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Eric Mathews provides rich and detailed information about the repair process to his Royalex Whitewater canoe. Also, make sure to check out the photos of his handcrafted seats and extra fine skid plate installation!
Backstory:
I purchased a 1985 Mohawk Whitewater 16' in 2021 in relatively good shape for an almost 40 year old canoe. There was existing patching done through the hull on the stern behind the rear seat and a flexing crack on the bow just ahead of the front seat. I took the canoe on a yearly multi-day trip on the James River in SW Virginia and for the first 2 days she held watertight and handled like a dream even when loaded down with camping gear. However, as I navigated a rocky rapid field just north of my day 2 campsite the patch on the stern failed and a beautiful geyser began to fill the boat. I set up camp and saved the hassle for day 3 as I failed to prepare an emergency patching kit this trip, never again! The final day I ran the locally famous 'Balcony Fallls' class 3 rapid, and subsequent class 1/2/2+ field while constantly bailing water and/or pulling ashore to flip-drain the ailing ship. Luckily I made it through the final flatwater stretch while continuously bailing with a cut gatorade bottle. During this final bit of paddling I decided to keep the canoe and figure out how to make the proper repairs myself that would last years, maybe decades. The boat handled too well to throw away and newer boats lack the character this vessel earned through time on the water.
Repairs/upgrades:
First, I had no idea this was even a Mohawk canoe until I stripped down the ugly orange paint job some fool gave her which revealed a serial plate and number. I searched the web using just the number and through amazing free service was able to at least identify the manufacturer, Mohawk Canoes! I found their customer service email address and sent the serial number and pretty quickly learned the make/model/year/hull material for my boat. It was made in Florida in 1985 using Royalex as the hull material. I had never even heard of this material but quickly researched it and fell in love even more with the idea of restoring the canoe to salvage this amazing material...especially knowing none were being produced anymore. I'm typing this in August 2023, the same month I completed the repairs below, and me and the boat will both be 37 years old this month.
First trip in my new boat
I live near Richmond Virginia and took out the finished boat on an all day paddle through some nice class 2+ rapids. Everything held great even after flipping the boat and having it pin up a few times. The repairs are solid and even though I got a ton of scratches on the paint it still looks great and no chipping or flaking occured. The seats are eye-catching and comfortable and should stand the test of time as well. I'm going to do my best to keep this boat in my family and have it outlive me...even if a few more repairs down the line come my way.
Happy paddling!
Eric
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Bart Isaac purchased a 2000 Blazer in 2021 and walks us through his refurbishing process:
Greetings! I purchased my fiberglass Mohawk canoe in October of 2021 as it was no longer being used by a camp rental in the Okefenokee Swamp in southern Georgia. I purchased it from the owner for a small amount and planned to just fish it with my son "as is".
However, I like to tinker and felt the boat could use an update. The date code suggests it was made in Feb 2000.
I did fish with it a few times before taking it apart for a refurbish this past December. I removed all of the aluminum and replaced it with scratch built wooden parts. I also removed the original foam, replaced it with fresh 2 part foam from Total Boat and then fully fiberglassed the bow and stern.The gunnels and sets are ash while the deck, thwart and handles are cherry. I painted it inside and out with Total Boat one part poly and the color is amazing (Aqua Mist). All the wood is UV protected with a couple coats of Pettit 1015 varnish.
Here are some pictures of the process and the finished canoe. I almost hate to take it out for some redfishing here in Northeast Florida, but I'm definitely going to do that soon!
Bart
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Mike McCrea is no stranger to rehabbing old canoes. "I repair or refurbish a few canoes every year", Mike says. " A lot of boat repair – paint, epoxy, urethane, adhesives - is short work and walk away. At long last I’ve found my dream job; 20-minute days, and all the unpaid leave I desire." This time, Mike tackles a 2003 Nova 16 rehab project. Click here and here to see Mike's photo albums of the rehab, and read on below to experience the rehab through Mike's eyes...
"The Nova 16 is friend Jane’s canoe, a three-seater purchased so she could introduce her young daughters to canoeing. Her husband, despite owning a growing fleet of his own, also used it occasionally, as did her daughters without her. And then it sat, UV protected under a deck, for a decade or more.
