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housty9
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quote Spartan2: "Have posted it before, but our first canoe trip was in a rented Grumman. Fond memories: (1971)
 " Love your car.
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Spartan2
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quote housty9: "quote Spartan2: "Have posted it before, but our first canoe trip was in a rented Grumman. Fond memories: (1971)
" Love your car."
Whenever I post this photo people always comment about the car. I loved it too. It was our very first new car. Was a gas-guzzler, but I really did love it!
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520eek
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housty9
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 Yes I camo it.
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TeamTuna06
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quote tom m: ""blue Sky" my fishing canoe a 17 foot square stern 4hp  "
In case you wondered what an 8hp would do...
Video from one of our trips just outside the Q a few years back. I was videotaping...
Sport Canoe with Too Much Motor
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HammerII
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Oh yea this is so much better then them new age fancy plastic type looking things
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Spartan2
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Have posted it before, but our first canoe trip was in a rented Grumman. Fond memories: (1971)
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Knoozer
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Gaskin Lake, stairway campsite, best site I have ever found. 
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PuffinGin
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quote BigZig: "It's shiny aluminum under all that dull green paint. Just look at the bottom.
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Just how my husband's 17' Grumman looked. I think he painted it inside for duck hunting usage (before we met). It was his then our Quetico tripper for many years. We traded it and my 15' Alumnacraft in toward a used Wenonah Champlaign at Spring Creek Outfitters six years ago, April 10, 2008 to be exact. I think of his boat fondly and wonder if it found a good home.
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Mocha
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quote starwatcher: "
We convinced our outfitter to buy some Grumman canoes just for us.
  starwatcher"
your outfitter spent all their money on the canoes and couldn't afford pfd's??? :>)
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Stumpy
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awbrown
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Rental canoe, BWCA 1967. All they had back then for rentals were aluminum.
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gutmon
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Aluminum diehards
Northland Arboretum, Baxter, MN
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Exo
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quote TeamTuna06: "quote tom m: ""blue Sky" my fishing canoe a 17 foot square stern 4hp "
In case you wondered what an 8hp would do...
Video from one of our trips just outside the Q a few years back. I was videotaping...
Sport Canoe with Too Much Motor "
OK that's funny!!
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DayDreamin
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ready to roll!!
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Stumpy
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@ the DesPlaines River Canoe Marathon, a few years ago.
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alpinebrule
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Do Marathons count (Bought out the Grumman line)? Still has the G in the bow.
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NDpaddler2
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Not Grumman   
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Grandma L
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Grummans old and new - Great to paddle, portage and a good in-camp table!
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HammerII
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tom m
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"blue Sky" my fishing canoe a 17 foot square stern 4hp
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yellowcanoe
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15 foot Grumman. 1973 in BWCA with a two year old and two of us. But no pictures.
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sunnybear09
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quote Basspro69: "My first bwca trip, Tin Can Mike Lake, with the silver rocket  "
I bet this picture brings tears of Joy to TGO's eyes! Nothing like a healthy stringer of dead bass to warm his wayward heart!
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3Ball
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Alumacraft 17' is fair game right?
One man down
One other man is happy. Good times
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HighPlainsDrifter
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I owned an 18' SmokerCraft canoe when my children were young. It was the family truckster. I think that hulk weighed in at 85 lbs. It had an odd shaped hull giving a look of sponson chambers. But there were no chambers. I guess the company was thinking that the odd bulges would increase stability. It paddled somewhat like a brick.
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Basspro69
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My first bwca trip, Tin Can Mike Lake, with the silver rocket
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awbrown
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quote TeamTuna06: "quote tom m: ""blue Sky" my fishing canoe a 17 foot square stern 4hp "
In case you wondered what an 8hp would do...
Video from one of our trips just outside the Q a few years back. I was videotaping...
Sport Canoe with Too Much Motor "
Now THAT IS FUNNY. I still have tears in my eyes from laughing. "The Flying Torpedo."
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nctry
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I had 4 Alumacrafts...
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HighPlainsDrifter
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I think it can be fixed with Duct Tape
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thebob.com
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I owned & paddled a 17 foot, standard Grumman. In the photo I'm soloing a 17 foot Osagian. Check out the high tech gear: camo pfd, leather gloves, US Army uniform pants, a Mohawk paddle, and my day glo, deer hunting, stocking cap. A 7 day canoeing & backpacking trip in late December; went out in 1984 & came home in 1985.
BOB
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starwatcher
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We convinced our outfitter to buy some Grumman canoes just for us.
starwatcher
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Tony
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Spartan2
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Wow! Lansing! I'd say "come down and see us", except that I have a terrible chest cold and cough, and you don't want me to share that with you and your family!
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Grandma L
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Grumman - good for hauling the kitchen sink!
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fitgers1
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Old Ironsides, The Big Beer Can, Aircraft Carrier. She has had many nicknames and not all of them printable here. Oh how I love her.
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karl
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quote Spartan2: "Nice photos, Karl. I figured this thread would bring your photos out. :-)"
Thanks Spartan2; I have a bunch to post. I've been too busy with work and traveling; I'm in Lansing today. I figure db will be running out soon and I have some with nice Fall colors.
Starwatcher
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BigZig
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It's shiny aluminum under all that dull green paint. Just look at the bottom.
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butthead
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Spartan2
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Spartan2
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quote OneMatch: "How about a close cousin Alumacraft?
OK. Then I can add a couple more myself:
Our kids on Pipestone Bay, 1988 BWCA canoe trip (the only one we took with our two children). Paddling in the morning calm.
Spartan1, his son, and his grandson paddling on Fenske Lake, June 2013.
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Spartan2
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Nice photos, Karl. I figured this thread would bring your photos out. :-)
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TomT
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 Grumman Eagle 1983.
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OneMatch
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How about a close cousin Alumacraft?
My friends on Insula:
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AtwaterGA
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My wife with Aluminum canoe on Knife Lake after the 1999 in-line wind storm. We were in our Grumman canoe and stopped to camp and found this canoe.
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sst6313
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quote HighPlainsDrifter: "
I think it can be fixed with Duct Tape"
I think you're right!!
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