How many take boats with them?

Somewhat on topic I recently read an article on "the Great Loop".
Sounds like relaxing fun and I wondered if anyone here has done it.

Now I doubt that I'll have the time and knowledge for it but the idea piqued my interest.

colliehauler,

Excellent choice! Lund makes very fine high quality excellent riding boats. Don't own a Lund presently but if some of our smaller boats ever wore out, a new Lund would be at the top of our list and with an Evinrude or Johnson E-tec outboard. No valve issues to deal with like the 4 strokes and much lighter in weight too and more fuel efficient.

We work our boats and engines very hard and a lot because we have such vast boating waters here. Typical boating day for us is going 60 to 90 miles of boat travel. Much of it on open water with constant wrinkles and boat wakes so we demand reliability and a pleasant ride.

Your 16' Lund Rebel is very similar to our slightly larger and deeper Smoker Craft King Troller except we have 4 swivel seats and a much larger all power ext long shaft outboard and a large walk around under fold down Bimini top. Been a fantastic type of day use all purpose combo boat for many years now and handles safe on rougher water too. You'll love the interior carpet and it really makes the operational noise so much quieter and pleasant and hoses clean in seconds. Not cheap but very good!

colliehauler wrote:

FunnyCamper wrote:
old times was 24 ft Lund behind our truck camper. ahh, those were the days :)

now it is 1 fishing kayak, 2 recreational kayaks we take at all times inside toyhauler. water people.

Just bought a used Lund Rebel 16' boat with 25hp outboard. Will explore some of the lakes that allow motorized craft in the boundary waters this summer.

Congrats! Have a blast with it! We loved ours and hope you have great luck with your new Lund!

westend wrote:
What is your freakin' point?
This thread is about RV'ing and how users also carry their watercraft. It's not about whether your definition of "boat" is to be discussed or if there is usable water in the West. You have almost derailed this thread twice with your nonsense and if history repeats, we will now be subject to your name calling and juvenile put-downs.
Please, stay on topic and be an adult.

X2. I stand with my fellow Minnesotan!

"TW, if anyone is using a boat hauler that mounts on a truck, I'd like to hear your experience. I have a '14 Alumacraft that needs to travel on the truck."

Ditto this ^^^^

Sourcing a 14' boat for going on the truck either by itself or when towing the 23' "big boat".

FWIW, any given summer weekend, there are dozens of folks camping (equal mix of RV's and tents) at many Southcentral Alaska lakes with boats along, powered, canoe, kayak, even SUP's lately.

What is your freakin' point?
This thread is about RV'ing and how users also carry their watercraft. It's not about whether your definition of "boat" is to be discussed or if there is usable water in the West. You have almost derailed this thread twice with your nonsense and if history repeats, we will now be subject to your name calling and juvenile put-downs.
Please, stay on topic and be an adult.

BTW, if anyone is using a boat hauler that mounts on a truck, I'd like to hear your experience. I have a '14 Alumacraft that needs to travel on the truck.

We've been all over the western USA nearly a dozen times in our 52 years of RV'ing and even longer boating and yer with multiple occupants and a motor that will pull waterskiers. YES, I do have very detailed maps and charts and google maps/satellite view also just like others on this forum have access to. Satellite photo maps don't lie and there isn't squat water compared to the eastern half of the USA other than having more white water rapids for kayaks or rafts. "westend", maybe you should be the one buying a map or using google maps satellite view!

How many deserts, dry brush lands, and barren rock mountains are there in the eastern half of the USA from Minnesota east? Basically almost none! Whereas the western half has hundreds of thousands of square miles with these and they are DRY and many do not even have enough water to float a 20' boat other than in reserviors and just a few lakes compared.

The Great Lakes alone has over 95,000 square miles of water surface and is 750 miles long east eo west and that's not including the St Lawrence that is another 743 miles long and is wide and deep up to 250 feet deep and the entire 3,000 miles is all connected together connected together and navigable by ships even up to 800 feet long coming and going from the Atlantic ocean.

Doesn't even include the over 70,000 boat navigable inland lakes or the over a million miles of boat usable rivers just in the eastern half of the USA alone.

The western half of the USA has huge dry deserts, barren land, and rock mountains with few decent lakes or resiviors or good rivers for boating, fishing, exploring, swimming, canoeing, kayking. Unlike in the eastern half of the USA and especially the vast Great Lakes, Gulf, and Atlantic shorelines areas. Recreational waters everywhere! Kind of hard to use any boat on dry or rock ground and ever harder on a mountainside!

Buy a map.

The western half of the USA in fact has MANY "decent lakes or resiviors or good rivers for boating, fishing, exploring, swimming, canoeing, kayking." (sic)

There's even a coast!

We sometimes bring an inflatable kayak and a 19 ft. Kevlar canoe. Kayak goes on the hitch rack and canoe goes on the roof. We sometimes bring them because we're in the west and there's lakes and reservoirs and rivers and stuff. There's even boating and fishing and...yeah all that. We don't bring them when we're going to the desert unless we're going one of the many desert lakes and reservoirs.

travelnutz wrote:
Yes, canoes, rowboats. kayaks, and porta boats are technically boats but have a very limited wave action they can take and survive without being swamped or rolled over, or broken up. We see it here repeated over and over every summer. Take their kayaks, canoes, porta boats down to the beach,etc. etc.

I have to say we love taking our kayaks camping but we mainly use them on small inland lakes. Yes they do have their limitations but this style of water craft can be enjoyed safely if used properly.

I grew up sailing on Lake Huron and know the dangers and how quickly things can happen, that is why we always wear approved life vests while enjoying our kayaks.