Old Town Penobscot 17

[CaptainOllieWest]

Took the Penobscot out today.

 

[Glenn MacGrady]

The canoe looks popping good. That is flat and big sky country. Is the lake natural or a reservoir?

 

[CaptainOllieWest]

Thanks Glen. It still needs work. The stern seat is covered with a peice of plywood and The cane on the bow seat started to fail. It performed well though.

Potholes Reservoir - Wikipedia

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[DougK]

pretty good for the price.. I've just put web seats over the old cane on a couple of older boats, it's worked well.

we had a Penobscot 186 in R-lite for some years, it was a terrific boat - pretty quick on flatwater, capable in whitewater. AKA 'The mothership', biggest boat on any trip we took..
Unfortunately I got old and found its 80-plus pounds a burden. Sold it to my neighbor and he takes his kids out in it now, so at least I still have visitation rights ;-)

from way back when,

 

[CaptainOllieWest]

A couple of updates:
I used some Flood Penetrol on the faded hull. It turned out pretty good.

Flood Penetrol - Before and After

I brought another canoe home from storage last week. It is the Old Town Penobscot 17 that I bought a couple of years ago for a hundred bucks. The sun was shining this morning and I found some Flood Penetrol left by the previous owner of our house. I have read many recommendations by @Glenn...

www.canoetripping.net

I also finished rewebbing the bow seat.

I still need to remove, revarnish and web the stern seat.

 

[RatAssassin]

Ease of use, takes a wide variety of paddling conditions. Royalex is tough. Comfortable and my 16 makes a great solo boat turned around.
And....you can find them at a bargain.