Has anyone ever had a yoke break on them and how did you fix it?

Field fix or shop repair?

dd

Had a Piragis rental that had a toilet seat style yoke pad. The yoke broke, through no fault of the person carrying the canoe. The yoke was new, though thin in the center, and the toilet seat pad was poorly designed and had a bolt through right in the center. It was bound to happen.
Fixed it by tying and duct taping a curved piece of beaver wood in behind the pad. Piragis was impressed with the repair, though we weren't impressed with the crappy yoke and pad.

Paging Merganser

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kiporby too

plywood isnt as pretty as solid wood but...it aint going to break.

Field fix is what I was thinking of. I had the yoke break on a Three man canoe at the beginning of a 220 rd portage, the dam thing snapped right in half. Fixed it with my fishing rod holder, (special design rod holder).

Does Merganser have a special story to tell about broken yokes??


kanoes - I like the plywood idea.

in a recent trip report posted by kiporby he explains and shows pictures how he repaired a broken yoke on a trip with his daughter. it's the one where they entered at either Cross Bay or Missing Link.

edit here's the trip report he did one repair to get through the portage and to campsite and then redid the repair once at camp

quote kanoes: " but...it aint going to break."

Same could be said for Aluminum I-beams ;)

Had a yoke break on Q trip last July. One of the metal tabs that attach the yoke to the boat snapped due to "fatigue" (it was twenty some years old).

My fix was to increase the height of my pack (by cinching it down and expanding the collar), tie the wooden yoke to the pack and rest the canoe on the yoke. Not a great fix, but it got me across the mile long portage between Poacher and Basswood.

I had the seat come out of my Prism up on Kawnipi a couple of years ago and I was using a pedestal yoke ... no seat/no place to mount the yoke ... same problem.

Unfortunately, being a solo canoe, the distance between thwarts was too long to use my paddles for portaging "rails" so I went into the woods and found a couple of smallish dead alders (I think it was). Luckily I had a saw and larger knife with me so I could cut to length and smooth out the poles/rails I constructed. I firmly lashed them to the thwart in front and loosely lashed them to the rear thwart so they could be somewhat easily spread apart. I continued north on this trip since my ultimate destination was McKenzie Lake, before reversing my course and heading back to Prairie Portage.

I found the rails a reasonably comfortable way to carry the canoe and it provided very nice grab positions for controlling the canoe on portages. BTW: I sat on a pack (for my seat) for the remainder of the trip ... that wasn't overly comfortable, by comparison.

dd

quote fishfry: "kanoes - I like the plywood idea."

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quote kanoes: " but...it aint going to break."

Same could be said for Aluminum I-beams ;)"

But they look right on cedar strip.

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quote fishfry: "kanoes - I like the plywood idea."

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Fancy looking yoke, could you show your pads and how you have yoke fastened to canoe?

previous version with different plywood.

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Nice, thanks kanoes