pmhilton wrote:
: bearsbuddy wrote:

:I have an Old Town "Camper"
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:
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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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