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![]() Use your canoe or kayak and it will demand care. A lot of Type I canoe repairs consist of routine maintenance you can do yourself, like applying 303 Aerospace Protectant to guard against UV damage, and making sure wood gunwales receive a generous coat of WATCO penetrating oil at least once every paddling season. Applying Kevlar skid plates represents the most common Type I canoe repair at our |
![]() Neglect your canoe or kayak and you may be looking at more significant Type II canoe repairs. Storing a Royalex canoe under the summer sun, then leaving it outdoors through the bitter-cold of winter increases the chances of cold cracking. Cold cracks show up as hull splits extending away from gunwale screws. Neglect the wood trim on your canoe and cane seats blow out prematurely, dry rot takes hold of end decks and gunwales. Gunwales are more than pretty trim; they provide structural integrity, canoe bones. Repairing cold cracks and replacing wood trim is our forte at NorthWest Canoe. |
![]() Disaster happens. You wouldn't believe some of the train wrecks that come through our shop door... a canoe pinned against the back wall of the garage by a runaway SUV, all sorts of boats that have levitated off the roofs of vehicles on the interstate, tree limbs, river rocks, hail stones and wind storms all play parts in the disasters. Fact is everyone draws a black-luck day now and then. The type III canoe repair looks like it bounced down the double black at Mary Jane. When your hull is broken and twisted and you wonder whether it's worth repairing, call us. You can most likely paddle that boat again. |
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Like skier types and trail classification systems, repairing canoes and kayaks has its green circles, blue squares and black diamonds.
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Time for Kevlar Skid Plates? Bring your canoe to our
Lay the dry felts on the canoe and trace the outline. Position your skid plates eight-to-ten-inches below the gunwale (you want the felt to end a couple inches above the waterline). Remove the felts. Mask the prepped area to catch inevitable drips. Sand, then clean with acetone. Wetted-outfelts will gain about 10% in size. |
How to Install Wood Gunwales Start your gunwale replacement project by visiting or calling NorthWest Canoe. We stock full length gunwales from Bell, Mad River and Old Town, plus hard to find stainless hardware. If you're not within driving distance, consider the ash Knockdown Gunwale kit.
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