Yep... Specially when the stern gland packing collapses in a force 5 gale and are up to your knees in bilge water trying to replace it.... Bags of fun!..
I paddled a 17 foot aluminum canoe from St. Paul, Minnesota, down the Mississippi to New Orleans, hung a left and went along the Gulf Coast, to Key West, Florida.
In Key West, a friend helped me rig it with a sail; and I sailed it along the Atlantic Coast to the Hudson River, and the Erie Canal, crossed lake Onario twice, lake Erie once, and stopped north of Detroit, Michigan.
I lived in that canoe for 2 years; and it was good fun!
Geriatrix2: Yep... Specially when the stern gland packing collapses in a force 5 gale and are up to your knees in bilge water trying to replace it.... Bags of fun!..
Two words...
"Positive Flotation."
And who designs boats with holes in the hull anyways?
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