bearsbuddy wrote:

I have an Old Town "Camper"




To second what John has said about replacing seats, you can get nylon
webbed seats from Porter's or Old Town. Not as aesthetic as cane but
strong as hell and nearly maintenance free. If you do decide to use cane
seats, a light rubdown with linseed oil or tung oil especially at
storage time will extend the cane's lengevity.

Pete H

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pmhilton wrote:
: bearsbuddy wrote:

:I have an Old Town "Camper"
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: To second what John has said about replacing seats, you can get nylon
: webbed seats from Porter's or Old Town. Not as aesthetic as cane but
: strong as hell and nearly maintenance free. If you do decide to use cane
: seats, a light rubdown with linseed oil or tung oil especially at
: storage time will extend the cane's lengevity.

There is a place in Chicago called Chicagoland Canoe Base. I don't remember
how much I paid for them, but they sold regular wood/cane seats, you'd have
to cut the ends to fit (I just used my old seats as the pattern) and drill a
hole on each end for the bolt, but that's all (prefinished).

http://www.chicagolandcanoebase.com

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Chicago Paddling-Fishing wrote:

There is a place in Chicago called Chicagoland Canoe Base. I don't remember
how much I paid for them, but they sold regular wood/cane seats, you'd have
to cut the ends to fit (I just used my old seats as the pattern) and drill a
hole on each end for the bolt, but that's all (prefinished).




Yep. The replacement seats, thwarts etc. from Old Town/Porter's are the
same - all cut a bit long to allow modifying to a variety of hulls. Note
here that when I put web seats in my XL Tripper to replace the original
molded ones I needed to make adjustments & drill extra holes in the
gunnels as well since the replacements were wider (front to back) than
the originals & I had to adjust a little to maintain "center of balance"
for each seat placement - really quite easy.

Personal taste only, but I consider the molded seats one of Old Town's
few design errors. They presume tandem paddling, reduce left-right shift
of the hiney for trim and until recent years didn't have drain holes to
shed splash/condensation.

Pete H

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