woodman Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 This is the challenger I have had it on several Ozark streams and various lakes etc.... http://s147.photobucket.com/albums/r302/scrawford_photos/
woodman Posted May 15, 2012 Author Posted May 15, 2012 Pictures sent to me from a paddler in Austrailia... http://s147.photobucket.com/albums/r302/scrawford_photos/
woodman Posted May 15, 2012 Author Posted May 15, 2012 And from a guy who paddles down in Texas on the Brazos river... http://www.southernpaddler.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7177#p70883 http://s147.photobucket.com/albums/r302/scrawford_photos/
woodman Posted May 17, 2012 Author Posted May 17, 2012 A guy from Michigan......Waters here in the Great Lakes area have lots of rocks. Rivers wear some of them smooth, and freezing busts a few up every year, to present new and sharper edges. While I don't intentionally seek out rocks to hit, I tend to not avoid them either. Bottoms of my boats look exactly like the ones pictured. I've gone over beaver dams with the boat bridged. The cracking I heard came from sticks in the dam, not the wood in my boat. Waves, banging the boat up against the face of Mio Dam on the Au Sable River, banged up one side of my canoe a few years ago. Nothing structural, though. http://s147.photobucket.com/albums/r302/scrawford_photos/
Greasy B Posted May 17, 2012 Posted May 17, 2012 My wood strip canoe endured about 10 years of Ozark floating before I busted a crack in it going over the falls on North Fork of the White( should have walked it down) The crack is easily repairable but what put the hurt on it was not have a place to store it indoors. Sun light is a wood boats worst enemy. His father touches the Claw in spite of Kevin's warnings and breaks two legs just as a thunderstorm tears the house apart. Kevin runs away with the Claw. He becomes captain of the Greasy Bastard, a small ship carrying rubber goods between England and Burma. Michael Palin, Terry Jones, 1974
woodman Posted September 21, 2012 Author Posted September 21, 2012 I found this to be interesting.... Quote: Ever wonder what would might happen if you boat flew off the roof of your car at 65mph? I've got some photos. I was traveling north on Interstate 89 in Vermont and the bungees holding my Guillemot L to the J-racks let go. I heard a WUMP and looked up and the boat was gone. In the rearview mirror I saw it lying in the thick grass to the right side of the road and pulled over on the shoulder. This was awful but that is the end of the bad news. Inspecting the boat it appeared that the bow/front part of the strap had let go. The J-racks being on the right side of the car had allowed the boat to be flung to the right and it must have landed stern first on the shoulder. This ripped a chunk of wood and fiberglass about 6" long from the stern hull just behind the skeg and about 2 feet in front of the point of the stem. The boat then skidded into the 12" grass about 20-30' off the roadway and coming to rest rightside up. In addition to the torn out chunk of stern there was some cracks in the glass along the base of the skeg box where it is joined to the hull and some cracks in the stern deck caused by the skeg box being shoved into the deck. I loaded the boat onto the car and secured it a bit better and headed on to Burlington, Vermont. I had an errand to run for a friend and just accross the street was an outfit called "Canoe Imports" in South Burlington, Vermont. They offered me a strip of bituminated aluminum that we used to hold the torn stern chunk into the boat. and we installed some bow and stern lines to hold the boat to the car better. I purchased some duct tape to cover some of the lesser scuffs and picked up my friend in Plattsburgh, NY and we headed off to Cranberry lake where we we had a great weekend, kayak camping, on one of New Yorks finer lakes. http://s147.photobucket.com/albums/r302/scrawford_photos/
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