Hou 17 Canoe
This boat is a speed machine! This boat is as amazing as the hōu-13 is fun. Designed with the explorer in mind and especially the explorer who wants to get there efficiently and quickly. It’s a sublime balance between load carrying and efficient paddling. This boat eats up the miles with ease. A fantastic long distance fast expedition boat that paddles well when substantially loaded. Alternatively it paddles amazingly as a fast day boat.
As for the style, it’s the great modern blend of flattish hull, slight curvature and rocker allowing for manoeuvrability when required but focusing mainly on making forward paddling easy. Simply it’s a longer, more efficient, slightly sleeker version of the brothers 15 and 16. People who have paddled it in the past always remark on how great it feels for such a large boat. If you want a boat that will look after you on a long trip, this is the one.
| Weight: | From 37Kg |
| Carrying Capacity: | 400Kgs |
| Length: | 17 Ft 1" |
| Width: | 35" |
| Depth: | 13" |
Specifications
| Quality | Premium or 2nd Quality |
| Colour | Blue or Forest or Firebrick Red or Purple |
| Trim Height | Low-Line Trim or Standard trim |
| End grabs | No rope end grabs or Yellow with black fleck or Orange with black fleck |
| Seating | 2 x wood/web seats or 3 x wood/web seats or 2 x Wood Web Front Sailing Seat |
| Yoke | Standard Yoke or Deep Dish Yoke or No Yoke |
| Kneeling thwart | No kneeling thwart or Fitted kneeling thwart |
| Lacing | None or End Black or Full Black |
| Packaging | Sleeved or Unwrapped |
| Model | Polyethylene |
| Internal Colour | White (standard) |
| Gunwales | Vinyl Gunwales |
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