Chestnut Prospector 16

Description

A large volume tripping canoe:

• Length 16′
• Maximum beam 35″
• Beam waterline 33.25″
• Bow height 19.25″
• Centre depth 13.25″
• Displacement 420 lbs.
• Draft 4″
• Wetted surface 27.2 sq.ft.
• Weight to immerse 120 lb/in
• Prismatic coefficient 0.510
• Weight 55 to 60 lbs
• Keel-less or shoe keel

The Chestnut Canoe Company built this “workhorse of the North” to meet the specific needs of the prospector – good maneuverability through whitewater and wilderness, with capacity to carry substantial loads. The 16′ Prospector features a flattened, shallow arch hull with its fullness carried into the bow and stern, good depth amidships to maintain freeboard and deepened ends to keep paddlers and gear dry. The rockered keel-line makes it very maneuverable in whitewater. This was the favoured canoe of the late Bill Mason, Canada’s premier paddler…”it is amazing that such a large-volume tripping canoe can also be so beautiful to paddle solo in the leaned position – canoe ballet, as I call it. It is the ideal all-round canoe.”

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