Repairing a 30 year old Canadian Canoe by melting tarpaulin into the hull. PICS

[Handmade Matt]

Hi guys.
I was given an old damaged canoe recently. Living close to the river Wye it's the perfect place to own one. The previous keepers realised they'd get more use out of it by letting me have it here.
It's a Coleman Ram-X 15. I checked the serial numbers on the hull and the boat is 28 years old.
She's been great in the water and I am about to write an article about a large multi day trip that I have just completed. I'll let you know when it's published.

Here's the article on my Handmade Matt blog about repairing the canoe, there's loads of pictures and great information:

http://handmadematt.blogspot.co.uk/2...e-of-life.html

I look forward to getting stuck in to this section of the Bushcraft forum as I've now got the canoe bug!

 

[Madriverrob]

Nice blog , great to see something still proving useful after some 30 years .
Looking forward to the trip report.....

 

[Zingmo]

A mate of mine made an emergency repair to his bikes oil tank by welding bits of bacon wrapper to it. Good stuff PE. Did you use a solvent of some sort to clean the area before doing the welding?

Z

 

[Janne]

Great job! I had a very similar Coleman canoe about 30 years ago. Stable, silent but a bit slow.