Larry Cable ) writes:

I don't buy this line. Colemans are marketed to the first time buyer that
doesn't know squat about how a canoe should really perform. Do you know any
experienced canoeist that make a Coleman their first choice? Why? Is it because
they are snobs? How about that they are smart enough to realize that they can
get a far superior product for a couple of hundred more.

I don't know what you are basing those statements on but here in Ontario
there are families with generations of experience in small boats of all
kinds. My father was a prospector and my grandfather a trapper and guide.
They weren't farting about in expensive boats for a lark on their summer
vacations. We have a long standing tradtion hereabouts of waterfront
family cottages handed down from generation to generation. There are very
few first time buyers unless they are immigrants and I admit there are a
some of those. Coleman's sell to cottage owners who have more sense than
your trend following "canoeist".


If all you are doing is dinking around in the lake, these boats are
fine. That doesn't make them a particularly good buy or a good choice.
There are several reasonably priced boats that perform better. Even
the old Grummans, or Marathons, which every they call themselves these
days, are superior boats. What does a grummie cost these days?
SYOTR Larry C.

you can't buy those other boats with Canadian Tire money.


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