Wenonah Vagabond Solo Canoe - Flex Core with Aramid - Like New

[mark hedger]

For sale in Harrisburg, Illinois. Like new 2018 Wenonah Vagabond Flexcore with Aramid Solo Canoe.  Ultralight 30 lbs.  It has only been in the water twice; lakes both times.  I bought new and has been stored inside.  Planned to use with my dog but we moved to Southern Illinois and he is getting too old to go.  Comes with Wenonah Kevlar skid plate kit included.  Pickup can be arranged.  $1850 firm.  Message me if interested. 

[Terrierman]

Beautiful boat.

 

[gotmuddy]

On 11/6/2020 at 4:56 PM, Terrierman said:

Beautiful boat.

 

Thats what I was thinking,  too beautiful to beat up on the creek

[Al Agnew]

11 hours ago, gotmuddy said:

Thats what I was thinking,  too beautiful to beat up on the creek

Nah, after you put the first few scratches on the bottom, you're good to go from there on!

 

[ColdWaterFshr]

Nice boat for sure, but curious how well Kevlar would hold up long term, compared to plastic and royalex on our small creeks and rivers.  I’ve only paddled in one once.  Loved it.

[gotmuddy]

9 hours ago, ColdWaterFshr said:

Nice boat for sure, but curious how well Kevlar would hold up long term, compared to plastic and royalex on our small creeks and rivers.  I’ve only paddled in one once.  Loved it.

Kevlar has great wear characteristics and since it has to be vacuum bagged there is guaranteed to be no voids are imperfections in the layup.  If I floated as much as I say I wanted too I would own it 😆

[Al Agnew]

On 11/11/2020 at 9:24 PM, ColdWaterFshr said:

Nice boat for sure, but curious how well Kevlar would hold up long term, compared to plastic and royalex on our small creeks and rivers.  I’ve only paddled in one once.  Loved it.

I think the outer skin (gel coat) on kevlar canoes is the same as glass canoes.  I've used glass canoes on Ozark streams for a long time.  They scratch easily, but really not much easier than Royalex.  And deep scratches in either glass or kevlar are easier to repair than scratches in plastic.  Glass canoes can't take really hard bumps against hard, sharp objects like jagged rocks; it will spider-web the gel coat and can put a hole in the canoe.  Kevlar is stronger as well as lighter than glass, so while the same thing can happen, it will take a harder bump with kevlar.  What you can't do with either one is wrap it around a rock or log.  But really, glass or kevlar will work pretty well on Ozark streams.

[tjm]

I saw a Kevlar Old Town Tripper folded around a bridge piling when some fools tried to run a flooded river once, in the late '70s, a little over a week later the rental outfit retrieved the the wreck and when it was kicked back right side out and the thwarts etc replaced, there wasn't much in the way of visible damage to the hull. I've wanted a Kevlar boat ever since, but have never gotten one and don't know if all Kevlar boats are equals, but I'd pick any MOC over plastic for solo boat.

[fishinwrench]

I took a heat gun to the hull of my Poly-link OT Guide about 5-6 years ago and truly made it NEW again. 

I was afraid that it might make it "spongy" but it didn't.   No "oil canning" or anything.

The same could probably be done to all of those old beat-to-hell Discovery's that can be bought for a song.  Just hit it with the heat until it smoothes back out and all the scratches fill in....then hit it with a hose and cold water to reset it.   Good as new!  

If you looked at the hull of my Guide you'd think it has less than 2 years of use.....but that sucker has been up and down the rivers ALOT since 2003, PLUS lived through a tornado.

[Terrierman]

1 hour ago, Al Agnew said:

I think the outer skin (gel coat) on kevlar canoes is the same as glass canoes.  I've used glass canoes on Ozark streams for a long time.  They scratch easily, but really not much easier than Royalex.  And deep scratches in either glass or kevlar are easier to repair than scratches in plastic.  Glass canoes can't take really hard bumps against hard, sharp objects like jagged rocks; it will spider-web the gel coat and can put a hole in the canoe.  Kevlar is stronger as well as lighter than glass, so while the same thing can happen, it will take a harder bump with kevlar.  What you can't do with either one is wrap it around a rock or log.  But really, glass or kevlar will work pretty well on Ozark streams.

I wrapped my first canoe - glass square stern thing - around a tree on Center Creek in 1974.  Pulled it off with a tractor.  It popped back into shape and I repaired it with woven fiberglass and epoxy inside and out.  Never a problem with the repair and I used that boat for a lot of years when I was in college and very poor.  An aluminum boat would have been toast.