Around 4 years ago, Old Town started showing off a new play on its 11 foot Pack canoe. The "Pack Element" will look an awful lot like the current Old Town Next. But unlike the 13 foot Next, the Pack Element was 11 feet long. The Pack that it was based on was said to weigh 33 pounds in Royalex. Not bad for a sub $1000 boat! But we all know what happened to Royalex... The Pack Element never quite made it to market as planned in 2014.
Enter T-Formex. Esquif is making more sheets than it can consume for its own boat production. Wenonah is starting to take up some of that surplus, and I wouldn't be surprised if Old Town followed.
Could the Pack mold come out of storage? Could we see Old Town revisit the Pack Element, possibly replacing the Next entirely with a sub-40 pound boat at entry level prices?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssbSYOgIbQc