So true. One of the other families on my cabin island are the Angus family, Colin and Julie. They usually row over and if you know them, it's not surprising. His rowboats are un-freaking-real. IIRC he won the under 20' class in one on the Race to Alaska.Originally Posted by peterb
My dinghy-tender is wood-cored composite and fairly light, but that cedar strip is INCREDIBLY light. It's a good build method.
When I was on the ocean, I was planning a version of the PNG style dugout single outrigger canoe. I wasn't quite sure if I wanted to go with plywood stitch construction, or a ceder 3 plank style carved to shape. Then I moved up here to the mountains, rendering the whole thing moot.
Another friend of mine took the Hawaiian boat building book, and built a nice outrigger sailing trimaran, and actually sailed it from Siador to Madang.
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Was sent this recently
https://www.usfitwear.com/ss-elite-c...scout-q26yt43b
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I'll wager you a PF dollar™ 😎
The lunatics are running the asylum
www.usfitwear.com appears to be a scam site. Also, you cannot find canoes there via their online store listings or internal search, which is a common element of similar scam sites. They also are charging less than $5 for shipping a freaking canoe.
Chris
Thank you! I will pass that along to the person who sent it to me
Also notified the manufacture
Last edited by UNK; 05-09-2020 at 09:02 PM.
I'll wager you a PF dollar™ 😎
The lunatics are running the asylum
I hate this thread right now. Has revived a very old want, and now I'm OCDing about stuff that hasn't taken significant time and attention for decades.
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Not another dime.
If it makes you feel better, I haven't done a darn thing yet on a canoe. But I will. Soon.
My then girlfriend aka The Woman Who Tried To Drown Me was a dedicated open boater. "Rafts are for tourists and kayakers are crazy."
She paddled a Royalex OCA.
Code Name: JET STREAM
I think this is the thing I will be working to keep myself talked out of.
Lighter than the one I posted earlier, cheaper, faster to build, faster to row, more capable in rougher water due to more freeboard, and some other reasons having to do with old memories. Since I'm 6'4" and 215 lbs, I'd get the two-man (in the pic) and set it up as a single. A crazy dude customized one and rowed from Scotland to Iceland a few years ago. I'm nothing like that crazy, so it should be able to handle anything I'd do.
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Not another dime.
I saw an ad on CL in WV for a Grumman Eagle 17. For reasons, I decided I wanted an aluminum canoe, and this particular one is supposed to be about the top of the line for Grumman. The guy called me back at 9 tonight (a few hours ago) saying he'd sell it, and like an idiot, I told him sure I'd be there at 8, never mind that it's 2-3 hours away and that my work truck isn't set up to haul a canoe. So I got off that phone call, ate supper, took an hour long phone call, then welded up a rear canoe rack out of scrap that fits in the 2" hitch receiver and gets the canoe level with the headboard of my truck. Lashed it down so it couldn't sway side to side with the slop in the hitch, lashed it forward, then lashed a toolbox onto the flatbed to carry various straps and such. Put my GPS in the truck and the $375 he's asking, and it's 2 a.m. and I'm headed to bed for about 3 hours' sleep before I head north.
Yesterday was my last day without a canoe unless something goes really wrong.
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