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I have a kayak for sale.

" Want a kayak that is stable, fast, tracks well and is very light for its size ?
My Hurricane Phoenix 140 for sale. 14’, 28” beam, weighs just 55 lbs. 325 lb. capacity
(Length contributes to speed and better tracking.) Not to be found at “big box” stores. Original owner, Purchased new at The Dinghy Shop in Amityville. Always garaged when not out on the bay.
Rigged for fishing with two flush mount rear of seat rod holders, Harken anchor trolley, ‘Scotty’ mount, all installed by The Dinghy Shop.
Worn seat has zippered pockets, and two additional rod or safety flag holders. Large bow hatch and cover, large rear well with smaller hatch above for cell, keys, etc.
Yellow for extreme visibility on the bay.
Extremely light weight for its size, the trylon or thermofoam ABS is at least 10 lbs lighter than other 14’ boats made of other plastics. Trylon does not fade in the sun and remains bright.
Get it before its gone ! All you need is a paddle and a PFD. And get your own darn flag !! $400. [email protected]
Hurricane Phoenix 140 - Kayak - Lancaster County Marine, Inc.

Everyone always asks a seller, "why are you selling this "magnificent specimen of capitalism, this beautiful boat, this absolute piece of garbage, yada yada yada."
This past summer I was considering getting a new seat but when researching stuff, my better half seated herself next to me on her PC to research her next trip with her sister to Disneyworld. (they are Mickey freaks.) I complained about prices and probably feeling guilty, she said "why don't you just get a new one?" Well twist my arm and don't ask me twice !!
I have had a lot of shoulder trouble these past two years, although I have been able (inexplicably) to paddle and swim. (but I thought I was going to cry a year ago when loading an 8 pointer into my pickup bed.) I tried acupuncture last spring with some relief, but am going to go the orthopedic route in a couple of weeks.
Anyway, even though my Hurricane Phoenix 140 is way lighter than the polypropylene things in the big box stores, coming in at just 55 lbs, talking to Lydia at Hurricane Kayaks in North Carolina I decided I would order a Skimmer 128, although I may lose some speed and tracking. Unless you go 3 or 4 grand for kevlar, Hurricane makes their kayaks out of a light plastic that is still quite durable, albeit more expensive than the West Marine or Dick's stuff. Since I "cartop", lifting and carrying for me, at age 67 plus, with 160 lbs on a 5'8" frame, isn't getting any easier. The Skimmer is even lighter than the Phoenix.
 

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pequa1 said:
I have a kayak for sale.

" Want a kayak that is stable, fast, tracks well and is very light for its size ?
My Hurricane Phoenix 140 for sale. 14’, 28” beam, weighs just 55 lbs. 325 lb. capacity
(Length contributes to speed and better tracking.) Not to be found at “big box” stores. Original owner, Purchased new at The Dinghy Shop in Amityville. Always garaged when not out on the bay.
Rigged for fishing with two flush mount rear of seat rod holders, Harken anchor trolley, ‘Scotty’ mount, all installed by The Dinghy Shop.
Worn seat has zippered pockets, and two additional rod or safety flag holders. Large bow hatch and cover, large rear well with smaller hatch above for cell, keys, etc.
Yellow for extreme visibility on the bay.
Extremely light weight for its size, the trylon or thermofoam ABS is at least 10 lbs lighter than other 14’ boats made of other plastics. Trylon does not fade in the sun and remains bright.
Get it before its gone ! All you need is a paddle and a PFD. And get your own darn flag !! $400. [email protected]
Hurricane Phoenix 140 - Kayak - Lancaster County Marine, Inc.

