be like CDN$35K just for the flights (which in...

It was generally great weather, considering we were 3 degrees north of the Arctic Circle. The wind was persistent and usually cold due to the offshore sea ice but it sure kept the bugs away. We had been warned about (and were ready for) a lot of precipitation in the form of driving rain and...

ITTOG Yes, two of the folks who were on the trip that I reported on from this summer, were on the trip that is featured in the upcoming NG documentary which was done last summer. And, in the last print version of National Geographic magazine this month (can you believe that!), there is also an...

Kinda like the Franklin Expedition. Franklin was popular and well liked by his various crews but the real brains in the operation was his second in command Francis Crozier who, according to historians was both a better sailor in the decision making department and far less driven by his...

Lady Jane Franklin was very persistent and not a woman one would want to cross, at least as she was depicted by historical accounts.... The survival trip by Shackleton and his crew in basically a rowboat, was amazing, not to mention the superb navigation by the somewhat forgotten Frank Worsley...

Just the sunken ships were located about 60 miles apart, SW of King William Island. The discovery 6 years ago was a pretty big deal up here. Franklin successfully over wintered in 1845 near Devon Island, considerably further north than where we were. During that time, three of his crew members...

Yikes, what a mess. It looks to me something like windshield adhesive. The local automotive glass shop might have a suggestion. Failing that, I just go to to my garage shelf and start at "A" as in acetone and work down to "W" as in white gas (Naphthalene) and try all the assorted solvents...

Well, it has only been about a hundred and seventy five years since Captain Sir John Franklin and his compliment of some 128 members of the Royal Navy vanished. Someone should really finally find him!! High in the Canadian Arctic during the maniacal search for the elusive North West Passage...