JG,Originally Posted by white43
I was already thinking along those lines. I was going to let him try my 17' canoe with the Spring Creek Seat Yoke.
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Being from MN you might have seen one of these gadjets. It replaces the center thwart and functions as a yoke in the position shown or flips over to become a seat as shown with the rowing kit. When I used it for fishing, I actually did not flip it over to the "seat" position. The extra height helped, I think.
At a little over 80 pounds (fiberglass) that canoe was a handful to load and unload myself. So I got a kevlar UL solo that weighs 35# for when I go solo.