Everyone always asks a seller, "why are you selling this "magnificent specimen of capitalism, this beautiful boat, this absolute piece of garbage, yada yada yada."
This past summer I was considering getting a new seat but when researching stuff, my better half seated herself next to me on her PC to research her next trip with her sister to Disneyworld. (they are Mickey freaks.) I complained about prices and probably feeling guilty, she said "why don't you just get a new one?" Well twist my arm and don't ask me twice !!
I have had a lot of shoulder trouble these past two years, although I have been able (inexplicably) to paddle and swim. (but I thought I was going to cry a year ago when loading an 8 pointer into my pickup bed.) I tried acupuncture last spring with some relief, but am going to go the orthopedic route in a couple of weeks.
Anyway, even though my Hurricane Phoenix 140 is way lighter than the polypropylene things in the big box stores, coming in at just 55 lbs, talking to Lydia at Hurricane Kayaks in North Carolina I decided I would order a Skimmer 128, although I may lose some speed and tracking. Unless you go 3 or 4 grand for kevlar, Hurricane makes their kayaks out of a light plastic that is still quite durable, albeit more expensive than the West Marine or Dick's stuff. Since I "cartop", lifting and carrying for me, at age 67 plus, with 160 lbs on a 5'8" frame, isn't getting any easier. The Skimmer is even lighter than the Phoenix.
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I used to use a canoe in the Nissequogue. I also put it on top of the SUV. Became a pain because I had a lot of stuff on this canoe that I would have to load into the SUV - take it out & put it in the canoe to go out Come back - take it all out of the canoe & then lift the canoe onto the roof.

When I say a lot of stuff I had:
  • the trolling motor
  • the trolling motor battery
  • pontoons that spread out 4 feet on either side of the canoe (couldn't get the canoe onto the roof without removing them) that allowed me to get up & walk around the canoe without tipping it.
  • 3 small portable batteries for the depth finder, bow & stern lights
  • anchors
  • + all of my related gear (rods, bait, coolers, lures, etc
This stuff would have to be removed & put back in at least twice.

Finally bought a small trailer that allowed me to leave all of this stuff & gear in the canoe. Made things a lot easier. And I stopped scratching up the SUV at belt bucket level.

As I recall - didn't cost a lot of money. $300 to 400??
 
I sold my Portabote to Smithtown Joe. I should probably put my canoe up for sale as well. I just kayak and haven't used my canoe in a decade.
 
Lost my lengthy reply to you when the site hiccuped this morning. When I had the portabote I had a Chevy Cavalier wagon and went through the same loading and unloading you did with the canoe. A couple of years after I put a new 4hp Merc on it I bought my present boat, a Sea Pro DC180, and never used the Portabote again and eventually sold it to Joe. A half dozen years after that I bought the kayak. Prices have of course gone up. The Hurricane Phoenix 140 kayak was about a grand a dozen years ago, and its equivalent now well over $1300. (due to its light weight, but you can get a big box and heavy yak for less.) (Funny thing is I bought our tandem Perception Tribe 13.5 at The Dinghy Shop in Amityville for the same price West Marine was selling it for, proving that the big box stores not only have children as "experts" on the floor but also that their prices aren't any better. Maybe The Dinghy Shop does well by sales quantity. At first I launched the yak with a Dodge Caravan, using a truck bed extender out of the boat hitch. Since 2010 I carry it on the TrakRak of my Ranger. The shorter Hurricane Skimmer 128 I purchased is ten pounds lighter and with my deteriorating shoulder should make launching easy again.
 
pequa1 said:
I sold my Portabote to Smithtown Joe. I should probably put my canoe up for sale as well. I just kayak and haven't used my canoe in a decade.
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so that's where he got that from......................................

Did some decent fishing on that thing in the River.
 
yup, that was me. and that's why the tale of you getting towed under by Joe tickled me so. I saved the whole bit, but it was your writing that was worthy of a Readers Digest "humor while fishing" tale !
 
Here ??? Some of your old Nissequogue reports belong in Readers Digest ! I would be concerned that someone would plagiarize and sell them ! I copied two others of yours that are also classics !
 
Something of a late report & follow up to SmithtownJoe’s report of the same night (see link below)..................
http://www.noreast.com/postedreport...e_ID=0&startRecord=101&orderby=date&daysold=7

Hit the river Friday night with Jeepman. SMJ & Sticks.