The unmaintained thwarts needed replacement and the Nova 16 was so years-of-accumulated grime filthy that a thorough scrubbing inside and out was the first order of business. That cleaning revealed a 20-year collection of yuck hosed out from under the inwales, but other than some minor wear area on the stems the canoe was in remarkably good condition.
The stems needed only Dynel fabric, graphite powder and G/flex mini-skid plates. The peel ply compressed Dynel skid plates are barely 1/16” thick, weigh 2oz total and are five times more abrasion resistant than S-glass.
Half of the webbing yoke had been “borrowed” to use in another canoe by a spouse-who-shall-be-nameless; luckily Jane didn’t notice and I had part of a Mohawk web yoke to salvage missing pieces.
Replacing the missing strap yoke parts was an easy fix, as was everything else.
New thwarts, or actually new old thwarts; from a stash of ash DIY’s I made 20 years ago; out of a dozen made I had three left. Webbing loops with 3/16” holes melted through the folded ends installed on the machine screw shanks; the easiest, sturdiest tie points imaginable. Both new thwarts got a length of bungee with a grabber dowel, run through an underside cord lock for easy tension-ability.
Painter keeper bungee, also with cord locks, through existing holes on the expansive deck plates. That use occluded the molded-in deck plate holes for painter lines, so painters attached to new carry thwarts at either end, waste not, want not made from scraps of the old thwarts. Again with webbing loops below, for a total of eight sheerline height tie points.
No frou-frou outfitting this time. No D-rings, back band, foot brace, minicel knee bumpers or utility sail thwart, just back to a stock 3-seater Mohawk Nova 16. Balanced hanging from the shop scale, 67lbs. I added a whopping 22oz of outfitting.
The Nova 16 had an oddly adventurous and multipurpose early life, including as Jane’s solo canoe (excellent swamp canoe). And use by a spouse who shall be nameless, who has more canoes than hairs on his head, occasionally “borrowing” it for unauthorized trips with the dog. Good dog companion canoe; good dog, naughty spouse.
The Nova 16 saw frequent participation in oddball “Canoe Olympics” competitions, including Stand-up paddle races, both Father & Child Class and Mixed Juniors Class. The Nova 16’s shallow arch makes a wonderfully stable canoe for a 35” beam tandem.
The Nova 16 ruled the infamous Tandem Backwards races; two paddlers per canoe, facing in opposite directions. For some reason mixed double and single blades were often the weapons of choice. Teams were given the choice of either facing opposite ends of the canoe or facing inwards towards each other. Facing your partner provoked too much helpless off course laughter and experience showed that facing away was the more “efficient” option.
There was little enough efficiency; the canoecluster at the mass start of that bass-akwards race, with boats veering which way, was comical to behold. The “secret” was to get clear of the chaos quickly. Jane, facing forward, opted to dig hard correction strokes with a single blade, and rounded the far turn ahead of the competition with an insurmountable lead.
I credit her partner; that’s my wife in the stern facing the stern, providing backpaddling power with a long double blade."
And what's next for Mike? "I’m keeping an eye out for a derelict Solo 13 or 14, or a Pack", Mike says. "Smaller canoes are easier to rehab."
Update from Mike: "The Nova 16 was sold to a nice young couple, who set a shuttle before they arrived and did a river trip on their way home. I am beyond delighted that the Nova stayed local."
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Peter Cook gave new life to an otherwise forgotten boat:
"I finally got the muck wet sanded off my Mohawk fiberglass I found abandoned for over 20 years in the woods near our home. Next will be an aqua buff session then waxing.
Fortunately all that lichen and muck layers preserved the gel coat. Only a few minor scratches. Its like a new canoe.
Photos attached of before and after. Looking forward to getting it back on the water."
Here is Peter's update after getting the boat back in the water:
"I have had many paddles on the neighborhood pond so far. It handles very well and I’m enjoying it."
