My Transportation to the Wild : Swift Packboat Adirondack 13.6

Hey folks, Joe here. Thanks for clicking on the video again. Well, it's the end of canoe season, or getting to be the end of canoe season. I got this boat back in May, and you've seen me using it through a lot of videos. I've probably used it each month from May until now, and we're at the end of October now. So I've been getting a lot of comments, a lot of questions about the boat, and asking if I can make a specific video for it. So this is that video. So first up, the make, model, all the specs, stuff like that. The company is Swift Canoe and Kayak. They're out of South River, Ontario. That's their main office. They have a couple stores, one near Gravenhurst, I believe, and a couple around Ontario. The boat itself is called an Adirondack 13-6. So Adirondack is the model. 13-6 is the length, 13 feet 6 inches. It's closer to 14 feet. And it's a pack boat. So it's not a canoe, it's not a kayak. it's basically an open topped kayak it's on a kayak hull but it's open top you can load your gear easily as you've seen carry it easily it weighs 26 pounds guys this thing is very light this is my left hand it's no problem to pick up it's a joy to portage and it's fun in the rapids i've i've surfed in rapids i've gone up against strong winds taking taking strong winds on the side um gone down probably only class twos maybe up to class twos but it's so fun it's so stable i feel very safe and sturdy in it as you can see i went super self-promoter and got my logo on there this is just a laminate on a sticker on top then i've got another sticker with my robinette name there as you can see definitely want people to know it's me coming you know another thing that sets this apart from a normal canoe will be the pedals where your feet go that's more traditional for a kayak and the seat the seat is awesome the seat allows you to sit comfortably for a long period of time as opposed to a normal canoe seat where it's just a bench you have no back support on this i have complete back support i have complete control of how far back i want the lean or how forward i have a lumbar removable adjustable lumbar that's attached by a dummy cord you can move it anywhere on there and the base is this carbon fiber um base that's super lightweight and you're up off the bottom of the canoe about three inches so once water starts sloshing around in there because it does get full of water sometimes you're staying dry your butt staying dry at least what I really don't like about the seat is that when it does get wet from rain or something like that it stays wet because it's material but what I do when I know it's going to rain I'll just clip the seat down and this is for traveling as well or portaging do that and then flip the canoe over so when you're portaging you can do that as well and it doesn't take long when you get to a portage it takes all of two seconds to do it or undo it and then you're ready to roll ready to roll so when i got the canoe another thing i purchased with it would be this carbon fiber yoke this pad does not come with it it's kind of slippy so originally i had tape on there to keep it on my shoulders but this pad works fine just comes on and off with velcro but this carbon fiber yoke has adjustable knobs and grabs the side of the boat when you want to when you want to start portaging i originally was loosening these and putting them on trying to fit it and it just took way too long at the portage so i found the right um tension that i want and all i do now when i come to the portage i grab this out of my my boat hook it on one side squeeze the boat together and pop it on and now it's on there it does not slide around it's super sturdy and i don't have to mess with the bolts at all it's a very very quick process honestly it takes less than a minute for me to get to the end of the portage take all the stuff out of my boat put my backpack on fix up the boat and start walking and to take it off squeeze the boat in together pop it off easy this goes at the front of my boat my bag goes at the back of my boat and i'm good to go the paddle i use is a Werner Kimono it's 240 means it's 240 centimeters it's a straight shaft breaks down um and it's it's a little bit wider or sorry longer than normal because i'm sitting so low in the boat that i'm not needing to go up like this i can literally just kind of paddle like this i really like this paddle you can see how the boat is two toned red and white the white comes up halfway it looks cool but it also gives it some protection this is the gel coat you can see on the bottom here where i've actually got spider webs through the gel coat of cracking and that's from bashing it off rocks and being a uncareful going over beaver dams and things like that but the gel coat will actually protect it and give it a lot more longevity so these boats come in three options the Kevlar fusion which is what I have it's a 26 pound expedition Kevlar which is a couple pounds more and the full carbon which I think is a little is obviously a little bit less weight you're going to be paying a lot more for the full carbon I believe if I had to do it again I would still go with the Kevlar Kevlar fusion it's worked perfectly for me. It's only been a year, but I've got a really good feel of this boat If you guys are interested in this stuff contact Swift. I dealt with Scott there. He's a great guy to deal with I hope this answered your questions. Have a good day guys. I'll see you on the next one. Goodbye