Suggested to Sticks that he only bring on what he really needed in the interest of preserving some room.
Had added a pouch to the gunwale up by the bow for this.

“Nah. It's just my backpack tackle thing & the bucket of crabs & cooler.”
Bet he was sorry by the end of the night.............

Decided to try a “picket approach” to the fishing tonight. Sticks & I in the canoe. JM & SMJ in SMJ’s portaboat.
Figured we spread out across the river in picket formation & drop our eels down in the back of the river in “The Narrows" . An area where during low water the river (alright – can you guess?) “narrows” & 3 channels meet. The thought was any bass coming through the narrow end of the river where we decided to make our stand couldn’t help but swim past our dangling eels.

It was gonna be a slaughter.
Yeah. Right!!

So out we went.
Out went our eels.

Shortly thereafter out went our enthusiasm for this particular location as nothing was happening.
No signs of bait, fish or the occasional crab that is bold enough to grab onto a swimming eel.

Good conversations, that while enjoyed, was not what we came out for.
After about an hour:

“Wanna try somewhere else?” (Sticks)
“Sure.” (wader)
“Hey Joe (SMJ) what do say we try a different location?” (wader)

fyi – I kind of like referring to myself in the 3rd person

“Sure. Front or back?” (SMJ)
“Either’s fine by me.” (wader)
“Let’s go up front. You know – by Bass Cove” (Sticks meaning behind Short Beach)
“OK. Meet you up there.” (SMJ)

Jeepman who has always been media shy & is rumored to have an inexplicable fear of quotation marks – remained quiet. Personally I think we may have been scaring him. After tonight – he may decline further offers to fish with us.

Off putters SMJ & Jeepman.
Sticks & I follow in the Minnow trolling an eel.

We soon lose sight of SMJ & JM as my trolling motor strains against the incoming current. While I can get there – it’s gonna be slow going.

“This is gonna take awhile.” (wader)
“Let’s have SMJ tow us.” (Sticks)
“Yeah?” (wader)
“Why not? It’ll get us there a lot faster & then you can use the incoming to troll on back.” (Sticks)
“OK – give him a call.” (wader)

So Sticks gets a hold of SMJ on the walkie talkie.
Hell yeah. Walkie Talkie.
We were prepared!
(y)

Back comes SMJ & JM.
We toss my anchor line into SMJ’s craft. He ties it off onto a cleat on his transom & off we go.

Water nice & calm.
Expectations rising for our newly designated picket area.

Beautiful night – breeze that was plaguing us earlier has dropped off.
About half way there.
Middle of the river approaching the channel marker.
It’s going to be a good night – we can feel it.

“LAST ONE IN THE WATER IS A ROTTEN EGG!!!!”

Now we still are a bit unclear as to what happened next.
Did SMJ pick up the rate of travel thereby raising the bow & lowering the stern of the canoe?
Did a "Scout Fish" perhaps tug on the stern of the canoe? (anyone remember "Scout Fish"?)

Looking down I am all of a sudden perplexed to see what appeared to be “sea foam” gathering around my hip waders instantly followed by the eel rag floating past.

As I realize what’s happening & stand up the entire stern of the canoe goes under.

"Slow down!” (Sticks yelling to SMJ)
“Huh?” (SMJ)
“We’re taking on water.” (Sticks)
“Huh?” (SMJ)
“Water my A$$ - we’re sinking!!” (wader)
“Huh?” (SMJ)

With those words Sticks goes overboard.
Myself?

For some bizarre reason I get the thought:
“If I climb toward the bow maybe my counter weight will pull the stern up?”
I’m positive I’ve seen this done somewhere.

Rapidly the canoe decides to reenact that scene in Titanic where the ship is sticking straight up at a 90 degree angle – I soon abandon this idea & join Sticks in the water.

“wader. You ok?” (Sticks – holding onto SMJ’s boat))
“Yeah. Cold but ok.” (wader)

Current is now swinging the canoe around SMJ’s boat as it’s still tied to the cleat.
I try to swim/kick my way towards SMJ’s boat. Legs feel like lead as my hip waders have filled with water.