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Tom Roberts renovated his Sportsman into an outrigger hunting canoe and plans to join his son for duck hunting in some recently discovered hunting places:
I just finished my work on it and plan to get it out very soon and for sure during duck season. I’ve got a young German Wirehaired Pointer that I’m training and want to get him use to riding in it. Canoeing is a new experience for me and am looking forward to getting it out. I live in Muskogee, Ok. We have a house overlooking the Arkansas River [pictured above]. Not sure I want to use the canoe on that big a body of water but there are lots of nice places in my area! Also, my son recently moved to Omaha, NE and has already found lots of potential duck hunting places that a canoe and/or kayak could be used. So it looks like I’ll be making some trips up there.
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Peter Blanc created a flickr photo album in which he explains the diagnosis and prognosis for his XL 13. To view the entire photo album documenting the project from start to finish and to read Peter's description of the repair stages, click here.
Here's Peter on restoring his XL 13:
This collection of albums details the repair and reoutfitting of a venerable, old Royalex whitewater canoe. I will probably use this boat for canoe camping and downriver trips on Class I-II rivers.
I found cracks beneath the old "rodeo style" foam pedestal that extended all the way through the Royalex foam core. Water seeping through these cracks had presumably resulted in delamination of the exterior, thinned-out solid ABS layer of the Royalex creating a sizable void between the core and the outer ABS layer. In addition the stems had significant abrasion damage with abrasion into the foam core at the stern.
After repairs and reoutfitting were completed and the hull bottom was painted, Peter had this to say:
Although the boat looks better and I believe it to be sound, it still has plenty of battle scars for character as befits an old whitewater canoe. As the old saying goes "once a beater, always a beater."
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H. Roger Corbett was a canoe enthusiast (his canoe of choice was a Mohawk Intrepid 16) who authored several canoe guide books, including his most popular guidebook titled "Virginia Whitewater". Two Mohawk Canoe owners, Chip Walsh and Mike McCrea, shared their memories and thoughts about Corbett and the legacy that he left:
From Chip Walsh:
"Roger Corbett was my canoeing mentor, and the author of "Virginia Whitewater". His knowledge of rivers in Virginia and surrounding states was encyclopedic. He was able to tell me what was around the corner on every river we paddled. Sadly, he passed away in 2003. Corbett paddled a 16’ Intrepid."
From Mike McCrea:
"The cover photo of Corbett on my 1988 Virginia guide is different than latter editions, more of a straight on shot of Corbett, still in what looks like a Whitewater or Intrepid, but the canoe is green with a white under-gunwale stripe.
I’m thinking Corbett, who led a lot of group trips, added that stripe so his canoe was follow-the-leader instantly identifiable. I had not deliberately copied Corbett when I started adding white under-gunwale stripes, but now see the wisdom.
I did begin to copy one Corbett mannerism on group trips. When Corbett led a trip he would organize “We are meeting here, dropping shuttle here and launching here at X O’clock". Corbett grew to have little patience for folks dawdling at the launch, so he would put his canoe in the water, get in, say “I’ll be waiting in the first eddy downstream” and paddle away. I adopted that practice too.
Corbett was a towering figure in guidebook style; he taught Ed Gertler (guidebooks for NJ, PA, Maryland and Delaware, and now a revised VA guide), and Ed Ferguson duplicated that style with guidebooks to paddling NC and SC. Having guides written in the same user friendly style from NJ to SC is a huge boon.
Corbett's publisher described his book "Virginia Whitewater" this way:
"Virginia Whitewater" is a description of more than 200 rivers, creeks, and runs throughout Virginia. These descriptions include technical data, river/road maps, gauging information, and a narrative of the river trips. The streams vary from swift mountain creeks to large Piedmont rivers, from the Appalachian Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. All watersheds in Virginia are covered in this one volume, providing paddlers with a wide range of river experiences from which to choose float trips, whitewater trips, and camping trips.
To purchase H. Roger Corbett's "Virginia Whitewater", including options to purchase a signed copy, click here.
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Chris from Olympia, Washington shares his photos and favorite paddling spots with his Solo 14:
Solo 14, Royalite, bought January 1999. Still going strong. Set it up for whitewater at first, with floatation and thigh straps, but these days it seldom sees anything over Class 1. Paddled the Bowron Lakes circuit in BC, the Missouri Breaks in Montana, and a lot of shorter trips all over Oregon and Washington.
Chris has a quote from John Muir at the bottom of his email that is worth sharing: "Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world."
