Worst manufactured canoes?

[Steve in Idaho]

You can add the OT Saranac to the list. I have yet to see one that isn't hogged. And those seats......

 

[Guest]

You can add the OT Saranac to the list. I have yet to see one that isn't hogged. And those seats......

There was some (very) short lived Discovery model OT in the mid-90’s. We visited the OT factory with a trailer and bought two factory seconds for friends, a Columbia and a Pack, and a set of vinyl gunwales for me. Outside the showroom there was a stack of brand new Discos on which each and every bottom presented an astoundingly hideous series of waves and warps. Just looking at those bottoms made me seasick.

Didn't Topher?? paddle a Raddison on a river at the Tortoise Res once upon a time?

Oh, not just a Raddison, an antique Raddison 12 foot square back. And he didn’t paddle it, that would have been painful; it had no seats and the ancient ethafoam flotation under the aluminum ribs (some ribs were missing) and along the side sponsons had degraded to the point that it felt like 50 grit sandpaper, and the foam crumbled to dust under the slightest touch.

This ridiculous thing, which doesn’t deserve to be called a canoe:

http://www.mountainmanoutdoors.com/r...e-transom.html

It also leaked like a sieve at the square stern end, so Topher poled it backwards, standing in the bow behind the seat, with the leaky end raised far out of the water /.

We had brought two canoes down on the van and Topher graciously allowed a boatless friend to use the second (I wasn’t giving mine up). That left Topher with a choice of the molded poly MRC Advantage with a wasp nest in every cup holder, or the glass mat pig of an OT Stillwater.

I am not sure why Topher didn’t choose Pig 1 or Pig 2; maybe he just wanted to claim having done a trip in the worst canoe ever made. I would not argue that claim to fame.

 

[Steve in Idaho]

Topher poled it backwards, standing in the bow behind the seat

In a 12' square-back pig of a canoe. That's a hard act to follow.