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Show me your canoe truck
- Thread starter Hanz
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This picture looks like it was taken at Pelletiers Campground.This WAS mine
An 04 Dodge 3500 with the Cummings
Got lucky and just got a new 2022 Ram 2500 diesel. The canopy is equipped to haul canoes.
The truck, with recent addition of the ladder. It should have been a no brained but it took 30 years to bring it.
Congrats. Now how about getting more active with a camera, Forester, and show us some pictures of all the very interesting things you post about. Folks like and are motivated by photos, in my experience. Besides, you live in a rare part of the country for a canoe community, and pictures of anything out West are usually grand.
The truck, with recent addition of the ladder. It should have been a no brained but it took 30 years to bring it.
I've been using different size step ladders on my full size van for decades. Those are some really high towers supporting your racks.
Nice! I've never seen a hitch contraption for an outboard motor. What model and size canoe is that?
That is my Chestnut Ogilvy "Grilse". 18 feet long with a "vee" stern. It has become my primary canoe. Both tandem and solo. My motor is mounted on a Thule bike rack I've had laying around for years. I grew tired of lifting the motor into the bed and then laying it down on it's side.
Here is my new boat, about to head out and explore a little out of the way pond.
Jim
Jim
I found these Thule racks on Marketplace for way less than the $900 original price, what’s so nice is they can be easily/quickly removed for when I want to use my slide in pop up camper on this 2023 3/4 ton, 8’ bed.
I have the same racks Robin. I like them but I did have to cut some additional slots to be able to lower the back rack so the bow of a boat would clear the cab of the truck.
Jim
Yours looks newer and already has extra slots.
Jim
Yours looks newer and already has extra slots.
Fast forward to 2022 and we’ve got them and all the unintended consequences they bring. Hybrids are a better choice than full EV. Electricity from the wall still comes primarily from burning fossil fuels and California is telling people not to charge their EVs because of rolling blackouts. Now if we could get our heads out of our… darkest areas, we’d realize nuclear is the only real solution. At least until fusion becomes reality.
Got those now too, but the EPA has strangled diesel engines so much that they aren’t as efficient and diesel fuel is now as or more expensive than high-test. The new emissions solution lie is the filter that has to be cooked off aka “regen” all at once. One wonders if the emissions are now worse due to burning extra fuel during regen. They’re still the best for towing though.
I had to use a ladder when carrying 2 canoes to get to the rack between the boats. I can’t reach over the boat when standing on the door sill, and can’t reach under them from standing on the ground. The step stool makes it possible!
And here’s mine:
I’ve since got a pair of the Thule quick loops that are captured under the hood as a better tie off point.
Lowering the rear rack is a nice feature, clearing the cab and also helpful when loading a canoe from the rear.
That canoe in the picture is very heavy, thick paint and canvas patches on the canvas. I drop the tailgate, lift the canoe up on it, then climb up on the tailgate and lift the canoe onto the cross bar and roll it.
I only tie the canoe to the bars and a rope around the center thwart down to floor level loops inside the bed.
I never paid attention to Thule or factory racks for pickup trucks since I've never had a pickup truck. How is the entire Thule apparatus affixed to the truck bed?
On my system, the rack base sits on top of the flat bed “rail” and each leg base has two clamps that secure the base to the truck bed from underneath the rail when tightened.
Very easy on/off
Very easy on/off
Loaded and ready to head north to the Whitney Wilderness area early tomorrow morning. Gonna turn 70 next month so I need to do this route while I'm still young! The "Whitney C"... put in at Little Upper Lake, take out at Low's Lower Dam.
This canoe is the 15' Island Falls Willow model I restored last Fall. First real trip for this one. I keep reading about windy conditions on Lake Lila and this lightweight is prone to being blown around. I'm bringing a water bladder to add weight forward since my gear bag alone isn't heavy enough to counterbalance my weight- no matter how far forward I stow it.
This canoe is the 15' Island Falls Willow model I restored last Fall. First real trip for this one. I keep reading about windy conditions on Lake Lila and this lightweight is prone to being blown around. I'm bringing a water bladder to add weight forward since my gear bag alone isn't heavy enough to counterbalance my weight- no matter how far forward I stow it.
