Portage yoke pad - supplier

Advice
#1

Can anyone point me to a supplier of canoe portage yoke shoulder pads.

I am looking for the curved ones with a good amount of padding that can be mounted to a aluminum tube thwart with a one bolt connection,( or some sort of clamp for the same.)



Thanks in advance



jack L

#2

Hope this is what you are wanting
http://store.springcreek.com/cart.php?m=search_results&search=pads

#3

Yoke Pad Suppliers
Here’s a couple of sources:



http://www.rutabaga.com/subcategory.asp?sid=3&scid=38

http://www.boundarywaterscatalog.com/browse.cfm/2,136.html

http://www.oakorchardcanoe.com/canoeseats.php

#4

Mad River
Campmor

Mad River BWCA Contoured Yoke Pads

Item Number: 75505





http://www.campmor.com/mad-river-bwca-contoured-yoke-pads.shtml?source=CI&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=75505WC



http://www.campmor.com/wcsstore/Campmor/static/images/watersports/75505.jpg


#5

Nope
Jack l

#6

Nope
Jack L

#7

Perfect
Just what I am looking for



Many thanks



Jack L

#8

Good pads, but
will you have room for your neck if mounted to a straight thwart? I would think that a curved recess is needed unless you can cantilever the pads towards the bow a few inches.



Jim

#9

Bolt Hole
jack,

If you are mounting the pads to a standard aluminum thwart in addition to the neck clearance problem that Jim brought up, there is the issue of the bolt hole weakening the thwart. Two 3/8" bolt holes in alignment thru a thwart would worry me; just a bit too tight on the nut and you are ready to squish the tube and have it fail.

If it was a big oval aluminum thwart in an MichiCraft aluminum canoe, no worries. But the Wenonah or Savage River thwarts, big question mark about making a couple holes.

Bill

#10

You are both right
I just got a e-mail back from John Diller and he is advising using a yoke.



I didn’t want to use a heavy wooden one since I am trying to think “light”



Back to the drawing board !



Jack L


#11

I had a 1974 Sawyer Cruiser
to which I added a Sawyer yoke. The yoke had the pads mounted to a U-shaped piece of aluminum extrusion, and was bolted onto the thwart with two 1/4" bolts as memory serves. I am sure the extrusion made up for the weakness caused by the drilling of the thwart.



Jim