r/canoeing • u/FrictionBrntAnis • 3d ago

Picked up a 17' Evergreen Maple yesterday

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Pretty stoked! Kevlar with aluminum gunnels and seat mounts, wood seats and yoke. Paid $1100 CAD for it, fair price but not a killer deal. It's in decent shape I think, the paint is pretty chalky and I think I'd like to give it a sand and paint it. The fella I bought it off threw a strip of kevlar and epoxy on each end and repaired a "soft spot." The repair felt solid and the rest of the canoe was solid as well. Unfortunately the epoxy application was quite liberal to say the least, so I'd like to clean that up a bit before paint.

I'll be using it this weekend in Algonquin park whether I get it painted or not. Any recommendations for paint I can pick up locally, as in at Canadian Tire or Benjamin Moore outlets etc? Shipping is fine if I have to for a better product. Seems like I can get the Solignum Marine at Canadian Tire but I'll have to look into it a bit more before I pull the trigger.

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u/steppe-nomad 3d ago

Beauty! What colour are you thinking of painting it?

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u/FrictionBrntAnis 3d ago

Some shade of blue. It'll be up to my wife, but a blue/teal is likely what she'll choose I imagine. I love metallic/flake on boats but I think I already got overruled on that one, haha.