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How to get into a Canoe

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on June 15, 2008
in Bell Canoes, Canoe How To, Canoeing Tips, Fletcher Canoes, Novacraft, Sawyer Canoes, Souris River, Wenonah and kevlar canoes
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How to get into a Canoe
by Red Rock Wilderness StoreWith a Souris River Canoe, you really don’t have
to get your feet wet - EVER!

Please Note: This loading technique will work well for all canoes. However, while Souris River Canoes, along with royalex, polyethylene, and aluminum canoes, can handle this sort of entry repeatedly, we do not recommend it for Wenonahs, Bells, Mad River, Sawyer, Novacraft and other brands of cloth-layup, vinylester or polyester resin canoes. Canoes with made this resin tend to require more delicate handling than epoxy resin canoes especially when they get older because vinylester resin gets brittle with age. Repeatedly sitting on these canoes may adversely affect their bows and sterns. Due to their more fragile nature, you may want to check with the manufacturer to see if the canoe is strong enough to accept this means of entry instead of the usual “wet-foot” technique currently used on vinylester resin hulls. We wouldn’t want you break something. For the rest of you epoxy/kevlar canoe owners, get in and go!

Addendum:  I’ve run into a bunch of people (”experts” and “expert” outfitters both)  who’ve commented on the photos below, saying that the Boundary Waters rarely has such a nice smooth beach on which to land a canoe.  No kidding - I could have paddled over to Moose Lake to find a rockier portage but I kinda figured that most readers could “pretend” there are rocks alongside the canoe in the pictures.  The maneuver remains the same whether there is a rough portage or not.  What has happened to the abstract thinkers of the world today and how do some of these “experts” rate the self-proclaimed title?  Sheesh!

Visit Red Rock Store for a great series of pictures:

How to get into a Canoe without getting your feet wet!

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Kevlar Canoe Warning

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on April 15, 2008
in Bell Canoes, Novacraft, Old Town, Souris River, Wenohah and kevlar canoes
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 Red Rock Store issues the following warning:

Be on the lookout, folks! Desperate sales people of Brand X kevlar canoes (all made with vinylester resin - don’t forget that fact) are offering their new hull as being the same canoe as a Souris River Quetico 17. One of my biggest Boundary Waters outfitters, after extensive paddling in real conditions has declared Brand X’s “supposedly-the-same-as-a-Quetico 17-canoe” a “dog” in the water compared to a Souris River Quetico 17. It’s a typical Brand X in poorly fitting sheep’s clothing - narrow front end, no room for your feet, sluggish with a load, doesn’t handle rough water as well, etc. And, now, we’re hearing the SAME CRAP about epoxy degredation by the usual Brand X sales suspects.

They simply can’t beat a Souris River Quetico 17, they know it and this is how they play ball. Read my Baloney Vortex for all your questions answered regarding the lame accusations made by the panicking Brand X sales people for details concerning epoxy resin and Souris River Canoes.

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