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It helps to have a MacGyver in the family. My dad is 77 y/o and loves to tinker on stuff. He is a master of repurposing stuff, for the job at hand. But it is home repairs and yard work for the warm months. Kayak repairs happen mostly in the colder months. He has his own fleet of kayaks, as well( Stellar S18, Perception Essence 16 &17, CD Kestral 140 and 5 or so SOTs and Rec Boats).
My paddling truck was bought new, in 2005. 275,000+ miles later and still running smooth. Frequent oil changes and staying on top of maintance and preventive maintenance helps prolong things.
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Lucky you! Unfortunately for my laundry list of projects, I’m the family (and friends) MacGyver.
A coworker of mine was a Brit, here on a two year research grant, who was opining about having to fix various things on his car and around the rented house where he and his family were living. He explained that he was helpless with such tasks because his wife’s father was a retired senior mechanic with Rolls Royce auto production. For as long as they had set up a household, annual summer and holiday visits from the in-laws meant Old Dad would arrive with his entire tool kit in the car boot and spend most of the visit tightening, adjusting, oiling, repairing and tuning up everything, around their house, from the taps in their showers to their yard fence gate hinges to their car engines and door locks. The guy could not stand to see or hear anything not working smoothly. His mother-in-law had taken my coworker aside the first time he protested about this generous tinkering and explained that letting him fix everybody’s stuff was the only way to keep her hubbie happy and not bored in retirement.
I am good at repairing and repurposing stuff (got that DNA more so from my creative and industrious mom than my bookish gardener dad) and have the tools and facilities for most of it. But at this point I have a daunting backlog of projects and, at 73, need to be realistic about how much longer I will have the energy and dexterity to get them done.
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Wow, think I just saw one like that being sold in Florida. What is it exactly?
I just picked it up in August and havent had much time to play with it. Its a Aquaterra Chinook. It has no dry storage. My other kayak is a Perception Sport. I love that one
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No dry storage!? Are the bulkheads missing, or the neo hatch cover for under the stern’s hard cover?
Hatch covers are on and secure. There are no bulkheads underneath. There are no signs that it ever had any installed. Its almost like it was built to trick people into buying it.
I would think that there should be bulkheads.
Just checked an old catalog from `93-94 (which is the time period it’s from) and that kayak definitely came w/ bulkheads back then.
You can make some new ones and seal them in. There are people on here that can give you step by step instructions on how to do that and where to get the supplies. Just post up a thread asking for help w/ that.
I love action shots!
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I had an older and rather battered white Chinook for a while, late 80’s model: no stern bulkhead or hatch – that’s the way the model came in its early years. I recall it had little or no deck rigging as well as what looked like a home-made metal rudder and control foot pads (nicely made though). Maybe it was an early “beta” from Perception’s early ventures in rotomolding. I don’t recall being able to find a serial number. But it had the characteristic Aquaterra pinstriping and decals and a thoroughly terrible molded plastic seat.
Another p.com forum member had an unused foam bulkhead for that model and graciously sent it to me. Pounding it in and sealing it did help pop out some bad oil-canning. Boat only cost $75 at a yard sale and we used it as a loaner for shallow river float trips by guests at my ex’s place on the Susquehanna.
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MRC Guide solo on my car and a Mohawk Odessey on Yatipopes car. Headed from the Green to camp in the Shining Rock Wilderness before heading to the Tuck and Nantahala for some more whitewater paddling.
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