Anyone familiar with these canoes? There's one on CL today. Looks like a decent boat for the time (1970's). Not interested, just curious.

Kevlar Canoe

It does look like it might move through the water nicely with those fine ends but if you look at the pic with the label that shows the capacity it appears to be a chopper gun fiberglass boat. The plastic seats and lack of carrying yoke also suggest a low cost boat.

Sure looks like a basic fiberglass boat...

The only thing that boat has in common with a kevlar boat is they are both yellow. Vega fiberglass canoes were built by the Moore family in Indianapolis, Indiana and most were designed by the late Howie LaBrant. They later changed the company name to Moore Canoes and somewhere around 1975 the factory had a fire and the company went out of business. Modern solo canoe designer/builder Pat Moore is the son of the people who ran Moore Canoes/Vega. Moore stopped building canoes in 2001 the boat pictured is a 1974 model it might be the Peter Pond model which was eventually reproduced by Mad River.

Maybe they put too many zeros on the ad.

nctry: "Maybe they put too many zeros on the ad."

Yeah, there's no way it's worth $900.

nooneuno:"the boat pictured is a 1974 model it might be the Peter Pond model which was eventually reproduced by Mad River."

My son's Scout troop owns several canoes, including a Mad River Peter Pond. It's a decent boat with an unknown history before the Troop acquired it.

nooneuno: "The only thing that boat has in common with a kevlar boat is they are both yellow. Vega fiberglass canoes were built by the Moore family in Indianapolis, Indiana and most were designed by the late Howie LaBrant. They later changed the company name to Moore Canoes and somewhere around 1975 the factory had a fire and the company went out of business. Modern solo canoe designer/builder Pat Moore is the son of the people who ran Moore Canoes/Vega. Moore stopped building canoes in 2001 the boat pictured is a 1974 model it might be the Peter Pond model which was eventually reproduced by Mad River."

Thank you for the education. I really enjoyed reading your response. The history of sport canoes seems to be slipping away even while some of the legendary people are still alive.