I'd get a trailer with rollers, and a small aluminum boat (14' or so)
and outboard (9.9 or so maybe). My experience ... it was way more work
to cartop my canoe than to trailer my 19' I/O.

On 3 Jul 2006 06:34:11 -0700, "bowgus" wrote:

I'd get a trailer with rollers, and a small aluminum boat (14' or so)
and outboard (9.9 or so maybe). My experience ... it was way more work
to cartop my canoe than to trailer my 19' I/O.

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I don't have anywhere to
keep a trailer. Hence the need for car-top transportation.

Al D

Al Deveron wrote:

On 3 Jul 2006 06:34:11 -0700, "bowgus" wrote:


I'd get a trailer with rollers, and a small aluminum boat (14' or so)
and outboard (9.9 or so maybe). My experience ... it was way more work
to cartop my canoe than to trailer my 19' I/O.


Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I don't have anywhere to
keep a trailer. Hence the need for car-top transportation.

Al D


What happened to your canoe?

Dan

On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 23:52:21 GMT, Dan Krueger
wrote:

What happened to your canoe?

I still have it. It's what I'm using right now.

Al D

This would fit your needs to a T. http://www.porta-bote.com/

Dan Krueger wrote:

Al Deveron wrote:

On 3 Jul 2006 06:34:11 -0700, "bowgus" wrote:


I'd get a trailer with rollers, and a small aluminum boat (14' or so)
and outboard (9.9 or so maybe). My experience ... it was way more work
to cartop my canoe than to trailer my 19' I/O.


Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I don't have anywhere to
keep a trailer. Hence the need for car-top transportation.

Al D


What happened to your canoe?

Dan

Here, check this out. it only weighs 150 lb. it has some sides on it
unlike the little pond fisherman pontoons, and you could probably put a
3 or 4 horse engine on it.

http://www.boatingchannel.com/cgi-bi..._display.html?



Al Deveron wrote:
On 3 Jul 2006 06:34:11 -0700, "bowgus" wrote:

I'd get a trailer with rollers, and a small aluminum boat (14' or so)
and outboard (9.9 or so maybe). My experience ... it was way more work
to cartop my canoe than to trailer my 19' I/O.

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I don't have anywhere to
keep a trailer. Hence the need for car-top transportation.

Al D

This one might be better, and it takes an engine.
only 110 lb.

http://www.boatingchannel.com/cgi-bi...6188635180261?



wrote:
Here, check this out. it only weighs 150 lb. it has some sides on it
unlike the little pond fisherman pontoons, and you could probably put a
3 or 4 horse engine on it.

http://www.boatingchannel.com/cgi-bi..._display.html?



Al Deveron wrote:
On 3 Jul 2006 06:34:11 -0700, "bowgus" wrote:

I'd get a trailer with rollers, and a small aluminum boat (14' or so)
and outboard (9.9 or so maybe). My experience ... it was way more work
to cartop my canoe than to trailer my 19' I/O.

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I don't have anywhere to
keep a trailer. Hence the need for car-top transportation.

Al D

On 3 Jul 2006 18:47:51 -0700, wrote:

This one might be better, and it takes an engine.
only 110 lb.

Thanks for the suggestion, but 110 lbs is just too heavy for me to get
on the roof of my car and portage single-handed. The stowage space
looks tight too, especially with two people on board. The 12 ft LOA
would limit its top speed too.

I'm thinking that one option would be to get a different design of
canoe: one with higher gunwales and maybe a V or U shaped hull.
Something like this shape, perhaps:

http://www.jollyroger.eclipse.co.uk/...le_canoe_1.JPG

....but built of modern lightweight materials. Comments appreciated.

Al D