Blukanu, is that the blu kanu?
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Show us pictures of your canoe vehicle with boat(s)
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Blukanu, is that the blu kanu?
So many pretty canoes in this thread so I'm a little embarrassed with this old Coleman 15', but we have really enjoyed it, pretty stable and lots of carrying capacity. Diagonally placed in the back of a 2009 Silverado, 8' bed with 1.5' tailgate, so most of the canoe is supported by the truck bed and of course it is lashed in tightly.
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Nuthin' wrong with that Coleman, especially if paddling rock gardens... that bugger's almost bulletproof!
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Hyundai Santa Fe with a Chestnut Pal and a SR Q16. I have 2 fence top rails bolted onto a set of Yakima tubular racks. Have carried one or 2 many miles with no issues. I use the side straps made from webbing that attach under the hood to tie the bow(s) to, I've never tied the stern of a canoe, it always gets it the way of the hatch
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My new Savage River Blackwater on its first trip home, riding on my Subaru Wilderness Forester.
And a few older canoes on my new cedar boat rack on the wall of my garage.
And a few older canoes on my new cedar boat rack on the wall of my garage.
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I like the wall rack a lot! (then again, I'm a sucker for rustic and you had me at Cedar...)
Same vehicle with new Old Town Discovery 119 recently purchased from Appomattox River Company. Much easier to load/unload by myself than the Coleman (66 y/o weakling LOL). Also pretty easy to fish from solo but pretty tight quarters. Nonetheless already caught a bunch of fish out of it.
The canoe rack was made by a small Mennonite family owned shop in Lowville NY, Riveside Rustics, who specialize in cedar framed furniture of all kinds. They made every bit of the furniture in my Adirondack camp five years ago. They had a large butternut plank that was an experimental piece as a "water table", wherein they filled the random natural defects with blue resin and finished with clear coat. But they diid not know what they were going to do with it. My wife instantly said "we need a kitchen island for camp, which turned out beautifully. Then I asked if they could do a custom routed channel and fill it with blue resin. So I projected and traced a map of a critical 10 mile portion of the Yukon River, which became our dining table. The map includes Five Finger Rapids, Rink Rapids, Yukon Crossing, and "Sam's Ashes". They also manufactured every piece of cedar furniture for my camp, including loft and stair railings, tables, chairs, bath vanities, beds and all.
More recently I built a garage to house my growing fleet of canoes that no longer fit in a small shed on ugly 2x6's fastened to the walls. I saw online a cedar log rack design so I asked the guys if they could replicate it. And so they did, as the first of at leat two sets to be mounted in my large garage/canoe house.
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Let's see pictures of your canoe vehicle, current or former or both, with a boat on it or near it -- canoe, kayak, raft, I don't care. If you have a camper, we'd like to see it, too, and hear about it's details.
This is my 1997 Dodge B2500 van conversion, AKA the magic bus, which gets about 10 gallons per mile. I took out the middle two captains chairs so there is a big open space between the front seats and the rear sleep sofa, covered by an oriental rug. I've slept in it all over North America in campgrounds, back roads, Walmart and church parking lots, truck stops, interstate rest stops, and suburban streets. I keep all my canoe and camping gear and clothes in it all year round, and during the warm months I usually leave one or two boats on top. Just hop in it and go for two hours or two months
The picture was taken about 13 years ago when everything was much newer, including me. On top is a 2004 Huki V1B solo outrigger canoe (va'a, in Hawaiian), a 1996 Surge Marine Surge seakayak (infused with gold flecks in clear resin), and a 1986 Mike Galt Lotus Caper solo canoe.
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Yesterday's shuttle - my 12' Outrage on a Honda Fit. Tripping boat would have looked even better.
There's a kayak on the other side, but no one cares about that.
There's a kayak on the other side, but no one cares about that.
I don't recall ever seeing a canoe carried like that. Do you have vertical supports or cradles on your rack or is the canoe just propped against the kayak?
Not my car - I was getting a ride back to the put in. He did have a fold-up stacker bar that my canoe is strapped to. It does make it easier, but its not necessary. I only have a 60" bars on my car, so I often have to put boats on their side. I strap them down individually, and then run one long strap over everything to hold them together - it works fine. This was a few years ago heading off on vacation.
That's a Spirit II, a Wildfire and my daughter's kayak. Yes, she went over to the dark side, but I lover her anyway. It was a little nerve racking the first time I tried it with composite boats, but they hold up fine. With royalex you can crank them down pretty tight. With composite you need to be more careful on the pressure, so I always use bow lines on longer trips.
Here's another one - Prospector flat and a Wildfire and Rapidfire on edge. This was a another short shuttle back to the put in.
2021 Swift Carbon Fusion Keewaydin 15 canoe on a 2013 Mercedes E350 AWD:
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