Burgeo, Long Pond, Bonne Bay and up toward St Anthony and Main Brook,
You’ve picked some nice places. Hopefully the price of gas drops some before your trip.
The Petrel Play has the 14ft x24" size you were looking for. Our just completed strip boat weighs in at 45#. I usually build a little heavier than design weight. Keeps up with the big boats. Very responsive.
The fiberglass models in many configurations… https://www.turningpointboatworks.com/the-petrel-play
The wood strip version… Petrel Play
Of course you won’t make your schedule building and finding a used strip built Petrel Play will be difficult.
I haven’t seen any used Petrel Plays for sale. It’s very high on my list, and I may break down and build an S&G version, but I’m not much of a woodworker and question my ability to do it well.
The Sube is rated at 5,000, out trailer is 4,000 WET, that’s the max with its 600 lbs payload.
Pic for attention, @Lillyflowers is driving
Return visit… We have been three times. As the total distance driving is going to be less than going from here to FL fuel can be anything… Its about $8 CAD now… We are not going across the whole province this time… Merely driving seven hours to the ferry from N Sydney.
We scuttled any plans to go to NW Ontario as that drive is 22 hours and the Boundary Waters near 30.
Best wishes to Not the Painter. Its their trip not mine. I just wanted to learn what I found out over five years and 120,000 miles of towing with a TT and boats and a unibody frame… Over and out on this topic.
I like the west coast, have worked in Corner Brook on several and have paddle on multiple occasions. Bay of Exploits is another great paddling location.
Gas prices are a killer, we’re staying close to home for most of our adventures this year.
Maybe something as simple as a hitch extender, will give you the clearance you need. If you bought the camper through a dealer, can they lengthen the tongue?
An odd suggestion but I wonder if the Yakima Showboat 66 the load-assist roller slides would work with your present rack system, and if mounted backwards would allow you to mount the front Hullavator further toward the front of your car on the part that slides out. I’ve not seen one of these in person, so I don’t know the possibilities.
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Nice afternoon with @Marshall trying out boats plus getting lots of love from his 2 dogs? How awesome is that? He was really surprised when we tried out the Stellar 14’ Touring Kayak (S14 G2) up top hitched up to the trailer and how fast the wide space closed up on turn (no really surprised, like that shouldn’t happen kind of surprised). It passed muster (yay!).
There’s a new boat in our fleet. Next up? Pick up @NotThePainter’s “new” boat next week. He’s got a line on a used one. All is well that ends well. And if it ends with kayaking and camping? So much the better.
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You won’t till the estate sales.
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I think test paddling is far better than looking at photos online.
Thank you @NotThePainter & @Lillyflowers for making the trek to come visit.
Being that it’s going to be a clear night and you’ve got the wheeled abode parked at the boathouse, go out on the point with a glass of wine and take in the riverside night in the ADK easy chairs.
Send me more pictures of your adventures.
See you on the water,
Marshall Seddon
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Congratulations on the new boat and a solution that works for you! enjoy!
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ABSOLUTELY better.
Here’s my post from Facebook…
The volan is a sweet ride, it doesn’t fit as well as my Cetus but I think foam pads would solve that. Love the leg room, my god, I can move my feet! And, with a Greenland paddle I can accelerate! I don’t use that word with my Cetus. I’ll still build my skin on frame boats but if I don’t like them, there will be. Consignment Cetus here in a few years! Thanks Marshall for letting me paddle even when told any sale would be 2-3 years away.
I like the thinking outside the box. Sadly, we’re at the arbitrary weight limit for the roof, so adding more gear becomes a problem. But yeah, sweet idea!
Hitch extenders lower the tow rating, and we don’t want that. Lengthening the tongue is the most realistic idea I’ve seen so far. I’d need a good aluminum welder for that. But… it is amazing how much we’d need to change. A 14’ 4" boat barely clears, I can’t imagine getting a 17’ 9" boat to fit!
I would think that extending the tongue would have the same effect as extending the hitch.
Not really, it changes the distance of the point of rotation, your increasing the leverage on the unibody.
True, and lengthening the tongue will also decrease the tongue weight (unless packed poorly) as well as making the arch that the front of the trailer follows in a turn farther away from the pivot point.
We just recently added 2.5’ to the tongue of our vending trailer and can now carry the kayaks (14’) on the J-hook racks, and I can get the trailer turned 90° when backing into difficult situations w/o jackknifing. On top of that the on road handling jumped up impressively. Not that that will be the case for every trailer.
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