Ultimate Tripper

[bcelect]

There is a Tripper XL on Ebay right now in case anybody is interested. Looks like it is well used. I like those seats.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Old-Town-Tr...201?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a5222e5d1

 

[yellowcanoe]

There is a Tripper XL on Ebay right now in case anybody is interested. Looks like it is well used. I like those seats.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Old-Town-Tri...item2a5222e5d1

good gawd.. talk about a high center of gravity. I'll run now. No way do I want to be responsible for failing to do a boat over boat rescue. Is the seller Mad?
That thread about Disco stability. With seats like this you need a moose in the bottom to steady it.


Should NEVER have looked at Uncle Henrys. Theres an Old Town Guide in Mars Hill for $800.. Wood and canvas. 1942.
http://unclehenrys.com/classified/4329887/classified?back=/search/Small%20Boats?sr=29557070#4329887

Someone here MUST need it. Thats a great price

 

[ppine]

I have an OT Guide 18, and used to paddle a Wenonah Odyssey at 18 feet. My favorite was the old Sawyer Charger which was 18 1/2 feet. A 20 foot canoe would not seem that much bigger, although the freighters tend to be beamy and deep. They would be perfect with an outboard. They are not so good on a portage.

 

[Guest]

My favorite was the old Sawyer Charger which was 18 1/2 feet.

Once upon a time I knew the lineage of those old Sawyer hulls. There is some interesting design history there.

I re-built a 1977 Sawyer Champion many years ago. The stems were essentially missing and I had to rebuild them. I didn’t like the look of my (early) repair job, although I recreated the stem curves nicely the cloth and resin work was beyond Wabi-sabi rough and irregular.

To cover those fugly repairs I painted over each stem diagonally back from the tip of the bow. Instead of painting those areas red, like the hull, I painted them white.

At any distance the white disappeared, kind of like the Dazzle they did on ships in WWII.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage

I gave that repaired hull to a (East) German friend and he paddled the hell out of it with his entire family aboard, sometimes including his mother-in-law. I could instantly identify that canoe at any distance; the dazzle \____/ profile was amazingly eye catching.

 

[Mama]

Did you have to portage that gigantic 100 lb canoe? Our 70 lb Royalex 17 footer is more than I can handle.

 

[ppine]

Portage a 100 pound canoe with two people. Line whenever possible. I have paddled lake country only once in BWCA. We perfected "draggage" instead of portage. Lots of lakes are connected with small streams and beaver ponds. It is often possible to line boats on those creeks, but not without some heaving and swearing like over beaver dams.

The Voyageurs portaged the Conut du Nord, sp? at 26 feet. The Montreal canoes were around 36 feet. The Grand Portage was over 9 miles. They accomplished those feats by portaging with 4 men at a time or more. There is nothing new about large freighter canoes in lake country. The modern canoeing world seems to value lightweight at the expense of everything else. A deep and beamy hull is a great advantage on big lakes and rivers. They are slower and heavier, but safer.

My OT Guide 18 is similar to the red canoe above but 2 feet shorter. It weights around 87 pounds, until it gets wet and them weighs more like 92 pounds. I rarely portage it.

 

[Odyssey]

I really like the looks of those big canoes. They appear big, roomy, comfortable and safe.
After our daughter totalled my wife's little car I thought I was being a thoughtful and protective kinda guy when I went out and purchased a big (old) car. Low mileage. All the fix'ns. Driven only by a couple of old farmers before. The body work showed that they had difficulty getting it in and out of the garage. No matter. All leather and power everything mean't my wife and daughter could ride in style and safety. Well hell, one outta two ain't bad. At least they were safe. Our daughter refused to borrow it. (Unexpected bonus.) My wife hated to drive it. I was free to borrow it any time I wanted. I loved it. It felt like I was driving my living room, sitting on an enormous leather couch looking out at the world through my big screen HD windshield. One day it wouldn't start, and no matter how much work we did on it, it refused to budge. My wife did cartwheels all the way down the driveway when the new "buyer" showed up for it. She's back to driving a little car and happy again. I don't borrow it. I miss the big leather couch thing.
I'd love to trip with one of those big canoes, but without any portages. They may not be sporty, or turn on a dime, but I bet they have attributes all the same.

 

[PA Tripper]

For the 20' Tripper XL we did the two man lift and carry. Worked OK but still uncomfortable due to the fact that the XL has no center yoke.

 

[sweeper]

The word from the Allagash is that upon hearing there would be no more Tripper XLs, the Waterway bought 6 new one at a discount, 3 of which are still in the shrink wrap above the museum at Churchill Dam. On the lakes above the dam they are running 20'+/- Scott Canoes. Kevin at the Dam seems to think there would be more made by OT but Trevor O'Leary at Michaud Farm says that OT will not only not make the 20'ers, they will not be making the 18'ers either and the price of them has about doubled, which Norman L'Italien at Pelletier's Cmpgrd confirmed although he just picked up and old 18' Tripper for $200. The price of the larger oven was too much for OT.

 

[kingsteven18]

I am the seller of ​http://www.ebay.com/itm/Old-Town-Tr...201?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a5222e5d1 the XL mentioned above. No, I am not mad. That is the way I purchased it.
I have had a change of plans and put it back up for sale. While cosmetically challenged, it is actually a good, sturdy and rare canoe.
If inappropriate for anyone's needs, those seats can be removed. TY, Steve

 

[Iskweo]

http://unclehenrys.com/classified/4329887/classified?back=%2Fsearch%2FSmall%2520Boats%3Fsr%3D29557070%234329887[/url]

Someone here MUST need it. Thats a great price

YC...you have to stop posting those....btw it is down to $600 now....if only. Sighhhhh. One of you out there buyit...if it can get as far as Niagara Falls I can get it to Winnipeg. Then if Canotrouge can come down to Edmonton.........

Christy

 

[Canotrouge]

I would take that boat if it was in Edmonton... We will be road tripping this summer in BC, so a little detour by Edmonton could be arranged... $600 US, is a great deal, but my the time it gets all the way to Alberta, it will definitely be more than I can afford right now. My priority this year is to get my shop up so I have a place to work next winter!

 

[sweeper]

Here they are, the last 2 unused Tripper XLs up in the barn at Churchill Dam.

 

[DanG]

Back in the 1970s, the canoe of choice for the rangers was the Grumman 20-footer with an outboard on a side bracket. I asked the ranger why they didn't use the square stern version and he said it was easier to get to the steering handle at the side instead of the back. Makes sense to me.

Dan

 

[Abenakiregion]

I have two 20' E.M. Whites, both built sometime in the first two decades of the 20th cent. One had neither a broken or cracked rib or plank when purchased. The second was a freebe that required two stems, all but 13 ribs, and way too many feet of planking to put back in shape. Oh yeah, forgot to mention new in and outwales and decks. They are great paddling canoes, and really excel for poleing.
Dave