Can anyone give me any information on this canoe? It's listed locally for sale as an Explorer 16 fiberglass canoe. The only thing I can find that seems close is the Mad River Explorer 16, but that's a Royalex canoe. I don't know if the seller just doesn't know the difference or if it really is some sort of composite.
Not a Mad River Explorer And what is more, it doesn’t look like a fiberglass canoe either.
Other canoe makers besides MRC used the model name “Explorer” for some of their boats.
Nearly all composite boats have some type of flotation tanks in the stems to provide positive buoyancy. The boat in the photos does not. Royalex and three layer rotomolded polyethylene canoes do not require flotation tanks since the foam core provides buoyancy (and stiffness).
