Featured Refinements: Canadian Canoe
For sale: Old Town Camper Canadian canoe, 3 paddles, sculling conversion inl. Oars and seat. It's the lighter "Royalex" version and in very good condition. The main reason for selling it is because it only gets used about once a year! Some light scratches on the bottom, but all cosmetic.
The most unusual feature is that I made a sculling conversion outfit for it. If you win the boat it will come in the traditional open canoe canadian paddle set up. Carrying thwart in the centre and two seats. The photos show that by removing the carrying thwart and putting in two other thwarts and some oar outriggers and a sliding seat unit (a sawn off exercise machine) you can convert it into sculling mode! It goes a lot faster, and you can take 3 passengers.
With a little camping seat (not incl. In sale) I could move my wife and two under 10s comfortably along the Thames at Hampton Court. There are a couple of sculling conversion kits available on classifieds board that come from the US. They go for over £200! If you wanted to restore the boat to it's original spec.
Exactly, you would need to get a new front seat. I moved this one slightly forwards to allow for the sliding seat in the middle, and to make room for another passenger seat (folding camping chair). In the process I cut it down to fit the narrowing hull. But it is still ok for paddling as is in Canoe mode. Here's a link to some reviews of the Camper: https://paddling.com/gear/old-town-canoe-kayak-camper-16-canoe/ Here's a link to my Youtube film of a landlocked demo of the sculling mode: https://youtu.be/Kw4SKBFR0sA Any questions please ask away.
Collect in person only please from SE London. If you pick it up by car you will need a sturdy roofrack and 12ft straps. On 04-Feb-20 at 19:40:04 GMT, seller added the following information: p.s. Just found another thwart! This missing from the photos.
It fits between the yoke thwart and the front seat. Sorry.
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