Anyone know what model mad river this is? Seller only knows that it’s 16’ and fiberglass

Crappy photo, I’ll try it again

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

Find out the HIN. Then Mad River will be able to tell you.

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.

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

If it is definitely 16’ then it is clearly an explorer hull.

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.

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.....

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.