Thread: Trayon camper, 130, spare wheel location?

Originally Posted by Hoges

Exactly right re. the canoe!!.. it's actually a piece of fine furniture that floats!

Yeah a lot of people comment on the canoe and I have to agree it is a thing of beauty and I love using it. I always tell people, it's not beautiful because of any talent on my part- a canoe is a beautiful shape and wood is a beautiful material. Homer Simpson could build a wood strip canoe and it would be beautiful. Weight is approx 32kg. It's seen a lot of Aus on the roof of the 130, it's probably the most widely travelled timber canoe in Aus. I tell people we're looking for the inland sea.
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Originally Posted by POD

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It's seen a lot of Aus on the roof of the 130, it's probably the most widely travelled timber canoe in Aus. I tell people we're looking for the inland sea.

You may be right.

In which case this one is probably a close second.

Since I built it in 2017, the Defender has taken it to Adelaide twice for the Australian Masters Games, and to Geelong, Adelaide and Perth for the Australian Canoe Marathon Championships.

It has also travelled on the Camry to over 50 PaddleNSW Marathon Series races. They used to be about 700km return, but for the last year only about 200km return. So about another 3,000km.

My canoe is a bit easier to get up onto the Trayon since it is under the minimum weight for an ICF C1 of 10kg when I take the seat and footrest out. Last time I went to Tasmania for the Australian Wooden Boat Festival, that rack had two kayaks; an adult one weighing about 13kg and a child's one weighing under 6kg. I don't think my system would work with a 32kg canoe. Your system is a better solution.
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Glad to see I'm not the only crazy one! You may actually have me beat, mine hasn't made it as far as Perth, it comes on our trips up to Coongie and Carrawinya although we didn't get to Carrawinya this year; got some internet at Wanaaring and checked the park website to pay the camping tax, the park was closed for vermin control! Mine does tend to be the only wooden canoe most places we go (very few canoes in White Cliffs last month), although that seems to apply to the Landy these days as well.
I'm contemplating building a tandem sea kayak as a gift for a mate who is moving to Tassie next year and has a family shack on Bruny Island. Got any good plans?

made some unintended modifications to the Trayon...
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Snapped the rear universal joint on a steep climb, the dashcam shows the backward slide lasting 11 seconds. The Trayon became a crumple zone.

Originally Posted by POD

made some unintended modifications to the Trayon...
Kenna with Landy on Mt Sarah 2.jpgLandy Mt Sarah 2.jpg
Snapped the rear universal joint on a steep climb, the dashcam shows the backward slide lasting 11 seconds. The Trayon became a crumple zone.

Ouch!. Bet that was a fun 11 seconds.

Originally Posted by POD

made some unintended modifications to the Trayon...
Kenna with Landy on Mt Sarah 2.jpgLandy Mt Sarah 2.jpg
Snapped the rear universal joint on a steep climb, the dashcam shows the backward slide lasting 11 seconds. The Trayon became a crumple zone.

As John said "Ouch"
I hope everyone is OK, stuff can be fixed or replaced, people can't.

Tony

Originally Posted by TonyC

As John said "Ouch"
I hope everyone is OK, stuff can be fixed or replaced, people can't.

Tony

Yep, both ok thank you. Just as you say, it's just stuff, no tears were shed over it as we recognised we were blessed to have stayed upright and been stopped by a perfectly-placed tree. I didn't realise for a couple of days just how shaken-up my wife had been, I was personally more focussed on the logistical nightmare that ensued.

Originally Posted by POD

Yep, both ok thank you. Just as you say, it's just stuff, no tears were shed over it as we recognised we were blessed to have stayed upright and been stopped by a perfectly-placed tree. I didn't realise for a couple of days just how shaken-up my wife had been, I was personally more focussed on the logistical nightmare that ensued.

As Tony said....

Your wife endured the same 11 seconds, no mirrors and nfi. Scary stuff.