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My second year having fun with the manayunk ice festival. The installment of the Friday night bonfire in the pouring rain started at six thirty on Friday morning. The plan was to make two Ice sculptures filled with wood to be set on fire that evening. Using pop up tents to shield the ice from the water we stacked up 4inch slices and freezing them together to a hight of about eight feet. After we finished the two structures, we had a great lunch at Minnie's. then returned to unload a ice piano.

Repairing a Kevlar canoe or Kevlar kayak is actually easier to repair than repairing a fiberglass or carbon-fiber canoe or kayak, especially if it is a major impact against a rock.  If you have a major impact in a fiberglass or carbon-fiber canoe you can have a "blowout" (hole punched in your boat).  A Kevlar boat will not blowout because Kevlar doesn't break, just the fiberglass layer over the Kevlar breaks (you can cut Kevlar with a sharp object like a knife, but not break it by bending it).  What you end up after a major impact that compromises the structure of the boat hu

A few weeks ago I received a forwarded message from rosemary. It told of an ice carving festival in manayunk. I contacted the organizers of the festival and they were very nice and welcoming. I printed and drove to the manayunk development organization. I then met the lead ice carver who invited me to join the crew that built the fire and ice bonfire for the kickoff on Friday night. Building the ice chimney was a fascinating project with approximately six thousand pounds of ice cut stacked and welded together.