on purchasing a canoe
The right canoe is the canoe that gets you out there and home again. But more important than making a clean cut through the chop is that the canoe looks excellent at your command, at your dock, on top of your car, leaned against the woodpile, or even at the bottom of the river.
The best canoe I have ever been in is a Princecraft. I have never felt like a prince any where else in fact. The Princecraft is big; from bow to stern, seventeen and five eights feet. At the beam, from gunwhale to gunwhale, she is nearly foure feet wide, wide enough to sit two medium width people side by side. In practice she is wider with her handsome hard chines that make her ride just high enough that the bow and stern, symmetric in their ends, join plane above the water line unladen at calm. Just barely. She is also an exquisite battleship color and is becoming more interesting as the aluminum oxidizes and reacts with the substance and denizens of the river. As a seaworthy rating, the Princecraft gets a ten out of ten. She really does cut, can take whitecaps without so much as pitching, and only becomes more controllable the more load she hauls. Her seams are welded and the result is a sharp prow that makes it. Even though, there is a tack welded keel which does wonders to keep her tracked. I can, with the rock in the bow, take her out and build some steam, and stand and walk and fight and land the fish. The Princecraft is excellent. She is marked with a big Indian chief at the bow on the starboard and by a registered trademark on the port to stern. Allinall a good boat. I would keep this boat until my family name invariably dies out in a few hundred years or so.
The second best canoe I have ever been in is a Grumman I believe. Grumman canoes are characterized by their speed. They have a good plan and are durable but tend on the heavy side. All the same, the Grumman is a work horse. But it does take some skill to pilot. The Grumman is sensitive to placement which can be utilized by a familiar crew to minimize the steering effort and concentrate energy into a race. I recommend a Grumman for one who is strong and who likes a challenge. For a beginner, the Grumman canoe will either drown you soon or put you at the top. One last note is that the Grumman canoes are characterized by good Aluminum and heavy gauge. This is the canoe that you can portage and cross the ice without a worry. Highly recommended.
The right canoe is the canoe that gets you out there and home again. But more important than making a clean cut through the chop is that the canoe looks excellent at your command, at your dock, on top of your car, leaned against the woodpile, or even at the bottom of the river.
The best canoe I have ever been in is a Princecraft. I have never felt like a prince any where else in fact. The Princecraft is big; from bow to stern, seventeen and five eights feet. At the beam, from gunwhale to gunwhale, she is nearly foure feet wide, wide enough to sit two medium width people side by side. In practice she is wider with her handsome hard chines that make her ride just high enough that the bow and stern, symmetric in their ends, join plane above the water line unladen at calm. Just barely. She is also an exquisite battleship color and is becoming more interesting as the aluminum oxidizes and reacts with the substance and denizens of the river. As a seaworthy rating, the Princecraft gets a ten out of ten. She really does cut, can take whitecaps without so much as pitching, and only becomes more controllable the more load she hauls. Her seams are welded and the result is a sharp prow that makes it. Even though, there is a tack welded keel which does wonders to keep her tracked. I can, with the rock in the bow, take her out and build some steam, and stand and walk and fight and land the fish. The Princecraft is excellent. She is marked with a big Indian chief at the bow on the starboard and by a registered trademark on the port to stern. Allinall a good boat. I would keep this boat until my family name invariably dies out in a few hundred years or so.
The second best canoe I have ever been in is a Grumman I believe. Grumman canoes are characterized by their speed. They have a good plan and are durable but tend on the heavy side. All the same, the Grumman is a work horse. But it does take some skill to pilot. The Grumman is sensitive to placement which can be utilized by a familiar crew to minimize the steering effort and concentrate energy into a race. I recommend a Grumman for one who is strong and who likes a challenge. For a beginner, the Grumman canoe will either drown you soon or put you at the top. One last note is that the Grumman canoes are characterized by good Aluminum and heavy gauge. This is the canoe that you can portage and cross the ice without a worry. Highly recommended.
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