what do you do with your old boats,weather it be an old Ram-x canoe,creak boat,or an old aquaterra sea kayak.
I’m assuming it’s not in a condition
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hypothetically, to be repaired or sold as a "project boat"?
Some boat manufacturers will take back their boats for recycling, all pretty much require you to pay for shipping, some may charge a fee on top of that. Just ask a distributor, or get on the website for the manufacturer and find a number and call and ask.
here are a few
ideas:
ask a local canoe club, outfitter, firedept if they want a ‘dummy’ boat for Swiftwater rescue practise.
Canoe:the ends make nice book shelves.
middle section can become a coffe table (w/ glass top). Royalex can be cut up and used for welding repairs. You can give the canoe to a local farmer as a trough for his animals…
plant flowers in it, hang it upside down underneath a ceiling and mount spotlights in it…
build a ‘dry land’ training and exercise mobile from it…saw it in half along the keel line and mount it upside down above a window for shade…
Only use for an old kayak I can think of: cut the ends off and use them as pylons or hockey goals or put a lamp inside and have a nice outdoor light (poly boats).
All more fun than dropping a boat off at the dumpster…
Freecycle
Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/
Type in the search word “freecycle”. Join a group in your area. Post it and give it away.
Just wondering
I fixed up a fiberglass poke boat.
I brought life back into a coleman ram-x scanoe.
I was just trying to figure out what you do if its a total wreck or you just feel to lazy to fix it up.
I like the book case idea.
THANKS
John