ISO- three to six 17'-20' touring canoes

[lavidagreen]

This is a long shot. I'm part of a team working in partnership with local Indigenous organizations in Southeast Alaska to enable more communal time on the water, and more means of connecting youth to the land.

We are looking to buy 3-6 canoes this summer to run our first program in August. We would be looking for boats in the 17-20' range, ideally royalex or t-formex to deal with barnacles and ocean paddling. Open to other options as well. We have previously used Old Town Trippers and XL Trippers, Esquif Miramichi 18s and 20s. We would love to build a fleet of similar boats.

I am in Montana and hope to buy as close to home as possible, but if the right set of boats came up I do have the flexibility to drive anywhere in the PNW or rocky mountain west. We are open to buying individual boats and piecing it together, or a set.

 

[yknpdlr]

You might consider contacting kanoepeople in Whitehorse, YT. They rent canoes of all sizes for the Yukon River races. https://www.kanoepeople.com/

Just up the street is UpNorth Adventures, they do the same. https://upnorthadventures.com/

Also consider contacting Tlingit master carver Wayne Price (his English name), in Haines AK. He has for several years guided a youth program of building First Nation style dugout canoes. I met him after a Yukon River race when he was mentoring his dugout project in Haines, and a couple of years late also in Whitehorse with youth working on another project. I am sure he woudl be an excellent contact for your program. One of many links for Wayne: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-first-nation-carves-cedar-canoe-1.5240811