I have a Pat Moore fiberglass freestlye canoe I am wanting to sell but I have no idea what I should ask for it. I don't know much about them other then my grandfather bought it years ago for over $1000 and he re-trimmed it with Mohgany and it has a pedistal seat. It has barely ever been used maybe once or twice still in like new condition. Any help would be very helpful. I am also thinking of trading it to someone that has a nice multi person canoe that a beginner can use.
Thanks ahead of time
Mike Troman
Reveries and Adante Reverie I was 11’10" OAL by 23.5" max molded beam. Optimal cap just over 100. At 160# I could not lift the I’s rails when heeled to the rail; putting the 210lb efficiency rating to bed.
Reverie II was 12’6" by 25" and fit just fine. Adante was the same dimensions but with more rocker. Neither could support their 250lb rating
All three were $2500 in Elite , Kevlar, laminate and $1500 in Classic, FG with roving interior; fall 1999 pricing.
I remember Moore saying “the replacement of water is more important than the displacement of water for paddling efficiency”. Do you imagine he actually believed that, or was it just a marketing gimmick to bamboozle trendy yuppies?
Looks as though the gunwales and thwarts are made of the same stuff as the fence.
You’ve got a great mind CW How you remember all these details is impressive. I can’t remember things I did myself only 5 years ago, let alone what others did 20 years ago and where they were when they did it.
I must add the Pat Moore Reverie I that I bought from Sparrowood seemed to be in amazingly good shape for a boat built in 1988, including the gunwales.
My Reverie I I bought my Reverie I in 1988 or thereabouts at Conclave, direct from Pat Moore. I loved it, and had a lot of fun with it back then, but that was back when I weighed only 110 lbs. (I even paddled it down the Clarion River thru X, Y and Z Rapids one day.) Over the years my weight redistributed and I found myself barely balancing in the Reverie I. Top weight capacity for it is 125# and I went above that. I tried selling it for several years at various prices, and no takers. This was a highly specialized boat…good for playing dead fish polo and for taking videos of other people trying to paddle it and dumping. I finally reduced the price to $100, and this is the only canoe I ever owned that I took quite a loss with. The one redemption was that I met Ness, so that gain made up for the financial loss. Don’t expect to get much for this boat, no matter how good the condition is. It’s pretty, but pretty doesn’t make for a good paddling trip!
I used to be able to remember things clearly whether they happened or not. Now I too suffer from "the fade"; it's just that the rails choice seemed so perverse...
Pat's weight rating were from his own printed lit and, as others have suggested, were wildly optimistic. On the other hand, Pat was paddling Brian Dorfmans' Olympic C-1 sprint boat at Conclave 89 standing upright. Phil Sigglkow asked him if it wouldn't be more stable with his feet crosswise. Pat sculled, moved his feet and paddled forty yards down and back. Sculled, moved his feet in align with the keel again, and replied " No, it wasn't better."
The point is that pat's physical skills are so far beyond average that his opinion doesn't register for most of us.
Both Pat and Phil were dedicated to Cod-head hull forms, despite, as John Winter's said, the complete lack of corroborating test date. That said, one thing a Fish-form boat does is drop it's long, skinny stern deep in the water, countering the yaw induced when paddlers improperly carry their paddle blade behind their bodies. They were easier to paddle straight if the paddler could keep them upright. So it goes
It was a good deal all around I met Lee Ann and opened up a new chapter on my paddling and outdoors experiences. I snatched up the canoe because I wanted a friend to get the Pat Moore Reverie from me for his daughter, but it didn’t work out. I also thought perhaps my son’s tiny girlfriend (a non-paddler) might be enticed to use it. Then reality hit, and I knew it would sit in my garage, unused, which is just…wrong. Thus my friend Turtle, who loves canoes, bought it from me for his granddaughter. He introduced her to solo canoeing with her very own boat. She was thrilled! She paddles it on his pond like a pack canoe, sitting on the floor with a double blade, (although I included a nice Mad River child’s canoe paddle with it). She loves it.
“20” maximum width for a canoe would be extremely unlikely."
I don’t think it was measured correctly. I had my mother meausure it for me since its at her house for storage. As soon as I get a chance to go over to Illinois to visit I will take some pictures and better measurements. Thanks all for the responses.
year My grandfather doesn’t remember for sure of the year but was in the late 70’s or early 80’s. Hope this helps. It has a straddle pedestal seat its adjustable forward and backward trim.
Glenn, I think he was serious about water replacement. And for efficiency, rather than the highest speed a hull could be pushed to over a distance, I think he may have been right.
Pat didn’t do anything he didn’t believe in. And nobody who’s serious about good canoes is going to waste time and material making hulls that they don’t believe will work.