Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 04:51:58 -0500
Reply-To: Max/Joyce Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
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From: Max/Joyce Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
Subject: Re: Install Canoe to inside 87"Westy..
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I'm going to try and sort this one out.
1. Mad River Canoe company sold a series of fold up canoes a few years ago.
I helped put one together at a boat demo day once and If memory serves, they
had a 12' a 14 or 15' and a 17' model. As I recall they were called Pak
Canoes and sold for about $100 a foot. This is not to be confused with the
Old Town 12' Pack Canoe which may very well fit inside a Vanagon or loaf
by removing he passenger seat. I have seen a 13 foot solo whitewater canoe
stuffed in a Vanagon w/ front seat out before, but room for little else. I
can get a 4 meter Olympic slalom kayak inside my 90 GL if I wedge it in at
an angle(and be real careful when I close the back hatch!!) and have had as
many as 5 kayaks stuffed inside my van without removing the front
seat(obviously the middle seat is out). I think that day I also had one
canoe and 9 more kayaks on top of the van. I've had 5 16' tandem canoes
stacked on their sides and lashed together and to my custom designed boat
roof rack for transport, but that gets to be a very large sail for the van
to deal with in crosswinds.
There are also folding kayaks for sale too, Klepper makes some and I'm sure
other companies do too, not sure if Folboat is still around or not.
Old Town ran an ad once showing one of their Discovery(cheap-ass
polyethylene plastic, but better than a Coleman) line canoes being dropped
off the 4th story of their plant. A motor drive series of shots and
finally revealing that it suffered no major damage. Not sure if that's what
this gentleman saw or thought he saw or not. I think I had some Vanagon
related stuff in here somewhere.
Thanks for putting up with my ramblings, but as Steven Wright would say, "I
like to reminisce with people I don't know....granted, it takes
longer....."-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Dorm <mark_hb@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Thursday, August 31, 2000 3:03 AM
Subject: Re: Install Canoe to inside 87"Westy..
>I saw a boat available a while back (saw it on the web somewhere) that was
a
>folding boat, and it was made in japan, came in different sizes, and if I
>remember clearly, you could put this boat on your roof. They made mention
on
>the site that it was tested by dropping it from a high height into the
>ocean... I think it was a little long for the vanagon roof though... but
its
>been a while...
>
>
>>From: Yoshi <dolphin@MARS.NETSPACE.OR.JP>
>>
>>Hi list,
>>
>>I am thinking about Canadian canou purchase now.
>>
>>"Canadian Canoe".. Monark 14ft..
>>
>>Can install this canoe into cabin of westy?
>>If it is necessary, I will remove a pass seat.
>>
>>TIA(^_^)
>>
>>Yoshi@87Westy
>>dolphin@mars.netspace.or.jp
>
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