Canoe outfitting bar has been raised. https://daytona.craigslist.org/boa/d/port-orange-custom-canoe/7148083641.html
Kayak_Ken (in a canoe)
Kayak_Ken (in a canoe)
condition: like new
engine hours (total): 2
length overall (LOA): 18
make / manufacturer: Grumman
model name / number: Sternback
propulsion type: power
"I don’t see how that Grumman with dual outriggers and side platforms could be transported or even launched intact..."
Sternback is right.
We tried kinda similar set ups a couple different ways.
With a wide 17’ canoe with a sea kayak outrigger and 2.5hp Suzuki motor. The concept there was to motor deep into the Everglades and then use the sea kayak for further exploration.
First test run or that rig.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPErEihIaes&t=12s
And later a 20’ long x 40” wide canoe with the same motor and a 1 man tent platform with extendable sponson floats for stability as a “live aboard”. The concept was to create a live-aboard motor canoe that would not require a site permit for Everglades use.
PC160118 by Mike McCrea, on Flickr
Both worked as designed once on the water. But ashore, getting them into and out of the water, and assembly time where huge drawbacks. Too much assembly and disassembly time, and the canoe/kayak outrigger was impossible for one person to drag ashore out of wave or tidal reach (and re-launch), even on a shallow sandy beach.
I don’t see how that Grumman with dual outriggers and side platforms could be transported or even launched intact, so some assembly required. I guess, once assembled, you could tie it off with springlines between two docks and leave it there for the season.
Or just buy a used pontoon boat.
If it can be put together it can be taken a part. Much like a cataraft, it is a boat built of component parts.
some assembly required