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MiPatrick
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Anyone know what model mad river this is? Seller only knows that it’s 16’ and fiberglass
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MiPatrick
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Crappy photo, I’ll try it again 
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Swampturtle
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The smoking rabbit keeps popping up on here. Maybe it's a Mad River duck hunter or Explorer Kevlar. So many people have been asking..so I found the production run info on their website. The serial number would have the date it was made & the style. Hmm..now that I look at it, it's sand colored & not green as the base.
Mad River Production Run History
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Bannock
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Find out the HIN. Then Mad River will be able to tell you.
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ozarkpaddler
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Sure looks like an Explorer to me with the depth and fullness? They made it in 'glass, kevlar, and royalex. A few of the outfitters on the Gunflint had kevlar models for rent a few decades back.
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mirth
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cowdoc: "Bannock: "Find out the HIN. Then Mad River will be able to tell you."
I may be mistaken, but I think somewhere during the transition between old and new MR canoe owners, that info was lost. Hull ID's don't go back very far. If it's a newer model year, you may get lucky. "
As of a couple years ago there was someone still with the company who was the "guru" of all older MR hulls. I contacted them a while back to identify a boat that my Scout troop owns and it took a few days but ultimately they told me it was a Peter Pond, only made a couple years in the early/mid 80s.
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ozarkpaddler
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Moonpath: "I have both an explorer and revelation duck hunter. I will suggest it is an early version of the revelation duck hunter (17) given its camouflage color. Later duck hunters (mine from 1993) is an olive green. I think this canoe has a royalex hull and is not Kevlar. My MR canoes have been very good craft over the years and have provided a lot of service. They were well built. JerryG"
Actually, I remember Mad River made a few composite hulls in camo in the late '80's. I recall seeing the Winooski and the Missiquois (sp?) in camo. If I'm not mistaken, they even had an aqua-bluish colored camo in the catalogs for a year or two? Never saw a boat in that color, though. The Duck Hunter 16 was still an Explorer, just different color. I wish I had those old catalogs (LOL)!
I graduated with my BSN in Nursing in 1987 and I had MEMORIZED the 1987 catalog; I was going to "Treat" myself to a Mad River Canoe. I was going to get a 16' Explorer or a Winooski, I couldn't make a decision. Alas, my wife talked me into spending less money and I ended up buying a big aluminum 17' Lowe canoe we called "The pig." That started my decades long quest to find the "Perfect canoe" (LOL)! If I had just bought that Mad River way back then.....
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Moonpath
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I have both an explorer and revelation duck hunter. I will suggest it is an early version of the revelation duck hunter (17) given its camouflage color. Later duck hunters (mine from 1993) is an olive green. I think this canoe has a royalex hull and is not Kevlar. My MR canoes have been very good craft over the years and have provided a lot of service. They were well built. JerryG
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Moonpath
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If it is definitely 16’ then it is clearly an explorer hull.
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cowdoc
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Bannock: "Find out the HIN. Then Mad River will be able to tell you."
I may be mistaken, but I think somewhere during the transition between old and new MR canoe owners, that info was lost. Hull ID's don't go back very far. If it's a newer model year, you may get lucky.
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