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fatlazyless · 11-10-2010, 04:58 PM

I have a Ranger Canoe.....and it's a pretty nice canoe.....just got it last spring......paid $200 for it if I remember correct.....it is about a 20-year old, red fiberglass (or something) 17' canoe fixer-upper.....and I replaced the water-logged wood & wicker seats w/ new canvas, a new carry yoke thwart, and an old A-Row-Bic rowing rig with extended oar locks and a sliding seat installed in the center. Ranger makes very nice canoes, made right in the geographic center of NH, ASHLAND NH, cannot get any more central NH than Ashland!

Plus, looking through craigslist in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts, there are like hundreds of old canoes for sale for one to four hundred dollars in either aluminum or fiberglass or plastic-synthetic and different sizes, 14-18'. Buying a used canoe is definately a buyers market now, probably because everyone is buying just kayaks, or something?

11-10-2010, 04:58 PM	#17
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,528 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 296 Thanked 957 Times in 698 Posts	I have a Ranger Canoe.....and it's a pretty nice canoe.....just got it last spring......paid $200 for it if I remember correct.....it is about a 20-year old, red fiberglass (or something) 17' canoe fixer-upper.....and I replaced the water-logged wood & wicker seats w/ new canvas, a new carry yoke thwart, and an old A-Row-Bic rowing rig with extended oar locks and a sliding seat installed in the center. Ranger makes very nice canoes, made right in the geographic center of NH, ASHLAND NH, cannot get any more central NH than Ashland! Plus, looking through craigslist in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts, there are like hundreds of old canoes for sale for one to four hundred dollars in either aluminum or fiberglass or plastic-synthetic and different sizes, 14-18'. Buying a used canoe is definately a buyers market now, probably because everyone is buying just kayaks, or something? __________________ ... down and out, liv'n that Walmart side of the lake!