FS Mad River Revelation/Freedom 17 Royalex Canoe

[Guest]

17’ long, 37.5” wide, 34” waterline, 14” deep center. Shallow vee, moderate rocker, webbed seats and IQII gunwales with accessories. Tandem tripping gear hauler, in very good condition.

Fully outfitted for tandem tripping:

Dynel fabric, G/flex and graphite powder skid plates
Wenonah adjustable stern foot brace
Ridgerest seat pads and keeper straps. Set up for (not included) Surf to Summit .back bands.
Minicel knee bumpers below the inwales bow and stern
Four vinyl-pad D-rings for gear or float bags
Arched zip-open IQ belly cover
Waterproof zippered IQ chine bag
Bow utility platform with sail. If your bowman likes to fish the sail mount is a Scotty rod accessory base.

$950 firm. If you want to dicker I’ll keep the sail, but you’ll never know what you are missing, cruising along in a steady tailwind. Hand me $950 cash and I’ll throw in some other accessories.

PHOTOS

https://www.flickr.com/photos/153467243@N07/albums/72157709035088136

 

[Guest]

Sold to a good home. To a paddling club member who wants to do more tandem tripping, with a friend and Penny the English Shepherd, who is welcome to visit and lay on my cool shop floor anytime.

I sweetened the deal a little and included a pair of 5’ long NRS center floatation bags that nicely fill the middle of the canoe for downriver daytrips. And, when they asked how it would do with an electric outboard, a side motor mount. And some other geegaws.

Happy to have it go to a club member whom I know, and happier still that it will now be used.

 

[Will Derness]

Wonderful that the boat will have new adventures! Do you have a revolving fund where the proceeds will go for your next hull?

 

[Guest]

Wonderful that the boat will have new adventures! Do you have a revolving fund where the proceeds will go for your next hull?

No, I’m still a cash kinda guy, and that big stash of (all $20’s) will last me for months.

It kinda pains me to see nice canoes resting unused on our racks year after year. You know I go back and forth on buying some UL solo canoe better suited to a bad-backed sexagenarian use.

I don’t portage further than rack-to-truck-to-water. There are places, even in camp, where simply moving a lightweight canoe up out of the rising water or wind-&-wave to safety would be advantageous.

But there is also the question of buying a lightweight big boy tripping hull, or a shorter, still-lighter weight (and more oft used) big-boy day boat. If all I need to do with a tripper is drag it up on some rocky ledge site, or land somewhere rocky in bashing wind and wave, I’ll accept the extra weight of a plastic hull.

I envy DougD his 35lb Bell Rob Roy as a day use/weekender boat, but Rob Roys are in the unicorn and Giant Beanstalk category, especially used-cheap and in need of new brightwork and repairs.

You do have me thinking Mr. Willie. We have two more tandems that need to get sold, and rather than continue to wait for a used unicorn to magically appear maybe I just figure out my ideal UL daytripper/weekender, even if it means buying new.

I don’t have much of an idea what that make/model might be in vacuum bagged UL kevlar/carbon fiber.

 

[Alan Gage]

I don’t have much of an idea what that make/model might be in vacuum bagged UL kevlar/carbon fiber.

It looks like the Rob Roy is back in production: https://northstarcanoes.com/canoe/rob-roy/

Alan

 

[Alan Gage]

It's not like when you die God is going to say, "Ok Mike: I'm going to send you back for one more go around and this time you get to buy that ultralight boat you always wanted."

Alan

 

[Will Derness]

Most all of us will need to own light weight canoes if we are to keep paddling as we get increasingly older. Lifting and loading a canoe on your vehicle is the first order of business for a paddling trip. So accept that a light weight canoe is in your future.

After looking unsuccessfully for several years in the used market, I finally decided to buy new. As I searched it gradually awoke in me the recognition that there is a finite number of years left for me to paddle and every year I delay getting a light weight canoe is one less year I get to enjoy the pleasures of a light weight canoe.

I've had no regrets spending the $$ to buy new. I got exactly what I wanted and started to enjoy the pleasures of owning a light weight boat. On the maiden voyage of my new light weight canoe I came upon a fisherman in his nice looking motor boat. It made me feel quite frugal to realize I could probably buy 5-6 high end composite canoes for the $$ he has spent on his boat, motor, and trailer.