@yknpdlr said:
90-miler voyageur on a 1984 Ford F250, still going strong:
Wait a minute. Just how long is that canoe? How many paddlers? How many people put it up on the truck? That truck is about 20 ft.
My experience with hauling kayaks is with pickup trucks, specifically a Toyota Tacoma with access cab and a Nissan Frontier with crew cab. I employ a Harbor Freight bed extender oriented vertically as the rear cargo carrier and a single home made cargo carrier on the roof. The setup works well for my 15’ 6" Squamish. The Tacoma is a 2007 4 cylinder with 5 speed standard transmission and gets 21-22 mpg on average. The Nissan Frontier is a 2017 V6 with 6 speed automatic transmission and gets about 19 mpg. Both are 4 WD. The Nissan’s crew cab takes away bed space so I can’t easily put my bicycle in the back of that one. My wife has a Subaru Forester, but it isn’t used to haul kayaks. The Nissan’s ride is soft and more like a car. I like all three vehicles.
Very nice.
@Overstreet said:
Wait a minute. Just how long is that canoe? How many paddlers? How many people put it up on the truck? That truck is about 20 ft.
The canoe is 34 feet long. It was constructed from meshing two 17 ft C2 strip canoes open sterns together before the stern ends were completed. It is normally configured for 6 paddlers in line, but a 7th seat could be added. It can be mounted on the truck with only two people lifting, though I have done it alone, lifting to place one end at a time. The canoe has paddled (and won) several Adirondack 90-miler races, though now it is mostly retired, awaiting modification of seats and a new crew.
Strange; when I demoed 2005 Tacomas and Frontiers, the Tacomas handled like crap, wallowy and soft. For that and many other reasons, I bought a Frontier. Not what I had expected, having owned two Toyota trucks previously.
My manual-tranny Frontier (4WD) gets 20-21 mpg highway with BFG All Terrain KO tires. With the lighter and milder-tread stock tires, it had gotten a tad higher mpg, maybe 0.5 mpg difference.
My Over 8000 lb 2004 Excursion gets over twenty mpg highway.
@yknpdlr said:
@Overstreet said:
Wait a minute. Just how long is that canoe? How many paddlers? How many people put it up on the truck? That truck is about 20 ft.The canoe is 34 feet long. It was constructed from meshing two 17 ft C2 strip canoes open sterns together before the stern ends were completed. It is normally configured for 6 paddlers in line, but a 7th seat could be added. It can be mounted on the truck with only two people lifting, though I have done it alone, lifting to place one end at a time. The canoe has paddled (and won) several Adirondack 90-miler races, though now it is mostly retired, awaiting modification of seats and a new crew.
Interesting. Looks like a Canadian “dragon boat”.
This canoe is raced in the voyageur canoe class, formerly called the “war canoe” class, but changed to be PC, I guess. I don’t know what a Canadian dragon boat looks like, although I have guest paddled during a training session with the Australian National Dragon Boat Team in Canberra. I’ve seen Canadian First Nation dugout boats constructed and paddled in the Yukon and Alaska. Is that what you mean as a possible resemblance ? Neither is anything close.
@yknpdlr said:
This canoe is raced in the voyageur canoe class, formerly called the “war canoe” class, but changed to be PC, I guess. I don’t know what a Canadian dragon boat looks like, although I have guest paddled during a training session with the Australian National Dragon Boat Team in Canberra. I’ve seen Canadian First Nation dugout boats constructed and paddled in the Yukon and Alaska. Is that what you mean as a possible resemblance ? Neither is anything close.
Some pun intended…long boat lots of paddlers. Every culture seems to have a variation on that theme. “Dragon boats”, Japaneese inspired, are just popular right now down south. Our canoe club has a buffet table made from a 6-8 paddler(unclear story) steam bent wood racing canoe used by the club way back in the early part of its 30 years. Serves food better than hanging in the boat house. Nice to see modern versions.
