Wondering if this damage makes the canoe unbuyable.

Old Town Camper made with Royalex for a good price that I am considering.

If it is repairable, what am I looking at for this job?

Thanks

Had to share with you all because I am so excited to get my old town outfitted!! Cedaria Innovations has been incredible already, the order was super simple, shipped quick, and looks great. More to come on the maiden voyage!!

I will be putting a strap around the damaged area to keep it from bowing out during transport, tying it down with two cam straps to my roof cross-bars and rope in the front and the back as well. Attempting to transport this 700 miles to save it from being scrapped…

Ran a stretch of the North Branch of the Chicago River from Gompers Park down to River Park. It's an wild urban paddle and the water up here is shallow. After the old dam at River Park was removed back in 2018, this stretch went to riffles and gravel bars, so between the low water and a fully loaded boat I was scraping bottom and picking lines the whole way down.

The extra wrinkle: I don't own a car, so my ebike was in the canoe with me for the paddle (I use it to haul the boat to the put-in, then it rides back in the hull). Roughly 40 lbs of bike sitting low and center definitely didn't help in the skinny water.

The days are melting together now. Camp, paddle, portage, repeat — no particular order anymore, just the loop. Every day is dedicated to moving forward.
Montreal, the end goal, pulls like a magnet. The closer I get, the stronger the pull.
I've crossed into my fourth province. The prairies nearly killed me. The river is reviving me.
Bugs, wind, rain, sun — that's just the game now.
Still two days out from Kenora. Then I have to navigate the 35th largest lake in the world. Over 14,000 islands.

Hey guys. Got the ascend canoe trolling motor mount for my coleman ramx. Seems like the gunwale isn’t wide enough to really secure these clamps. I’m looking into adding some type of clamp through the precut raceway to clamp to the outside of the canoe at least on one side, if not both for extra support. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance!! Mount if you need to see how the clamps work: https://www.cabelas.com/p/ascend-canoe-motor-mounting-bracket?searchTerm=3529071

Community members from across Michigan gathered in St. Ignace for a three-day workshop to build a birch bark canoe.