Kerr Canoes
With a lifetime of woodworking experience at hand, Mark Kerr is ready to build the canoe of your dreams. Mark builds each canoe by hand, one at a time, reflecting the finest craftsmanship available, sure to please the most discriminating canoeist.
Cedar strip/epoxy construction is among the strongest building systems in use today. Built to last, built with incredible strength, and best of all built to use. Additional strengthening and protection for certain areas of the canoes can be done to help increase abrasion resistance.
Quality, personal service is commonly associated within a small business. Kerr Canoe stands behind the professional craftsmanship that's dedicated to the product. Very little maintenance is required on a Kerr Canoe. In some cases, with substantial use, a complete revarnishing may be needed. This service costs about $200 for the original owner. Mark can also repair your Kerr Canoe very reasonably, if necessary, with original materials.
If you would like your next canoe to be entirely built by a true craftsman, something to be used and treasured for generations, Kerr Canoe would like the opportunity to build the canoe of your dreams.
Chestnut Prospector
This "workhorse of the North" was designed in Canada to meet the specific needs of the prospector - good maneuverability through whitewater and wilderness, with capacity to carry substantial loads. The Prospector features a flattened, shallow arch hull with it's fullness carried into the bow and stern, increased depth amidships to maintain freeboard, and deepened ends to keep paddlers and gear dry. The rockered keel-line makes it very maneuverable in whitewater. This is the favored canoe of Bill Mason, Canada's premier paddler: "It is amazing that such a large-volumed tripping canoe can also be so beautiful to paddle solo in the leaned position - canoe ballet, as I call it. It is the ideal all-around canoe." - from Canoecraft by Ted Moores & Merilyn Mohr.
Specifications:
Length - 16'
Width - 34"
Weight - approx. 58-62#
Price - $2,656
E. M. White
The E. M. White "Guide" canoe was developed over 100 years ago to preserve the traditional designs of Indian birch canoes as used on the Penobscot River in Maine. This canoe is the "closest thing to an all-around canoe that is beautiful to look at as well as functional", according to Gil Gilpatrick in Building a Strip Canoe. The E. M. White design is broad and deep and very stable with or without a heavy cargo. This is the canoe my wife and I take each year on our week long trip around the Keeweenaw peninsula in Lake Superior. It is an excellent choice for big water when a lot of gear will be taken. It is a very comfortable canoe to paddle for days at a time on extended trips.
Specifications:
Length - 18'6"
Width - 34"
Weight - approx. 70-72#
Price - $2,656
Redbird
This Bear Mountain design is an efficient wilderness canoe that has proved exceptionally seaworthy, even in the heavy seas around the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St, Lawrence. Its keelless shallow-arched hull with moderate rocker combines with a long water line and fine entry to make it a fast responsive boat. The bow and stern profile are reminiscent of the Long Nose Ojibwa Rice Harvesting canoe. The sides are moderate tumble home for improved lateral strength and allow outwales wide enough to turn aside waves and spray. As one delighted owner reported, this boat is very "sweet in the water - an excellent touring and tripping canoe." - from Canoecraft, by Ted Moores and Merilyn Mohr.
Specifications:
Length - 17'6"
Width - 33"
Weight - approx. 52-56#
Price - $2,541
Hiawatha
This Bear Mountain design has a look that is as traditional as its name, its sheer-line and bow profile harking back to conform to the most up-to-date concepts in paddling efficiency. The hull is a shallow arch with a moderately flat keel-line that flows into a shallow vee to become a fine deep vee at the bow for directional stability, speed and maneuverability. The vee is carried as far back as possible so that it acts like a keel for tracking. As a general purpose or light tripping canoe, it was designed in the tradition of contemporary American cruisers, achieving its optimum waterline shape when paddled level, not keeled over. - from Canoecraft, by Ted Moores & Merilyn Mohr.
Specifications:
Length - 15'
Width - 34"
Weight - approx. 48-50#
Price - $2,310
Cosine Wherry - The ultimate rowboat
"The Cosine Wherry is a strong, lightweight, beautiful, high performance 14-foot rowing boat, the newest design by John Hartsock of Emonds, Washington. Combining years of rowing experience with his knowledge of computerized hull designs, Mr. Hartsock has created a single rowboat to satisfy the various recreational requirements of a family, the practical demands of the sportsman, and the competitive desires of the serious rower. The Cosine Wherry offers the best of both worlds: it's light, fast, and a joy to row, yet stable, and capable of hauling plenty of passengers and gear. We predict you'll rediscover, or discover for the first time, the profound pleasure of rowing with a Cosine Wherry." - Rip, Strip, & Row! by J.D. Brown.
Specifications:
Length - 14'
Width - 52"
Depth - 17"
Weight - approx. 115#
Price - $4,500
Sea Kayaks
Panache
Specifications:
Length - 18'3"
Width - 22"
Cockpit combing 33" x 16"
Weight - approx. 40#
Price - $4,100
Georgian Bay
Specifications:
Length - 16' 4"
Width - 24"
Cockpit combing - 33" x 18"
Weight - approx. 38#
Price - $3,800
Paddles & Oars
Paddles
Price - $120/ea.
Oars
Price - $310/pr.
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