No, because so far there has not been a boat that fit me ideally. The one I have is very good but still a bit more height than I would like.
Since I live in a SK-scarce region and don’t feel like wasting thousands of dollars and much time changing boats every couple of years, I’ve paddled this one since late 2010. Thus, it is long-term if not “forever.” If I paddle something that is perfect, that would be reason to change, but I am not going to scour the country trying to find it.
Forever there shall be a boat.
Forever won’t be me.
With last hull I’ll be swearin’.
Perhaps cause I’m not Charon.
And when the coin comes off the eye,
on journey I could skiff,
game over paddled tricks.
It’s time for pick-up Styxx.
I have heard that you can get a dissolving boat to have your ashes launched in. I asked my kids to launch me on the Edisto River then go have a nice meal.
Basically what I do now.
@string said:
I have heard that you can get a dissolving boat to have your ashes launched in. I asked my kids to launch me on the Edisto River then go have a nice meal.
Basically what I do now.
Launched a friend that way in a paper “urn”. He splashed in. Then popped up bobbed around as air and water spit out the top. Then he sunk.
@Overstreet said:
@string said:
I have heard that you can get a dissolving boat to have your ashes launched in. I asked my kids to launch me on the Edisto River then go have a nice meal.
Basically what I do now.Launched a friend that way in a paper “urn”. He splashed in. Then popped up bobbed around as air and water spit out the top. Then he sunk.
Preacher said some words and we went to dinner.
Silly, but I picked the Edisto because I grew up on it, it’s beautiful, and enters the Atlantic at Edisto Beach where my Father built a house and we had a lot of good times.
@string said:
I have heard that you can get a dissolving boat to have your ashes launched in. I asked my kids to launch me on the Edisto River then go have a nice meal.
Basically what I do now.
Well, my will states that my ashes are to be split in two, and one half be dropped in the water off Stonington, CT and the other off Port Clyde, ME. Maybe a couple of dissolving sea kayaks might be a really cool way to do it.
But, my better half’s brother did the best one I’ve heard of – had his daughter shoot his ashes out of a cannon (A real one – about 2 ft long) into Muscongus Bay up in ME.
@string said:
Silly, but I picked the Edisto because I grew up on it, it’s beautiful, and enters the Atlantic at Edisto Beach where my Father built a house and we had a lot of good times.
The good old “ACE” basin !
Nanci and I got caught in a hellacious thunderstorm out in the middle of it and I thought sure we were going to meet our maker.
We didn’t know it but there were people on a porch with binoculars watching us battle our way to shore and we we finally made it one of them came running down on the beach and insisted we come up on the porch. They had dry towels and hot chocolate waiting for us.
Some nice people in this world !
Dissolving boat seems a complicated approach, though it would truly be someone’s last boat. I kinda like that idea. But in Jim’s case, a goodly portion of his ashes ended up in Muscongus Bay either out by Franklin or off off Pemaquid or from another spot which was just me dropping. Unless someone capsized in one of these runs, we were able to get well out there and not worry about an empty kayak floating around and causing a call to the CG.
Wayne, the cannon idea is seriously neat.
BTW, strictly speaking I think all of these drops were illegal. But after coming home with plastic jugs and bottles and chunks of flotation from paddles, doesn’t feel like any of this was an issue.
Kruger Sea Wind. Solo expedition canoe. Strongest production boat on the market. 12 layers of Kevlar. The hull design holds the world record for the longest paddle trip…28,000 miles ,3.5 years. Holds a lot, stable, comfortable, can sleep in it, sail mount, can catamarand two together, strong, easy to portage. Built by legend Verlen Kruger. I’ll be buried in it. 
I was caught in it’s sibling on the ICW at Hilton Head . It was like being on the business end of an artillery barrage. Screaming wind, driving rain, lightening strikes all around.
I told God if He wanted me , He had me.
I was in my first “kayak” , a 14’ Perception Acadia rec boat. It was half full of water but it wasn’t far to my parents in law’s house.
Waiting for me was a very upset young wife and 3 young children.
I got a lot better at being prepared after that.
@paddletothesea said:
Kruger Sea Wind. Solo expedition canoe. Strongest production boat on the market. 12 layers of Kevlar. The hull design holds the world record for the longest paddle trip…28,000 miles ,3.5 years. Holds a lot, stable, comfortable, can sleep in it, sail mount, can catamarand two together, strong, easy to portage. Built by legend Verlen Kruger. I’ll be buried in it.
That’s a waste of a good boat.
@string said:
@paddletothesea said:
Kruger Sea Wind. Solo expedition canoe. Strongest production boat on the market. 12 layers of Kevlar. The hull design holds the world record for the longest paddle trip…28,000 miles ,3.5 years. Holds a lot, stable, comfortable, can sleep in it, sail mount, can catamarand two together, strong, easy to portage. Built by legend Verlen Kruger. I’ll be buried in it.That’s a waste of a good boat.
PTTS : you pitched the Krueger to well. There will probably be a grave robbery scandal.
The Cheasapeake Light Craft company says to be careful when building the boat or you might have to hold a Viking Funeral…then they show a hull on fire.
I’ve never had the joy of purchasing a coffin (and don’t plan to), but I suspect that even a top end sea kayak is the less expensive way to “go”.
My descendants have been instructed to cremate me, mix the ashes with appropriate paint, then paint some high end expedition kayaks. These kayaks will be given to various expedition paddlers on several continents. As the paint wears off, my ashes will be spread across earth’s oceans.
I like to have 2 forever boats, one with a rudder and one without. After owning a number of both, my current ones are QCC 700 and Ikkuma 17. I have not paddled any that I like better.
The closest I have to being a forever boat is a restored, 1966, wood/canvas Chestnut Pal.
That being said, I’d sell it for an obscene price to someone with more money than sense.
3 boats I would seriously have some concern about letting go of would be my Bell Wildfire, Lotus Caper, Mad River Guide, and Mohawk Odyssey, They suit my current needs quite well; 4 of the 5are pictured.
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Boats I wish I’d never sold: Curtis Dragonfly, Hemlock SRT, Swift Osprey. I’m looking for replacements for all 3…
Said I’d never sell my Curtis Nomad, Lotus Caper, Lotus Egret and Cygnet, 1920 Old Town 50#, Loonworks Mistral, but all are gone now. Along with literally a couple dozen others I wasn’t as in love with. Counted up the other day and was surprised to realize that over 40 solos have passed through my garage over the decades. But after all that, still have my Bell Wildfire which is one I never will sell…probably.
I’ve paddled a ton of kayaks canoes and even some skis and nothing has made me want to change my main boat–NC Expedition.
