A new contender for worst manufactured canoe ever

[Guest]

A friend just sent me this. 13 feet long x 39 inches wide. Try to guess the weight before you look.

https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/p/emotion-wasatch-canoe-15emouwstch13cnxxpsc/15emouwstch13cnxxpsc

We have a new champion

 

[Odyssey]

Well, you have to give them credit for the name at least...Emotion. I'm sure I'd get emotional dropping 4 hundred smackers for a plastic horse water trough with seats. Okay, let me see...I like round numbers...60 pounds.

 

[Sweetfancymoses]

Comes with really good reviews.

 

[Odyssey]

Holy Doodle!! It weighs that much?! A horse must come with it!

 

[Cookannapurna]

But it comes with "ditty trays"...I think I need one!

 

[yellowcanoe]

If I wanted to off someone that canoe (?) would be ideal.
Dickson Bonfield portage.

It's really heartening to read all the positive reviews. And the one stars which tell it like it is

Now I have some dock floats that paddle as well and are lighter

 

[southcove]

From the description, "Best uses: Canoeing and Boating" As if...

Bigger problem is that someone who gets duped into buying one of these plastic turds could well be permanently turned off to small boating...'so this is what it's like to be canoeing, eh?!"

 

[Iskweo]

Three person boat eh? That would be interesting. You know, this thing makes the Sportspal look pretty good by comparison.

 

[27 ELKS]

Best I can say is, "Nobody is going to grab it and run off with it!"

 

[boatstall]

Best I can say is, "Nobody is going to grab it and run off with it!"

Might not "run" off with it, but might roll off with it. Remember its got the always desirable and prized moulded-in skeg wheel.

 

[Grandpa Paddler]

Not even something I want someone else in my group to paddle when I'm on the water.

 

[Glenn MacGrady]

Receiving rave reviews on Dick's and Pcom, and costing less than two pails of West sooper-dooper epoxy or a sheet of carbon, the Emotion Wasatch provides instant waterfun to owners (and their dogs), who laugh (and bark) at the internet crowd who spend hundreds of hours or thousands of dollars to build or buy sissy alternatives that don't even have a 5-year hull warranty.

 

[Odyssey]

Receiving rave reviews on Dick's and Pcom, and costing less than two pails of West sooper-dooper epoxy or a sheet of carbon, the Emotion Wasatch provides instant waterfun to owners (and their dogs), who laugh (and bark) at the internet crowd who spend hundreds of hours or thousands of dollars to build or buy sissy alternatives that don't even have a 5-year hull warranty.

Yeah, I really wish I were them.

 

[Steve in Idaho]

Receiving rave reviews on Dick's and Pcom, and costing less than two pails of West sooper-dooper epoxy or a sheet of carbon, the Emotion Wasatch provides instant waterfun to owners (and their dogs), who laugh (and bark) at the internet crowd who spend hundreds of hours or thousands of dollars to build or buy sissy alternatives that don't even have a 5-year hull warranty.

Is that thing even moving?

 

[Steve in Idaho]

I like how one reviewer says it's "a little heavier" than other canoes. A little? And another says it's "light enough".

Idunno, Mike.....I think Coleman stills holds the title.

 

[Odyssey]

Now I'm feeling guilty for having pissed in another's canoe so to speak. They are having fun after all. No harm in that. But for a fistful of dollars more they could be paddling something better suited for just about anywhere they go, dog included. Maybe two fistfuls.

 

[Guest]

Bigger problem is that someone who gets duped into buying one of these plastic turds could well be permanently turned off to small boating...'so this is what it's like to be canoeing, eh?!"

Aye, there’s the rub.

I may not want scads more people out paddling, but I do like seeing people find pleasure in the activity.

I’m not sure I would wish that near 100lb 13 foot tub and failed seat rivets on anyone.

If they manage to sell enough of them they may replace MRC’s molded poly Adventure as the most common “almost new” canoe on Craigslist.

 

[pblanc]

I am pretty used to walking past cheap pumpkin seed rec kayaks and cheap, one-layer poly canoes at big box stores and paying them no mind. But I did happen to come across one of these at Dick's earlier this year and it caught my eye. I was, in fact a bit dumbstruck by this monstrosity.

I took it as further evidence that the world is steadily going to hell.

 

[Glenn MacGrady]

Plastic "tub" rec kayaks and canoes have brought inexpensive paddle sport to the masses. They far outsell the carbon/Kevlar touring kayaks and small builder canoes plus all the strippers and wood-canvas reconstructions, combined, that are so cherished by incurable paddlephiliacs.

Nor do Joe and Jane Sixpack want to spend their time on the internet searching for elite canoe bargains in remote places.

The masses, many of whom are aged, are having what is lots of fun and recreation -- to them -- in their inexpensive plastic paddling and fishing crafts. So those boats are not the cup of Uncle Lee's decaffeinated green tea for paddlers who frequent forums like this. So what?!

To me, the real fools are those "paddlers" who drive 20-year old, 12 mpg, rusting vans as canoe vehicles instead of a customized Range Rover.

 

[Guest]

Plastic "tub" rec kayaks and canoes have brought inexpensive paddle sport to the masses. They far outsell the carbon/Kevlar touring kayaks and small builder canoes plus all the strippers and wood-canvas reconstructions, combined, that are so cherished by incurable paddlephiliacs.

I agree; “starter” boats have value in introducing people to the pleasures of paddling. I have had my fun in beater Grummans and Wards Sea Kings, Old Town Packs and Dimension SOTs.. The Yost boat design that sold best, and IIRC made him the most design money, was some Pumpkinseed Perception kayak.

But that beast is another matter.

The masses, many of whom are aged, are having what is lots of fun and recreation -- to them -- in their inexpensive plastic paddling and fishing crafts.

95 lbs for a 13 foot boat? If they are aged like me they are not having a lot of fun putting a 95 lb canoe on the roof racks, and are probably calling it quits after a hernia inducing trip or back surgery. I liked the review complaint that mentioned two of the sales staff “dropping the canoe outside Dick’s front door and running away” after the purchase was made. Run away, run far, far away, if only for transport liability.

Would cheesy OEM factory roof racks will even support that weight? Gotta wonder how many people buy a $400 canoe and then drop similar coin on a Yakima roof rack system. My guess. None.

Not only are there better price point big box boat choices, dang near every other choice is better. The Mad River Adventure 14 is “only” 75 lbs, and is actually a decent paddling canoe once you manage to lug it to the water.

13 feet. 95 lbs. Is there, or has there ever been, a heavier canoe per foot of length?