Photo descriptions, from left to right, top to bottom:
1) Drifting down the Missouri Breaks in September 2000
2) Exploring Puget Sound in 2014
3) Ozette Lake 3-day trip in 2016
4) Paddling along Hood Canal in 2013
5) Exploring Summit Lake in Washington in 2009
6) Spotted by Bigfoot on the Deschutes River in Oregon in 2021
7) Start of a Black River-Chehalis River overnight in 2020
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Katherine Mull shared some beautiful photos of her and her family, including her granddaughter and her river cat (!), as they created memories with their Mohawk Solo 13. Below, Katherine shares some memories and thoughts about her Solo 13:
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Doug Doremus of Penacook, NH shared his photos and restauration process in bringing his 1989 Blazer back to life. One of Doug's friends Topher calls Doug "The Canoe Whisperer" because Doug "doesn't help people with canoe problems, he helps canoes with people problems!" The boat, which Doug affectionately refers to as "The Goober Boat", needed quite a bit of work as Doug describes below. Click here to see all of the pictures and read the entire story behind about Doug's "Goober Boat.
Here's are some excerpts from Doug's blog entry:
For the last three years this guy at work in Maintenance has been bugging me to fix his canoe. He picked it up for two hundred and fifty bucks but a tree limb had dropped on it and the owner at that time fixed it best he could. Well, somewhere along the way a new crack appeared that was letting water in. Time for me to take a look at it.
As it turns out it is a 1989 Mohawk 16' Blazer in Kevlar. Now Kevlar back in the time was not what it is today, more like a chopper type cloth, very rough but fairly light for a boat of it's time. Ok, so why am I calling this write up the Goober Boat? Well, the guy who tried to fix this was a Goober and perhaps I'm showing my age but the Gomer Ply Show had a guy named Goober, I think. Regardless, the name sticks in my gray matter so there ya go!
Now I guess it was stored in the out of doors cause it had mold spots and a layer of dirt thick enough to start a garden on! And the previous fixes where like little volcanoes of resin or maybe something else cause ya never know what folks use for patches, there were a lot of them! Yee Gads I said!
For a twenty-five year old boat that had a tree fall on it and twist it as bad as my back it handles really well. The gunwales have an interesting turn to them from that event but all is good. Very light and tracks sweetly! Nice and stable as well. If it weren't for the inner kevlar lining I would be very interested in this hull but it is as I mentioned it is more like the chopper layup.
I knew where the inner hull leaks where but marked them with tape as I want to put a layer of resin on them as well. In the meantime I am going to let this hull bake in the shed, it gets hot in there, so the foam core can dry out. My plan is to lay a layer of resin over this whole area. I marked out the area I want to address and am hoping I'm not missing anything.
Although the patching looks like hell the Goober Boat was a wreak to begin with. I finally, after two days of toting it around on my car hooked with the owner. He was quite happy with the whole fix, please picture that every other word outta his mouth starts with F and I've known him for a long while. All is good in his eyes and so it good in mine. I think the best part was coming up with the moniker, Goober Boat! Of course I didn't mention that to him but maybe I will.
Done Deal!
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Mike McCrea shares his love for his 2004 Odyssey 14 and some stories behind his boat. Mike is a master story teller (read his blog entries to see for yourself!), and we appreciate him sharing his stories in such detail. Read below to learn about Mike and his Odyssey 14:
"The Mohawk Odyssey 14 is my favorite steam and creek canoe, especially for occasionally shallow water gravel bars. I tell people “It’ll float across a dew lawn”, and it proved it on the very first trip.
I had traded one of our tandems to a young family man for his nearly new, factory outfitted Odyssey 14, and he was quite proud of the hull’s pristine condition. The very first trip, on section of river with no gauge or useful correlation, after a long complex multi-vehicle shuttle, we arrived at the put in and, in near unison, remarked “That looks really low”.
The “trip organizer”, (not me), who had never before paddled this section, replied “I think it gets deeper”. We debated it, but we were there, at the put in, in great weather, with the shuttle set, Whadda ya gonna do, drive home like a wimp?
That would have been a wise choice. It did not get deeper, the tributaries were trickles, and in places that should have had fun waves and rapids there was often barely a hull’s width to sneak between boulders. Eh, sometimes less than a hull width, and the rocks and boulders weren’t the worst of it.
