On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Sailboat Restorations, Inc. wrote: > While I'm on the subject of canoes, I'd like to solicit the opinions of > anyone willing to offer them on the question of what canoes you like. I've got a few WeNoNah canoes. I love them. Supposedly my latest boat was built 3 times before the factory was willing to ship it, the finish is virtually flawless (on a skin coat kevlar boat) I've had some nasty crashes in our oldest one, collisions enthusiastic enough to toss the bow paddler over the front into the water. With minimal damage to the boats. All of my canoes are ultralight layup kevlar, except the old town tripper, which is big enough to carry about a half cord of wood. I paddled the old town loaded over the gunwales with firewood, without being too concerned about stability or freeboard. The wenonah sundowner is a marvelous boat for going at a fair clip, and carrying a good amount. We regularly use it to paddle around beverly harbor, out to misery, around marblehead and the like. The sundowner is also available in a somewhat light plastic layup, with nice comfy sliding buckets. I've got a wenonah jensen 17 that is a quick "family" boat but it would not be my choice for canoe camping, it's a bit low, but at 34 pounds it's a pleasure to carry... kirk *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Jul 10 2000 - 08:09:50 PDT
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