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I expect most of us have done it, let go of a canoe we wished we hadn’t. I now know that I should have taken the demo pro-deal on the Placid RapidFire, and on the Clipper Sea-1, but stupidly judged them still too pricey for my then-wallet. Dumb arse.
That classic early 70’s Old Town Rushton is one. It deserved more skilled repairs than my utter ignorance at the time allowed.
The second was another Old Town, a kevlar Northern Light solo. 15’ 4”, 29” waterline, 13 ½” deep at center, 45lbs.
https://photos.bwca.com/h/HANSSOLO-060318-114603.JPG
(Kudos once again to Hans Solo for scanning and saving so many old catalog cuts. If he is still around we need to get him on this board)
I hated the sliding seat in that canoe, it was too high for my sloppy style to stay un-dumped in the roundish bottomed hull, and the adjustable fore and aft positions were all wrong for me. Or maybe for most anyone else that weighed more than 150lbs.
I later came to realize that the seat height had been altered by the original owner to be a 100% kneeler, and I think they also managed to re-installed it bass-akwards. I didn’t know enough at the time to yank out that damnable sliding seat out and install a fixed, sitter’s contour seat in my chosen location, and couldn’t sell it fast enough
$500. The buyer drove away like he stole it, and I was happy to see that super-saturator head up the driveway so I would never fall out of it again.
I might still have rolled out of the Northern Light every time I bumped a rock, hit an eddy line, or got sideways to a lake wave, but dang I wish I’d at least tried installing a lower fixed seat. Maybe that was just me; DougD managed to keep it upright one night-float on the sheltered bay, but then he somehow had my beverages in his boat for ballast.
What’s your shouldn’t have sold it regrets?
There are only a couple boats I wish I had back, even if just to work on again; the OT Rushton is one of them.
That classic early 70’s Old Town Rushton is one. It deserved more skilled repairs than my utter ignorance at the time allowed.
The second was another Old Town, a kevlar Northern Light solo. 15’ 4”, 29” waterline, 13 ½” deep at center, 45lbs.
https://photos.bwca.com/h/HANSSOLO-060318-114603.JPG
(Kudos once again to Hans Solo for scanning and saving so many old catalog cuts. If he is still around we need to get him on this board)
I hated the sliding seat in that canoe, it was too high for my sloppy style to stay un-dumped in the roundish bottomed hull, and the adjustable fore and aft positions were all wrong for me. Or maybe for most anyone else that weighed more than 150lbs.
I later came to realize that the seat height had been altered by the original owner to be a 100% kneeler, and I think they also managed to re-installed it bass-akwards. I didn’t know enough at the time to yank out that damnable sliding seat out and install a fixed, sitter’s contour seat in my chosen location, and couldn’t sell it fast enough
$500. The buyer drove away like he stole it, and I was happy to see that super-saturator head up the driveway so I would never fall out of it again.
I might still have rolled out of the Northern Light every time I bumped a rock, hit an eddy line, or got sideways to a lake wave, but dang I wish I’d at least tried installing a lower fixed seat. Maybe that was just me; DougD managed to keep it upright one night-float on the sheltered bay, but then he somehow had my beverages in his boat for ballast.
What’s your shouldn’t have sold it regrets?