Topic: Old Town Pack Canoe — Adventure Canoe

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September 15, 2009 at 7:43 pm #33032
Hueyav8r	This summer I won an Old Town Pack Angler from the web site paddling.net The timing could not have been better. I was shopping for a solo canoe. My canoe partner (my youngest daughter) is not as interested in paddling with me. I checked out the Pack at a local Gander Mountain a few years prior. I wanted one ever since. The canoe is only 32 pounds, it is made of Royalax. This is a great plus since I am getting older and my back doesn’t like the heavier canoes and kayaks. I have to admit in the past I only paddled with a partner so learning to paddle solo was something new. Once I got the knack the canoe handled wonderful, very nimble. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hueyav8r/3924714008/ http://www.oldtowncanoe.com/canoes/huntingFishing/pack_ang.html
September 15, 2009 at 11:38 pm #33033
Dennis	Nice… Do you ever take it off any sweet jumps? Oh wait, that’s a line from a movie I like. That is a great looking boat.
September 16, 2009 at 5:18 am #33034
crow	I bought an Old Town Pack this summer as well. As you say, very nimble and extemely light. Goes on top of the car with minimal effort and no help required. Lovely little boat for solo trips, though I do find it goes much faster with a double bladed paddle. Winning a canoe like that is excellent luck. How do you find the Angler version as opposed to the basic one? Are the extra features useful? ATB, Gordon
September 17, 2009 at 4:32 pm #33035
James	That does look like a great little canoe. I know that I just bough the Prospector but for some reason I feel like I need one of these too. Damn here we go…this was supposed to be a cheap hobby.
September 17, 2009 at 5:38 pm #33036
Dennis	There are no cheap hobbies.
September 23, 2009 at 8:15 pm #33037
Hueyav8r	The angler version was the one Old Town donated. It comes with an upgraded seat (one with a back), a nylon work/storage area that hooks in front of the seat (good to hold tackle, lunch, etc..), fishing rod holder and a hook up for a small anchor in the front. When I check out their web site there is about a $150 difference in cost for the angler version. I am not much of a fisherman but I am in search of serenity and I may pick it back up. When I told my wife I won a canoe the first thing she said,”are you going to sell it”. I had to refrain from responding the way I wanted. I just said “no, I want to start paddling solo”. My other canoe is an inexpensive starter canoe.
September 24, 2009 at 6:17 pm #33038
Dennis	I happened to see one of these the other night at Cabella’s. I had never been to a Cabella’s before so that was a pretty interesting experience to begin with. They had some canoes outside on a rack that looked like it was shoved off a flatbed truck that was still moving. All the boats were stoved in where they rested upright on the metal rack. The bow of the Old Town had a big dent in the front of it. It was sort of a tubby looking little thing to begin with and now it looked like a fat schoolboy that bullys had been teasing and finally ended up beating the crap out of it for being so goofy.
September 27, 2009 at 4:18 pm #33039
crow	That sounds great. I’ve just come back from a trip on the Caledonian Canal, Lochy Lochy and Loch Oich on my OT Pack. Although Loch Lochy was very stormy, with 2 metre waves and 40 mph winds, it performed very well. It was a bit low in the water with all my camping gear and food etc. so from time to time it shipped some water with waves hitting sideways. But mostly it surfed along quite nicely, and was faster than the bigger canoes in our group.
November 9, 2009 at 8:53 am #33040
oldtownfan	The pack is a great boat, I have had mine for almost 20 years. It has crossed Fishing Bay on Chesapeake Bay, floated the Congaree in South Carolina, been in numerous streams so narrow that you could span them with a paddle. Even got hit by a ski boat on the Elk River in Maryland. It is all scratched up but keeps on trucking. Has been great for fishing and multiday camping trips as well (can you tell that I love this boat…?:). Great for wildlife photograpy as well because it is very stable. I also agree with Gordon, get a single bladed paddle for confined spaces and a double-bladed one for speed on open water. Rob
November 11, 2009 at 5:41 am #33041
crow	Had my Pack out on a river trip last weekend. Got a few new scratches but she did well. She was gliding over rocks where other boats were getting stuck. Shot a few rapids, some backwards. Most folk were in bigger boats, but the Pack did fine.
November 11, 2009 at 9:49 am #33042
MotoMike	crow – 1 month ago » and was faster than the bigger canoes in our group. Probably owed to your huge biceps