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Nova Craft Prospector 16 TuffStuff & TuffStuff Expedition
A Popular Sized Lightweight TuffStuff Open Canoe For Families & Expedition Paddlers
TuffStuff & TuffStuff Expedition is a supremely lightweight material that is extremely durable, perfect for making canoes out of. The Nova Craft Prospector 16 is ideal for most paddlers as it delivers a perfect balance of weight saving, impact resilience and performance.
Prospector 16 TuffStuff: £2,879.00 (RRP £3,199.00 - Saving £320.00)
Prospector 16 TuffStuff Expedition:
£3499.00
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Nova Craft Prospector 16 TuffStuff
The Nova Craft Prospector 16 in TuffStuff is a popular and widely paddled canoe due to its' size being ideal for both tandem and solo paddling. Now with the arrival of Nova Craft's superb Tuff Stuff and Tuff Stuff Expedition materials, the Prospector 16 is amazingly light and so easy to portage considering its size. Made in the home of open boating - Canada, Nova Craft have been manufacturing canoes for over 40 years and are world renowned for their quality designs and workmanship.
The hull shape of the Prospector 16 TuffStuff is extremely versatile across so many different types of water, from calm recreational paddling on lakes, rivers and broads, to paddling down some whitewater or playing in standing features. While these canoes are perfectly capable for use on whitewaters, bouncing off rocks is not something we would recommend when it comes to lightweight laminate open canoes. The Prospector 16 TuffStuff has a shape that is supremely manoeuvrable, forgiving and also great fun to paddle. This makes it ideal for those wanting to hone their skills and take their canoeing to the next level as well as those just starting out wanting a lightweight versatile canoe.
TuffStuff as a material is a great innovation from Nova Craft. It is a composite material made up of Basalt and innegra fibres. The Basalt fibre is made of melted basalt rock and Innegra is a fibre consisting mostly of polypropylene, when woven together into a cloth and infused with Nova Crafts high impact vinylester resin system the outcome is not only lightweight but also TuffStuff. Finished with a smooth and shiny gel coat on the external of the hull these canoes look amazing and can really perform on the water. While after use (and potentially some abuse) they canoes get scratches and scrapes on them the great thing about gel coat is it can be repaired with a Colour Match Gel Coat Repair Kit and the damage is pretty much undone.
If you want a more rigid, tougher, more high performance Nova Craft Prospector 16 perfect for expeditions then consider the Nova Craft TuffStuff Expedition construction. This construction offers additional layers of TuffStuff through the bottom of the canoe, while this does add a little weight it allows the canoe to take a bit more punishment and offer even more on the water performance.
The Nova Craft Prospector 16 TuffStuff comes with 2 x Ash Wood Bootlace Seats, a Deluxe Deep Dish Carrying Yoke, An Ash Thwart, Ash Wood carrying handles and built-in buoyancy tanks in the bow and stern. Options such as factory fitted skid plates, kneeling thwart and special colours are also available upon request.
Note:
The Nova Craft Prospector Tuff Stuff canoe is also available with factory fitted wooden gunwales, skid plates and kneeling thwart. This means that your special order canoe will be filly outfitted with your specified options before it is shipped to the UK. Please call us on 01603 747139 for price and timescale.
Features
- TuffStuff or Expedition composite
- 2 x Ash-Web Seats
- Ash Carrying Yoke
- Built-in buoyancy tanks bow and stern
- Bow and Stern Ash Carry Handles
- Aircraft grade black anodised aluminium gunwales
- Reinforced ABS end deck plates.
- Manufactured in Canada
- Symmetrical Hull
- Shallow Arch Bottom
- Moderate Rocker
Dimensions
- Length: 16ft / 488cm
- Width: 36in / 91.4cm
- Bow Depth: 23in / 58.5cm
- Centre Depth: 15in / 38cm
- Stern Depth: 23in / 58.5cm
- Rocker: 2.5in / 6.4cm
- TuffStuff Weight: 56lbs / 25.4kg
- TuffStuff Expedition Weight: 62lbs / 28.1kg
- Manufacturers Weight Capacity: 1000 LBS / 455 KGS
Optimum weight capacity may differ - please contact us if you are unsure about the suitability of the Nova Craft Prospector 16 TuffStuff for your weight
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Standard Delivery
If you would like the Nova Craft Prospector 16 TuffStuff delivered, please contact us with your address details and we can discuss the options for delivery using our fleet of Canoe Shops vehicles.
Collection - Click & Collect
The Nova Craft Prospector 16 TuffStuff is available for instore collection from Norfolk Canoes or from any branch within the Canoe Shops Group.
Our other stores are:
- Bournemouth Canoes - Poole
- Brighton Canoes - Newhaven
- Cornwall Canoes - St Columb Road Nr Newquay
- Kayaks & Paddles - Plymouth
- Manchester Canoes - Warrington
- Southampton Canoes - Totton
We will contact you to arrange collection upon receipt of you order.
