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Old Town Camper 16 Canoe

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Engineered to allow the whole family to feel at ease, the Old Town Camper 16 is a general-purpose canoe that is equally at home on ponds, lakes and rivers.

Surprisingly fast for a 16 ft. canoe, the Camper 16 features a wide, flat bottom that provides reassuring stability when canoeing with younger family members
Royalex® multilayer composite offers excellent abrasion resistance and springs back from impacts
Royalex also makes a much lighter weight hull than standard polyethylene and offers excellent strength and toughness
Exterior layers of vinyl sandwich interior layers of ABS plastic and undergo heating and molding, producing a superior-quality watercraft material
Features ash-framed web seats, contoured ash portage yoke and thwart, durable vinyl gunwales, molded polyethylene decks with integral grab handles

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Old Town Camper 16 Canoe with Web Seats

5.0

(based on 4 reviews)

100%

of respondents would recommend this to a friend.

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Lightweight (3)

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Best Uses

Day trip (3)

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Jul

2011

(7 of 7 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

NFCT Solo Through Paddle

By Alex the gryptianer

from Leesburg, VA

About Me Advanced

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Pros

Lightweight
Rugged

Cons

Best Uses

Canoe camping
Day Trips
Flat Waters
Rapids Paddling
Rivers

Comments about Old Town Camper 16 Canoe with Web Seats:

I conducted a solo through paddle of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail in one of these. I'm a bigger guy at 6'3" 270lbs and needed a canoe large enough to hold me and my gear. This canoe, with some additional outfitting served me well on 740 miles of lakes, rivers, swamps, and portages. It is very stable and I really enjoyed standing up and poling this up rivers.

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Jun

2010

(6 of 7 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

You just might want to check......

By oldie moldy

from Friday Harbor, Washington

About Me Casual/ Recreational

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Pros

Cons

Heavy

Best Uses

Comments about Old Town Camper 16 Canoe with Web Seats:

Use my Camper solo, sitting on front seat facing aft, my weight counter balanced by camping gear and dog. Not your bannana shaped white water boat but a darn good all-rounder. I was suprised to see the weight listed as 59 lbs. Mine is 76 lbs. If weight is important to you bring the bathroom scales and check prior to purchase. The center thwart is a killer when portaging. I replaced it with one from Teal Paddles. This is a good honest canoe that will serve you well.

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Nov

2008

(20 of 20 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Super

By KJ

from Redmond WA

About Me Recreational

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Pros

Cleans Easily
Dries Easily
Good Waterproofing
Lightweight

Cons

Best Uses

Day Trips

Comments about Old Town Camper 16 Canoe with Web Seats:

My wife and I started paddling in her parents' sea kayaks with our small boys (toddlers at the time), sharing a cockpit with each one. When the boys got too big for that, I looked for one boat in which we could all go together.

We have been in the Camper with the boys on flat rivers, lakes and Puget Sound, often with the boys hanging over one edge or the other "paddling", dragging their hands in the water, or "fishing" with toy nets. This boat is STABLE. I really thought I would miss out on paddling on the Sound, but as long as the wind is down, it is super on the big water. The one drawback to the hull design is that it doesn't have great tracking when the wind is up, but the stability in waves, the light weight and the carrying capacity more than make up for it.

On the carrying capacity, check the specs. You will not find many 16 footers that can carry more. Many of them carry anywhere from 200 to 400 lbs less.

After lugging around the kids and the gear, it was a great surprise to take it out solo and paddle backwards from the bow seat. I covered a surprising amount of distance at surprising speed - all the while staying dry an having some room to move around (unlike the old kayaks). Not only is this my current boat, it is my next boat.

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Jul

2008

(8 of 8 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Beautiful design - and stable too

By Novice Idiot

from Minnesota

About Me Recreational

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Pros

Lightweight
Rugged

Cons

Best Uses

Day Trips
Flat Waters

Comments about Old Town Camper 16 Canoe with Web Seats:

This is a very nice canoe. Just at the weight limit for one person to heft it from the roof rack down to the shore.

A very stable tandem canoe.

Nice wide beam at center. I have not camped with this canoe - but am considering doing so.

Was out on the lake the other day with 35 knots off the nose. Yeah - a challenge. But was easy to get this beauty in line and head back to port.