While browsing Craigslist tonight a just listed and in almost show room floor shape Mad River Kevlar Explorer showed up. Not twenty minutes from my house. Heck most of my canoe purchases have been late night last minute three hour drives each way. So close by. Even has wood paddles. One of which is a bent shaft. $800.00 and it could be mine. Then the VOR(voice of reason) or better known as MDB(my darling bride} speaks up. Yes it is very nice but we all ready have a royalex Explorer. Then I started to look at the weight. only 12 pounds lighter than our Bell Northstar in fiberglass. Would have to sell a canoe to make room. VOR speaks up and says they are not making royalex any more. Ok so I am going to have to look past this one. But it is so pretty....
Keeping the hard won savings in place for a good shape used black gold Bell Northstar, used Swift Kewayden, or if the savings can grow enough a Northstar Polaris in Black Light. It is so hard when a good canoe comes up for sale around me to pass them up and the aforementioned canoes never come up for sale around this area. Yea I really mean that. Been looking on Craigslist and other sites for three years now. Would like to find a light weight canoe for when we are older. Only seen one Bell Northstar other than mine in the last three years in Florida. When sounding out the owner gently about selling the answer was basically If we could pry it out of his cold dead hands a hundred years after he died he might think of selling. Oh and by the way did we really want ours? Oh well the search goes on for a fast light weight touring canoe in central Florida. If we find one MDB's surf board is going to have to move off the canoe wall rack.
So how to you keep from buying or building pretty new canoe things?
Keeping the hard won savings in place for a good shape used black gold Bell Northstar, used Swift Kewayden, or if the savings can grow enough a Northstar Polaris in Black Light. It is so hard when a good canoe comes up for sale around me to pass them up and the aforementioned canoes never come up for sale around this area. Yea I really mean that. Been looking on Craigslist and other sites for three years now. Would like to find a light weight canoe for when we are older. Only seen one Bell Northstar other than mine in the last three years in Florida. When sounding out the owner gently about selling the answer was basically If we could pry it out of his cold dead hands a hundred years after he died he might think of selling. Oh and by the way did we really want ours? Oh well the search goes on for a fast light weight touring canoe in central Florida. If we find one MDB's surf board is going to have to move off the canoe wall rack.
So how to you keep from buying or building pretty new canoe things?