“It’s ok – you can reach bottom. It’s only about 5 feet deep here.” (Sticks)
Put my legs down. Bottom. I “tippy toe” over to the Weekend Warrior.

I look around still in the water – kind of surreal.
My stern light – while completely under water is still on.
“...........that guy was right about it being watertight - glad I spent a little extra on it”

Fishing rod in its holder is sticking up out of the water looking very much like a periscope I believe I have seen some scout fish using in the past. Eel on it is free swimming inside the water filled canoe.
Anything not bolted down is now floating around us.

Dangling in this ever widening “debris field” – up to my chin in 50 to 60 degree water - one thought & one thought only comes to me.
“Well – this $UCK$!!”

All of a sudden- POP!
The lid of my cooler which happened to be floating near my head at the moment popped open & sank to the bottom. Four beers inside heading for its watery grave. Could have used one of them when/if I ever get back to shore.

“Think you can get in here?” (SMJ)
“Don’t know – maybe by the stern.” (Sticks)
“Yeah – don’t want to capsize you coming over the side.” (wader)
Jeepman – still trapped by his fear of quotation marks – remains silent.

First try – no good.
Too much water in my waders weighing me down.

Current getting a little stronger now.

Second try...
I come over the side like an exhausted cod minus the flapping around.
I move over to make room for Sticks.
He makes in on his first try.

“You guys ok?” (SMJ)
“Yeah. Just Cold.” (Sticks – whose teeth are beginning to send out Morse Code by this time)

Slowly we head back towards shore towing the Minnow which is now resembling its name albeit a dead minnow.

Still a surreal scene – stern underwater – stern light shining brightly from below the surface illuminating that ell still attached to my rod.
I think the eel was laughing.....

Trolling motor & battery fully submerged. Wonder if I’ll get them back to working?

Had to hold the anchor line towing the canoe to take the pressure off of the Weekend Warrior. Was afraid that the extra weight from the water flooded canoe might prove to be too much for SMJ’s transom.
Didn’t need two boats going down tonight.

Finally we make it to shore – as two of my fingers go numb from holding the towing rope – circulation cut off I guess. We pull the canoe onto the beach & try to assess what was lost.

My Cooler with its store of goodies.
My Fish Net
Cell Phone that was in my pocket
Half of my bait bucket – the inner bucket was clamped to a cleat
Cup holder (darn)
Assorted lures, bait knife that came out of the pouch they were in (pouch suctioned cupped to the gunwale)
My radio which also free floated out of another pouch.

If the trolling motor & battery are still ok – other then the phone - it isn’t too bad.
Glad I have most things tied off onto cleats.

Sticks’ losses where total – only managed to save his rod.

Hindsight tells me we had too much weight in the stern.
Battery (30 pounds)
Trolling Motor
Me
Sticks (sitting on the middle bench)

NOTE TO SELF ? if the thought of having yourself towed to another location in the river occurs to you – balance the weight load first.

Sticks was beginning to look like a jack hammer in action.
“Head home & take a hot shower.” (SMJ)
“OK. You guys alright if I leave?” (Sticks)
“Yeah – go ahead.” (wader)

While Jeepman & myself loaded what was left into the canoe - after dumping the river out - & placed her on the trailer for the ride home SMJ went out in search of the debris field to see if he could recover some of what the river took.
Alas – the river claimed it all.

So what did we learn tonight?
When being towed in a canoe in search of a potentially better fishing ground – EVEN OUT THE WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION.

Small cooler with 4 beers - $10
Net - $20
Cell Phone - $100
Bait Bucket - $12
Cup holder - .50
Perfect Size Transistor Radio - $30
Assorted Tackle - $40

Learning to balance out the weight distribution while being towed?
Priceless................

OH?
When I got home?

“Why are you all wet?” (wife)
“Raining”
© lgfrey
November 5, 2005
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"I would be concerned that someone would plagiarize and sell them !"

maybe the little copyright doohickey thing might discourage that?
 
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