Trad canoe ?

[Flinttim]

I picked up an old fiberglass canoe and it needs some TLC and a good cleaning up. It is now a puke yellow color and I may paint it. Anyone ever painted a glass canoe (I know it will scuff off the bottom but that's OK) and anyone done one with an archery theme ? Color scheme, theme, camo ?

[bushytail]

It would be pretty cool to paint it up like a Indian canoe.Maybe a birch bark pattern.Or trase your hand on the side near the front.Or stick archers shooting at stick deer.

[Orion]

Fiberglass takes paint pretty well.  If you're going to use it for hunting, duck boat drab olive or marsh brown are two good colors.  When I think traditional canoe, though, I think wood and canvas canoe.  

[Coldfingers]

ruff er up with a bit of steel wool, prime and paint. Nice thing about a glass canoe is that the patches are the strongest places on em.

Funny though, when I think trad canoe, I think "19 foot grumman freighter" with a lift to motor up through skinny water ;*)

Canoes got style.

Scotty

[John Nail]

Tim, birchbark would be hard to do--even for you. How about some caveman drawings of animals and archers? Maybe an Ishi theme? I look forward to seeing it(and maybe riding in it) Very cool project.

[John Nail]

The "Puke yellow" might draw into Osage?

[laddy]

Trad canoe would be my Seliga.  It would be a shame to paint it up. for a fiberglass that can be hunted out of, I would match the vegetation.  I used to have an old town that was river colored for sneaking up on ducks.  I got a deer once while duck hunting with it.You probably already have thought of this, but watch that lower limb when shooting at ducks and deer from a canoe.  It makes a terrible noise when you hit the gunnel with the bow, and it leaves you with a takedown recurve all over the place.

[Danny Roberts]

Sounds great ! I'm gonna' try my hand with a dugout before long. That will be my ultimate Trad canoe. Good luck and send us some pics.

[horatio1226]

How about gluing bark to it?Birch bark would be great. You could then finish it with some varnish.

[horatio1226]

Definitely pics!

[horatio1226]

Definitely pics!

[JEFF B]

sounds like yall having to much fun    ya got to post pics for sure.

[Dave2old]

Tim -- I love your Ronnie quote; perhaps the most honest thing he or any politician ever said! Re the canoe, I don't know about repainting but insofar as all canoes are muscle-powered, all are traditional. That's the raw bone for "traditional" ... do we do it ourselves, or do we buy it? My fiberglass canoe was bought used 23 years ago, and still keeps me dry. More power to material modesty! dave

[Ron LaClair]

Real Birch Bark is a blast. This picture was taken right after I got my Bark canoe.

   

[Flinttim]

John Nail, if you can do a "J" stroke, you got the stern, otherwise it's the bow for you.
  This old canoe was given to my nephew by a neighbor. The kid ain't all that bright and could stand the $50 I'm giving him( I would have felt I took him at $40     ).I got it cheap enough to play with. I lost my 18 footer some time back in the war and have missed it a lot.
  I can already visualize a float trip down the White River with bows in tow.
 BTW, what's that little stick figure goomers name that Mojam uses on it's logo and Tshirts ? He might be included.

[Billy]

Looks like ya mite do the cleanup and just use some black spray paint to imitate Ron's Birchy...maybe some brown for darkening bigger patches??

I wonder..will the new Indy mayor, allow us to bow hunt that stretch of the White River ,now?? Lotsa geese,ducks,carp,deer in that stretch.

Be kinda cool just to float thru with a bow/canoe flotilla...

[Kip]

Tim My first canoe was a yellow fiberglass canoe that I had my body shop buddy paint a dark green.You are right it won't last on the keel but will be O.K. for a good while.The memories that boat is bringing back right now some solo trips and hunting out of it with a buddy and camping away from everybody.I now have an Old Town Camper royellex but doesn't do much more than my old yellow/green canoe did.Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.Kip

[Flinttim]

Billy, I would feel woefully "undergunned" with a bow in downtown Indy.
 My brother in law has a Mad River Kevlar hanging in his garage. He's too sick to use it but even when he was well he used it little. I think the high cost of it and fear of hurting it was the reason. Guns and bows are for shootin' and canoes are for floating.

[Ron LaClair]

Some canoe pictures

   
   
   

[Ron LaClair]