Mike Galt Lotus Caper Canoe for Sale

I was dropping some things off at the Rockland/Rockport ReStore (Habitat for Humanity) just as they were closing and took these pics just before they moved it inside for the night. Price is $1500 firm, it looked in good shape but I didn’t have time to inspect it. Just thought I’d pass it along, if someone from away is interested I could pick it up and hold it for you, I could even meet you some place to save you some driving.
Jim
I don’t need another canoe, I don’t need another canoe

I don't need an excuse to go back to Camden...I don't need an excuse to go back to Camden...

The canoe is a Lotus Caper, which in my opinion was Mike Galt's best solo canoe. I've owned one since 1986, and I've changed the title to specify the model and maker. It looks to be in great shape.

Thanks Glenn, like I said I had no time with it but I could go back on Thursday if needed.
Jim

I wish logistics where not that difficult between Maine and me. I have to get this canoe out of my mind.

I didn’t mean to torture you, sorry. I could store it till transportation could be worked out. Did I just make it worse?
Jim

I have been looking into this logistics for a decade , never found the solution
In short it looks like.
The easy bits
1 find a carpenter to build a box around it to make sure the transport datagebruik is limited.
2 aks kas to Get it from you to a harbour

3 find a transport company where this can fit in a shared container.

4 container to Rotterdam or another harbour in nw europe.

5
Customs

Last easy bit
6 collect from transport company at harbour ...

The rough estimations always ended over 3000 usd eur.

Go big or go home.

1: Get your own shipping container
2: Fill it with used canoes
3: Sell excess canoes once it lands in Europe
4: Retire with all the profit you made and paddle your new canoes.



Alan

Side benefit of Alan's plan might be that the trip to North America to shop for, paddle & acquire all of those used canoes might be tax deductible (depending on your local regulations).

Seems like business expenses to me and it's not really your fault if the business merely breaks even because many of your acquisitions "just won't sell at current asking prices". You might even have to keep some because they were "scratched in transit and are no longer in saleable condition".

(Warning: I'm neither a tax accountant nor versed in international commerce; I'm just trying to help )

I always thought you were a helpful guy Gamma.
Jim

Thrift stores in Maine sell boats? I gotta get to Maine.

@GladMax - You never know what you're going to find in a thrift store. My original 1898, Dwight Grant guideboat was found in a thrift store in Rochester, NY by a friend of mine. He and I traded the boat for an old '62 Willys jeep I had. He needed transportation and I was more than happy to receive the boat in return.

That's all for now. Take care and until next time...be well.

snapper

Wow! I'm a Jeep fan: my daily driver is an '86 rust and dent free all original CJ7. But I think I'd make your trade.

Number of years back I was in process of buying an undyed, 100% beaver cowboy hat. A lady I was buying band materials from suggested checking thrift stores. I said: "Hardly anyone buys 100% beaver, hardly any of them buy undyed, anyone who buys either never gets rid of them, and they are all custom fit. I'm not going to find one in a thrift store!"
Wasn't maybe two weeks later I was in a thrift store, saw a silvery cowboy hat in back. Looked closer, it was indeed undyed. Still in perfect shape. And built by Kevin O'Farrell, then already deceased, considered one of absolute best hatters in America across past century or two. When I took it by the shop to get a new sweat band they measured my odd oblong uneven head and the hat, and the two lines overlapped on a piece of paper looked like one.
The store didn't know what it was. I paid $25 for something probably cost $1200 new in the '80s.
It's now in a hat museum.

I just came down through that area from Canada. I do not need another canoe either. No.