The river narrowed at a bridge crossing. A bridge supported by a mid-stream concrete pylon. A pylon with a long, rectangular and noticeably crumble decayed foundation, now fully exposed by the low water, smack dab where the only available current piled in shallow curl against it.
The only run-able spot was tight against that foundation. By “tight” I mean I couldn’t I couldn’t get much of a paddle blade in the water to even set up an approach, or effect a draw, and could only cringe as one side of the canoe skreeeeked against the crusty concrete foundation. It was a memorably long concrete foundation; I remember because, without the ability to brace, I bodily hugged most of that concrete trying to keep my head inside the gunwales.
The Odyssey 14 will indeed float across a dewy lawn, or down a stream below anyone’s estimated level of “Canoe Zero”.
That was not the Odyssey’s only shallows trip, but that one is another story, involving a local dam fed river with a USGS on-line gauge, which I had watched, and checked that morning. They unexpectedly closed the gates during the hour it took us to set shuttle and drive to the put in. “That looks really low”. It involved more wading & dragging than paddling. Another memorable trip.
The Odyssey is such a user friendly solo canoe that everyone in the family paddles it, and it sees action as a newbie loaner canoe. Still going strong 18 years later, it has the usual bottom scratches, but those concrete foundation scrapes, high up on the left chine, yeah, I remember them. And I smile. Scratches, scrapes and dents hold stories.
The Odyssey came with factory float bags, lacing, straps and D-rings. In a testimony to Mohawk’s factory outfitting everything is, 18 years later, still solidly in place. Which is surprising because I have never taken the float bags out. That is not a recommended practice, but it is nice to have one canoe always laced, strapped and bagged at the ready. Those bags are UV bleached near white in places, still no leaks.
The Odyssey also came with a Mohawk Strap Yoke, and I have since put a strap yoke in each of our solos, and in a dozen friend’s solo canoes. No little parts and pieces to twistdiddle with or lose, always there, rolled up out of the way under an inwale, mere seconds to connect or disconnect. A genius simple solo canoe carry yoke solution.
The aluminum plate seat hangers came with small plastic spacers, allowing the seat to be changed to the desired elevation or cant angle; I once calculated that there were 16 different heights and angles possible using those hangers and spacers. Another simple genius solution to personalized seat height and angle; dial it in just right, leave it there.
The webbed Mohawk seat was still solid after 15 years, but I replaced it with a laminated ash and basswood double contour Conk seat, mostly because I had one in the shop, and that special seat needed to go in some desirable and oft used solo.
The two loose straps around the seat are there to hold a slightly deflated (for good sitz bones contact) ThermaRest seat pad for cupped derriere padding. That pad wraps around the front seat rail for some kneeling under-thigh comfort as well.
With the canted & contoured seat, carved minicel inwale bumpers for knee comfort, an adjustable foot brace (padded of course) and a back band, I can lock into the canoe at five points of contact while seated. And if that isn’t enough drop to more prayerful position on the kneeling pads.
The Odyssey got all of the other customary outfitting touches; High Intensity reflective tape bow and stern, large deck plate drain holes, and painter keeper bungees in a / \ pattern.
With the painter line always held between the / \ and extracted the same way it is impossible to yank the line out underneath a bungee cord. No more grabbing a painter in a hurry only to find some boingy-boingy bungee trapped painter elasticity is inadvertently involved.
After some years of shallows abuse, when the vinyl wear area on the stems was apparent, the Odyssey got Dynel fabric skid plates. Installed with G/flex epoxy, black pigment and graphite powder, roller compressed under release treated peel ply. Tough as nails, with a no-gurgle thin profile.
And, finally, modified bow and stern spray shields, which serve both to keep standing wave action out, and help protect the float bags from punctures and UV exposure."
Click here to see Mike's entire online flickr album for his 2004 Odyssey 14.
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I am now 99.9% certain it is a Mohawk Whitewater. The only other early ‘80’s RX canoe close to the dimensions and stem layout was the Old Town Kennebec, and the person who gave it to me got it from a local paddler/guidebook author who was later noted for always paddling an Intrepid. The person who gave it to me may have gotten it from a local paddler/guidebook author Roger Corbett (Mohawk Canoes note: Corbett was a paddling figurehead of the Virginia region and also author of "Virginia Whitewater").
