Bitter cold is setting in and I’m hauling my new canoe 600 miles. Temps will be dropping from 20* F throughout the trip, 20 mph winds. Any danger of cracking the hull with such conditions?
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I'd ask the manufacturer.Bitter cold is setting in and I’m hauling my new canoe 60 miles. Temps will be dropping from 20* F throughout the trip, 20 mph winds. Any danger of cracking the hull with such conditions?
Although I haven't done it, I have heard where if you have gunwales made from dissimilar materials (including different wood species) from the hull, you should loosen fastener screws for winter storage.
Wow, the dealer didn’t give you the original sock the canoe came in?Made it home fine. Took 26 hours to travel 600 miles. Worse conditions I ever remember hauling a canoe in. Had a tire emergency in sub-zero weather; lost 4 hours at a tire shop. Had to stop last night because I caught up to the back of a slow moving storm in southern Illinois. Could not see road lane markers. Black ice and 35mph winds. View attachment 139104
having owned or borrowed and stored dozens of canoes over decades, in everything from aluminium to CF with gunnels of aluminium, vinyl, or various woods in temperatures that can reach as low -40 in the winter to a high of+45C (113F) the only time I've had cold cracks was in an old Coleman poly canoe with aluminium gunnels, but the expansion rate of that plastic was like nothing I'd ever seen- that canoe could grow in length by almost 11/2" just by taking it from a cool basement into a hot, sunny backyard. The fiberglass, expedition kevlar, ultralight kevlar, carbon, or even aluminium would change by less than 1/4"Although I haven't done it, I have heard where if you have gunwales made from dissimilar materials (including different wood species) from the hull, you should loosen fastener screws for winter storage.