Should I take my Canoe?

[Bobcat]

Heading out for a week plus on Leketoy. My niece gets married on Saturday at Roche Harbor on San Juan Island. I am taking the boat. I will be knocking around the San Juans for the next week with one of my kids and friends from Denver (each part of the week) I have a 16 foot Royalex Old Town canoe. I use it a lot. It's set up for rowing, both fixed and sliding seat (won't bring that stuff) as well as paddling up to four people.

I plan to build a roof rack with rollers for the top of the pilothouse, but, as you would expect, I have not even started it, and we leave early on Friday.

I have foam blocks to carry the canoe on a car top. Anyone see a problem with pretending the pilothouse roof is a car top and putting the canoe belly button up on the foam, with tie downs to my handrails?

Anyone done such a thing?

[Canoez]

Heading out for a week plus on Leketoy. My niece gets married on Saturday at Roche Harbor on San Juan Island. I am taking the boat. I will be knocking around the San Juans for the next week with one of my kids and friends from Denver (each part of the week) I have a 16 foot Royalex Old Town canoe. I use it a lot. It's set up for rowing, both fixed and sliding seat (won't bring that stuff) as well as paddling up to four people.

I plan to build a roof rack with rollers for the top of the pilothouse, but, as you would expect, I have not even started it, and we leave early on Friday.

I have foam blocks to carry the canoe on a car top. Anyone see a problem with pretending the pilothouse roof is a car top and putting the canoe belly button up on the foam, with tie downs to my handrails?

Anyone done such a thing?

Should you take your canoe? <Mumble, grumble, grump...>

Of COURSE you should.

[StevenBauer]

Yep. Bring it. And your camera.


Steven

[Bobcat]

I will and will!

[callsign222]

Yeah, what kind of question is this? Is there any debate?

[Gerarddm]

Going to be cold and gray, though, alas. Forecast for the next ten days is despicable.

[James McMullen]

Definitely bring your canoe, but also definitely make sure that your friends from Denver know about where the tidal currents can be dangerous. There are many places up there where it will be literally impossible to paddle against the current if they go too far. Lots of safe little harbors where it will be beautiful, but also places where an open canoe is not very safe. Speiden Channel just outside of Roche Harbor is one of these places.

[Nicholas Scheuer]

Very nice Vessel!