The ’84 Whitewater story:
I first refurbished this 1984 Mohawk Whitewater in 1999 and gave it to a friend, who ran it hard for the next 23 years, sometimes paddling, sometimes as a poling canoe.
It returned in 2022 for more extensive, and much needed, refurbishment.
The bottom was trashed from an incautious newbie loaner trip though a shallow graveyard of old steamships, slicing across every piece of sharp metal they could manage not to see. 25 slices in the vinyl skin.
The Mark of Zorro Z slice would have been interesting to witness. “We’re stuck, scootch forward, wait, scootch back. . . . .now forward”. It had a bad paint job, and a faded owner-applied moniker “Das Uber Bot”
This time, instead of a kneeling thwart, I set it up as a solo/tandem with a center seat. Patched and painted, with new brightwork and outfitting, it is a cushy tandem.
And, with the new vinyl gunwales drawn in a bit during the first rebuild, it is a solid solo canoe with a lot of years left.
If nothing else it has a distinctive color scheme.
In 2024 I’ll bake it a cake with candles in honor of its 40th birthday.
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Bill Raymond, of Presque Isle, Maine shared these pictures and stories of his 1983 Royalex Whitewater canoe:
I have owned my Mohawk since circa 1987; having purchased it from a local guide/outfitter, who had used these canoes for several years. I am assuming he had bought it new?
Originally, the canoe was red.
The thwarts were round aluminum.
Seats were also aluminum, and with aluminum deck-plates (bow & stern).
My modifications over the years (as you can see from the attached pictures) include:
- First, I painted it green (± 1990’s),
- They, I painted it ‘camo’ (during my duck-hunting days).
- Several ‘patches’ over the years (mostly with epoxy). Black paint covers the patches, and adds the ‘camo’ look.
- Recently, I replace it with wooden thwarts, and added a lower-thwart & ‘fishing’ shelf with rod holders.
- NOTE: All my canoes have had (home-made) bow-mounted anchor-mounts – not shown in the pictures).
Feel free to include my pictures in your new ‘SHOW ME YOUR MOHAWK” section. I have owned several canoes over the years (mostly, Old Town’s); however, my old 17’ Mohawk has always been my ‘GO-TO’ canoe for solo paddling, hunting, and fishing. It may not look like much, but the Mohawk just keeps on going. Originally, my kids were young and I remember four of us in this boat. Now, it’s my solo canoe, primarily for the rivers in northern Maine. It’ll probably outlast me – maybe I’ll have the pleasure to see my grandson owning it some day?
Thanks for your time,
Bill Raymond
Presque Isle, Maine
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Scott shared an awesome action photo of him in his Rodeo and described his passion for Mohawk boats and for giving new life to fatigued boats:
"I saw this on your website when I was looking up dimensions on some old boats. I've owned several Mohawks - Viper 12, 2 flat water fiberglass canoes, and currently a Probe 12 and the pictured Rodeo. I once bought a trailer load of Intrepids from Montreal college that they had worn out (and replacing) - I fixed them up and sold them to friends in our YMCA Adventure Guides program. Miss your boats - glad I've still got 2."
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Gene Garrett shares the story behind his Mohawk Blazer:
"17’ 8” of Mohawk beauty purchased from High Trails Canoes in Dallas, Texas summer 1979! The paddles I have are Mohawk bought with the canoe. Beautiful and durable fiberglass that only now needs Kevlar skid pads. I’m considering refurbishing and setting new custom cut Mohawk decals."
]]>(Click on photos above to enlarge) Robert Goeckel purchased a Solo 13 in 2021 which he modified. Robert says, "Bought this 13 Solo last year and set it up for fishing."
(Click on photos above to enlarge) Robert also recently came across a Scamp 14 that he decided to refurbish. Robert adds, "Just rescued this oldtimer today. Hope to bring it back to life. 14 Scamp. Not much information on it."
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John Reckord of Chester, Maryland created his own rowing rigging which allows for solo rowing in his 1995 Solo.
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Ralph Hawn describes the restoration process for his Mohawk Blazer canoe: