And it shan’t be my last!

From what I can tell it’s a 1998 old town discovery scout. Needs a wash, but it’s in good shape. Came with three pretty roached paddles, but they’ll do for now. Stoked to have a canoe again, gotta dust off my canoeing merit badge

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Nothing quite like it

Royalex. Needs new seats. Hull looks to be in decent shape. Any red flags?

This was local and I snagged this from Marketplace because I liked the color and I was looking for a fiberglass canoe. It's 16' OAL, and has no manufacturer tag of serial numbers.

It's probably a local Michigan manufacturer, but who knows. Does the design look familiar enough to anybody to guess at a manufacturer??

Anyone have any experience with this or similar t-formex/lite boats? Im in the market for an all around boat and am really limited to one boat. My main worry is the tformex lite will be flexy on the bottom of the hull. I think I am steering clear of composite boats for now because I am rough on equipment and know I will have a hard time keeping up on the gel coats. For some background my group generally does the allagash which has a combination of large lakes and class i and ii rapids. Next planned trip will most likely be the petawawa or dumoine. I know this is asking a lot from one boat and understand I will be giving up some performance on either end.

I rented a red one and it was so hard to maneuver. I sat at the back and had to row on the same side as the front person. I had to do the rudder? Paddle alot instead of J stroke.

Is this common? Could be a skill issue but id like to say im intermediate and i never had this issue before.

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You’ll find us out here until the water isn’t liquid! (Simon Pond, ADKs)

Hey guys! I’ve got yet another plea for canoe recommendations. I lead a scouting type organization in the east TN region. We enjoy taking advantage of the plethora of lakes in the area for a lot of our long weekend trips. We’ve done a couple 4-5 night trips in the GA swamp as well as weeklong trips in KY and many many 1-2 night trips on local lakes. This past week we were down in the swamp for 4 nights. I have been using an old plastic Coleman canoe for all these trips. On the second to last day of this recent trip I had the opportunity to try out a buddies Bell Northwind. It was eye opening to say the least. Not only did it glide in the water but it was SOOO much more stable. I am now looking to buy something used that I can take on these trips. Typically I’ve got my teenage son with me as well as gear and food for several nights. We pack light, often taking our backpacking gear and freeze dried meals. In the swamp we also need to bring water (had a 6 gallons this past trip). Looking for a couple best bang for your buck recommendations. Can’t spend several thousand, and hoping to find something use that would still give a similar sense of stability when loaded with 4 nights worth of gear. Tia!

So many birds! Magical place. Drove over the Gordie Howe bridge with the canoe too!

And no one’s around to hear, will it fall on my canoe?

Hello esteemed canoeing community. I have the opportunity to purchase this Scott prospector 15 for $1k CAD. It’s 10 years old and has been gel coated. I am an intermediate paddler (always rented or tandem with a friends) and looking to purchase my first canoe for a 50/50 split of solo and tandem trips. What are your thoughts on this canoe specifically?

The TC16 is a drop-stitch construction foldable inflatable 16' canoe. We travel in a Ford Transit high roof van, and currently carry an Onak canoe folded up against the ceiling. The Onak can be a little limiting, and it's getting old. So we recently bought, and then returned, a Sea Eagle TC16. This post is really to share a few things we learned about it in the process, for anyone else thinking about it in the future.

Overall, it's an impressive product. For a 16' canoe, it really packs down small, and it really is a viable 16' canoe. You can easily find YT reviews that will show you that. We didn't actually paddle ours that much, so I won't try and review stability, seaworthiness, etc. [ Edit: mfgr url: https://www.seaeagle.com/TravelCanoe/TC16 ]

First, the elephant in the room: we returned it for a few reasons, but mainly, the only place we have to store it in our van is against the (lightly insulated) ceiling. There are warnings in the canoe's documents about storing it in a place like a hot metal shed where temperatures could get "very high", or have "excessive exposure to sun and heat". Several conversations with their support team didn't yield anything more specific than that. So since a conversation with AI told me that the glues used in drop-stitch construction could fail at 110F to 120F, and since those temperatures seemed completely attainable on a hot day in a closed van, we decided to return it. Happily, Sea Eagle has a very generous 120-day no questions return policy. To be clear: if we could have stored it almost anywhere else in the van, this wouldn't have been an issue. But against the ceiling is the only possibility with our particular build-out.

Other information we learned about the boat:

There is only something like 6-1/2" or 7" between the floor and seat bottoms. I could get my feet in there when kneeling, but then felt totally trapped. We experimented with 1" wooden blocks between the seats and their mounting tabs, but even with that, the spacing is pretty tight. I think their inflatable seats, or maybe even a canoe kneeling saddle (inflatable?) might be the best answer. Honestly, even sitting on the low seats wasn't very comfortable, for me, anyway.

A couple of dimensions not listed in the specs: Beam at the front of the front seat is 30". Beam at the front of the rear seat is 29".

Grit accumulates in the crevice between the bottom and the sides, and is hard to get out. Obviously water gets in there too, and drying it isn't easy. I didn't spend a lot of time figuring out the best way, e.g., bottom deflated, sides inflated, or vice-versa.

The included manual pump is quite large. You'd probably want a much smaller pump for any kind of expedition/camping.

We got the optional electric pump, which works well. But the switch is unprotected, meaning it can easily turn on in a packed duffel, etc. So the battery (which normally plugs neatly into the bottom of the pump, forming a single unit) really needs to be pulled out when the pump is being stored. The pump looks like it's probably a rebrand of the Morpilot 20psi pump: https://manuals.plus/asin/B0CZ6NKYPM (I chose that link because it looked most likely to be around for a while. There are other sites with other pictures if you search.)

The pump's interchangeable nozzles don't really stay attached to the hose well, so when you unscrew the nozzle from the boat's valve, it's really easy to unscrew the hose from the nozzle instead. And that results in a big "Whoosh!" as all the air starts coming out of your boat.

Anyway, we'll continue using our Onak from the van. We also have a Penobscot 16 which we can transport with our car, but not the van, so it's not like we lack for canoes.

Fixing up an old fiberglass pacer. Poured some 2lbs foam in the ends tonight, and this looks roughly like the amount of foam that was in there originally, but that foam was in pretty rough shape and may have deteriorated over time too.

Is this an adequate amount of foam or should I be filling both ends up?

Shopping for my first canoe, looking to use it to solo paddle on the French Broad and Tuckasegee rivers near Asheville, NC primarily for fishing. Really drawn to the light weight of the Pack for loading/unloading solo onto the roof of my SUV.

Seller is located 2.5 hours from me and they were only willing to budge $25 off their $800 asking price. Is this a good deal?