Since its been a great many years since I've gone out my first concern was whether I could even load the canoe on a vehicle by myself. The rear seat was missing and has been replaced with some salvaged aluminum and a piece of 1/2 inch plywood cut to fit and linseed oiled every so often. I sort of wish I hadn't done that now, but for the most part the paint has held up. Although a Grumman canoe's most distinctive feature is its shiny aluminum hull I had decided when I first got it that I would paint it to cover the numerous patches and give it a sort of uniform appearance. I've been itching to get back out there and recently cleaned it up and started gathering my gear. I used to take it out a lot back then but its been a long time since its seen water. He had acquired a bunch of old Grumman canoes from a boy scout camp which were riddled with holes and being replaced, and he had done a decent job of patching them with riveted aluminum and fiberglass patch. I bought a canoe of my own back in the early 90s from a friend of a friend. Once when we were horsing around on Emerald Lake in Vermont we flipped his canoe and the car keys fell out of his pocket which would have been a horrible mess had they not been found again after a few dives in the crystal clear water. As a kid my dad used to take us out in rental canoes when we were camping in Vermont or upstate New York.
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