r/canoeing

Original Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/canoeing/s/EN0RC0gU6m

I got a LOT of great feedback from this group on how to tackle the repairs and I wanted to say thanks! I ended up patching the hole with a rivet gun, some aluminum and epoxy sandwiched between. Did a plate on each side of the damage.

Also gave the Grumman a little love and freshened it up with a new paint job this weekend. Excited to get it on the water here soon!

I bought this Mohawk Canoe. It was advertised with some damage and I saw the pictures but I was thinking it was a fiberglass canoe that could be repaired using conventional fiberglass repair techniques. I am not familiar with Royalex as a material and was curious what the best course of action would be for repair on this canoe.

Hello, I am looking to buy a used canoe. I have found two canoes listed near me for $350/$375.

The first is an Old Town Canoe Discovery 146 canoe. Pics included. $375

The second is a Coleman (idk specific model) that looks decent for $350. It comes with a trolling motor but I don’t really care about that. pics included.

Which would you advise me to buy? Or not?

Use: canoe around, fish, etc. I have a waterfront spot so don’t need to move it much. I’ve gone canoe camping down the Allegheny River in PA before (level 1/2 rapids) and it would be nice to be able to use the boat for similar river trips in the future. I will primarily plan to use with others but the ability to solo navigate would be good too.

Hey, we are living close to the Aegean Sea in Turkey, we are thinking about buying some kind of boat to have little trips from bay to bay, along our coast, no plan on "long distance" / hard sport / bad weather or high wave adventures, only for relaxed free time, swimming, maybe fishing, good weather, low wind and wave traveling along the coast.

My friend also has a canoe, but an inflatable, that has its pro's about light weight and transportation, but for us seems a bit more complicated, because it needs more maintainance, cleaning off sand and stones (we are living off grid and our water resources are very small, anything i don't have to wash at home would be good for our survival 😅), also we have a bigger car and can easily transport a sturdy built boat on the roof, so no need to have an inflatable version.

my main question is this: i see two general models. i'm neither native english nor native turkish so bare with me and possibly wrong terms :D

model 1: "canadian style" (pic 1) just a classic boat, no "air containers", just a tub. lots of space.

model 2: "air container style" (pic 2) some kind of closed plastic container where you sit on top. probably unsinkeable (if not damaged), lighter, but smaller and a lot less luggage space.

my gut feeling tends extremely to the "canadian style", for the big space, the option to take friends, a dog, more stuff on the trip. just that it probably is not unsinkable...

can you drop me some more pro's and con's about the type of boat construction, concerning our circumstances? like as a beginner, maybe is there something that everyone (except me) knows, why a "canadian style" is NOT good for the sea?

just to get an idea for you i added a random pic (pic 3) of the type of bays and weather conditions that we are planning on travelling - the aegean sea is a side sea of the mediterranean, big waves only occur on storm days, on those days we would anyways not go to the water.

Small photo from my time paddling yesterday. No time to go like today!

Started out yesterday thinking I was tough enough to solo portage my old 75lb fiberglass beast. spoiler: i am not. tbh I dont even know why I haven't upgraded to kevlar yet, probably just stubbornness and refusing to pay $3k for a shiny new boat

We stayed at Camp Happy Grounds just to avoid the absolute zoo of bluetooth-speaker crowds at the main river access points. It was a solid move, but wrestling that stupid heavy canoe down to the water in the morning mist still almost broke my spine

just gonna accept the physical destruction of my body as part of the hobby at this point. Soaking in epsom salt for the next 48 hours

Hi! My family is looking for a used Tripper. We’ve located a bunch, but none particularly close to home. The person selling this canoe says they think it’s a Tripper or a Discovery. It seems smooth and glossy, and it doesn’t have the ridge down the middle of the hull that you often see on Discovery models. It also seems to have more of the overall Tripper shape to the hull. They couldn’t tell me whether it’s just over or just under 17’, just that it’s 17’. Any chance this is a lucky find?

Edit: Seems like the consensus is that it’s a Discovery. Thanks!

Found this Bear Creek canoe on FB marketplace for $50, and put about $50 of work into it to revive it. Absolutely loving it so far. Also found a pair of Bending Branches Expedition Plus paddles on marketplace for $40 (not pictured)!

Ottawa Ontario got slammed with 118mm of rain in a really short amount of time. Nice to see these guys making the most of it.

After years of kayaking (almost exclusively lakes but we do have some nearby rivers) we picked up a Canoe. My 4 year old son loves kayaking with us but was getting too big to come with us in our kayaks, so this will be our first run with a canoe. I'll be retrofitting a trailer to haul the canoe and both our kayaks so whenever we go on trips we can have options.

She's an '81 Grumman 17 ft canoe with some awesome duck art haha! Found on FB Marketplace for $300. No big dents, seller said no leaks. I've heard these things are pretty indestructible. As soon as I can I'm going to take it out and test it!

I'm preparing a list of things I need for our maiden voyage.

• It came with 2 wooden paddles, step one check!
• I already have some things from the kayaks like PFDs for each of us, some waterproof/floatable bags for supplies, phones, etc.
• Straps for hauling (used ratchet straps to bring her home but I heard that was a 'no-no') so looking at these: https://www.nrs.com/nrs-1-hd-tie-down-straps/p4yc just have to determine the lengths.
• Bucket/Sponge for bailing
• Some throwable floating cushions
• Rope for tying everything down
• Possibly a yoga mat for the floor in the middle where my kid will be.

For the future I may look into some more fancy stuff depending on what we decide we want to do. Maybe a cooler, or some seats/cushions.

Do you pro canoers have any recommendations outside of my list?

I love the look of navarros​ and merrimacks, and I've been shopping around for a shorter canoe that I can paddle solo (and I know the legacy is a little on the wide side for that) for birding. $100 seems like a steal IF this canoe is salvageable

After nearly a month of waiting, it finally arrived from overseas today! My copy of Song of the Paddle (1988) is here, and it is in absolutely beautiful condition. No dog-ears, no creases, no tears—it looks and feels like brand new.

​It even comes with a beautiful, clean embossed library stamp from a previous owner on the inside, which gives it so much character. I’m incredibly happy to finally have this masterpiece in my hands and can’t wait to dive into Bill Mason’s amazing photography and stories tonight. The duo is finally complete.

I reside in very buggy northern Manitoba.. this seasons mosquitoes have been insane! I don’t want to miss all of June and July due to bugs. Loading and unloading the canoe almost ALWAYS results in my SUV filling up with 30+ mosquitoes.

Any ideas for bugs?? Thermacell maybe, but all the information I read online and on the product says extremely poisonous towards aquatic life.

I love to canoe and fish, but when the mosquitoes are this insane all day long, it almost breaks my mind.

Desperate and open to opinions! TIA