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In discussion of the OT Pack Larry mentioned
I’m back to near daily searching of Craigslist and FB Marketplace within a 200 radius, for a shop project canoe as well as a canoe for a friend. I know it is winter, when used canoe pickings typically get slimmer, but dang, there is nothing out there.
Nothing in several ways; not many listings, and of those few not many canoes I would take even if offered for free. And the asking prices for what is listed are the craziest I’ve ever seen; it’s a used canoe pricing bubble of unknown duration.
I expect that boat bubble to eventually burst when Covid is under better control, and a lot of folks who bought used (and new) canoes want their garage or lawn space back. Gonna be a flood of heavy/crappy poly boats available used.
Larry, and anyone else holding an unused and unlikely to be used canoe (or kaya….), right now, and maybe this spring, with a lot of folks apparently desirous of some leisurely social-distancing outdoors activity, is the best seller’s market I have ever seen.
Any canoe, perhaps as a novice package with an old paddle and PFD included, should bring good money. At least the Pack isn’t an overpriced Coleman, Pelican or MRC Adventure; I would feel bad about selling someone a soon-to-be-unused poly anvil.
I’m curious about whether this is a regional bubble (I’m searching PA/NJ south into the more distant got-friends-there Carolinas), or something folks have noticed as more widespread.
I have one and paddled it for about 3 years as a first canoe. It has been hanging unused in my garage for about 7 years now BTW.
I’m back to near daily searching of Craigslist and FB Marketplace within a 200 radius, for a shop project canoe as well as a canoe for a friend. I know it is winter, when used canoe pickings typically get slimmer, but dang, there is nothing out there.
Nothing in several ways; not many listings, and of those few not many canoes I would take even if offered for free. And the asking prices for what is listed are the craziest I’ve ever seen; it’s a used canoe pricing bubble of unknown duration.
I expect that boat bubble to eventually burst when Covid is under better control, and a lot of folks who bought used (and new) canoes want their garage or lawn space back. Gonna be a flood of heavy/crappy poly boats available used.
Larry, and anyone else holding an unused and unlikely to be used canoe (or kaya….), right now, and maybe this spring, with a lot of folks apparently desirous of some leisurely social-distancing outdoors activity, is the best seller’s market I have ever seen.
Any canoe, perhaps as a novice package with an old paddle and PFD included, should bring good money. At least the Pack isn’t an overpriced Coleman, Pelican or MRC Adventure; I would feel bad about selling someone a soon-to-be-unused poly anvil.
I’m curious about whether this is a regional bubble (I’m searching PA/NJ south into the more distant got-friends-there Carolinas), or something folks have noticed as more widespread.