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Funny as hell. Not laughing at you - but with you. Here's some physics on canoes/scanoes: 1) You cannot defeat certaain Rules of Physics. They are constants. 2) maximum hull speed on a typical 17ft canoe is veryu near 6 to 7 mph, depending on the shape of the bottom, and the stern. Yours is a scanoe with a teenie weenie transom for a motor. The difference between that transom and a more common double ender is virtually nothing when Physics is applied. 3) As a canoe approaches max hulll speed, they DO NOT PLANE. Rather, they sink by the stern gradually until they become unstable. In your case, the stern squatted enough at 11mph to force the motor into the mud. 4) The faster you go, the more the stern sinks. So, don't exceed max hull speed in shallows. Get a side mount for the motor that allows you to be in a more natural driving position, and a better control position using the tiller extension. This applies to ALL canoes. The transom mounted motor is a capsize waiting to happen. In your case, you werent able to recover from the sudden change in torque due to the awkward control angle. Put it on the side and forward about three feet. You'll be very glad. To take full advantage of the power , you need a different boat, my friend. A jon, or a Grumman Sportboat, which has a real transom and can actually plane without squatting. Have fun.

It’s called a square stern! I put a 6 horse on mine and I think you would be happier with a 6 horse! Liked your video👍!

Wow took you five years to shut down that motor

2 stroke or 4 stroke? And why?

Thank you Sir for sharing this lesson! It's good seeing a fine man helping our brotherhood! Semper Fi

Dang. Thanks for showing us your lessons learned. I just added a 6hp to my coleman. I have the killswitch tethered and I don't have the knob tightened to keep the throttle in place. I'm going to keep it that way after seeing your video.

Another thing people might want to consider is, INSURANCE!!! 🙂

Always make sure everything is secured to the boat to some capacity.

Thanks for sharing this. I got a Ram X Scanoe from a buddy of mine and now just starting out to get it set up and deciding on which power to use ( electric or gas outboard) I like the speed and the 4hp seems the best fit I didn't realize it would push the boat too fast, so thanks for sharing your experience.

Just watched the video all the way through slamming door and lesson learned for sure glad your okay and hopefully you will buy a flat bottom jon

Brother what happened was you hit a log submerged in the water or drug the bottom and you were using the extension without a Killswitch you have to understand your in a small boat and any simple mistakes could flip a canoe invest in a flat bottom Jon brother thank you for sharing be safe out there

Nice to see you were more worried more about the value of the things you were losing than the water contamination that immediately caused lol..

if you were sitting closer to your motor, you would have had enough time to react to that by slowing and tilting the motor which should have prevented this from happening! Imagine that happening in a larger vessel going faster.. you need to always be prepared for these things to happen, and if you don’t know the waters well or if there’s a chance of hitting rocks or logs, proceed with caution.. could end catastrophic at higher speeds you were lucky! Thankyou for posting this, hopefully others can learn from this

Don't lock down the tilt on the outboard. It needs to be free to kick up if you hit bottom or a log.

Glad your good thanks for sharing the experience

If I had an outboard on mine I wouldve put outriggers for stability

Wrong tiller handle

I've been looking at the Bassraider but a friend is selling me their square back canoe for $50. So this looks like the better option for me. I am looking at putting outriggers on the boat, so I don't have the unfortunate incident you did. Would you think outriggers would be better forward or aft on a canoe like you have setup?

I'm sorry for your loss.

Just found your channel. Subbed. Will be looking forward to seeing you posting more videos this season I hope.

Thanks for putting this together. Just picked one up myself. Happy fishing bro!

Dang dude! Glad you are ok. What a story.. giving me second thoughts on adding a motor mount to my canoe.

Been thinking about a motor on my canoe. May have helped me decide against it. Thanks for sharing

Bro that sucks...

Does anybody know how this boat compares to the pond prowler 10???

Ive been looking for a video just like this, im 6ft 4 and thinking bout buying a pond prowler 9ft from my buddy, but wasnt sure how id fut and feel stable, the sear pedestal is a great idea, actualy evwrthing in this vid is practical,

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If you took that thing off the bed it would lay flat

i took my friend canoeing and we just got in the river and i really didn’t expect to capsize be i have experience and i thought i had a handle on it but it happened 30 minutes after getting on the river. our river was a little faster. i had to swim as fast as i could to catch the paddles and as much gear as i could get and my friend swam the canoe to shore. the swimming part was so exhausting that i had to take a nap right afterwards. then our gear was wet we lost anyway to make a fire we lost our shoes and most of our food and water and fishing gear and froze that night and then finished the hundred miles. the part we started on was the easiest part but we didn’t even come close to tipping again after because my friend did something kind of dumb which caused it and i had zero warning so that one experience was super unexpected but sure did wake me up. i wasn’t wearing my life jacket it was under my seat so the sheriffs wrote me a $300 ticket when we were loading up to leave. i had i good time but i felt bad because i invited my friend who i hadn’t seen in like a decade to do something i like to do and i got him a plane ticket and then tried to drown him starve him freeze him dehydrate him make him paddle his butt off baked him in the sun and made him walk around with no shoes…. his phone got destroyed. i kept trying to make a fire because i couldn’t sleep because i was so cold and i got an ember five times but no fire because everything i could find was wet and it was pretty bare around there so it was difficult to find anything except bits of grass. i’ve always thought i could make a survival fire by hand if i needed to and the one time i needed to i kept failing over and over…. but i had fun. something that helped us out is that i had a rope with a carabiner on each end clipped to the front and the back of the canoe and my friend had his life jacket so he was able to use the rope to help him pull it to shore and i ended up about a mile down river from the accident so i walked back barefoot and he already had the canoe out of the water.

Lift your front motor up that’s way unsafe and slowing you down .

Good, fair review. I have a Bass Raider and agree with your assessment 100%. Although I've owned several fishing boats, I've concluded the Bass Raider (or similar) is the best value in fishing boats.

Cool video. I've been interested in powered canoes for rivers. I would rather have a steering wheel instead of a tiller.

Glad to see you were not hurt but a canoe was never meant to be used like that people should stop pushing the limits of water craft. If a person want's a bass boat get a bass boat.

The instructions for the original Scanoe suggested casting a concrete weight for the bow. ( HD garbage bag inside a burlap bag, placed in the bow of the boat that's been carefully leveled in 4 dimensions. A bag of Quickcrete is mixed up and poured into the bags, which are clinched up tight as possible and left to harden. It molds the bottom into position. It's heavy, and a hassle, but necessary. ) Without a passenger in front, or sufficient weight, or a forward operator position w/ extended tiller ( as shown ) the Scanoe should Not be run with a motor.

This is exactly why I'm building a canoemaran- two 17 ft grumman canoes connected. Slow and bulky yes but super stable and huge capacity, which is good for this fat old guy lol.

Dude, I roll a Nissan 3.5HP short shaft on my 1990's Dark Green Scanoe. You gotta be careful with that HP, but they can handle up to 5hp. Mine would go 15mph downstream/13mph upstream. Made a custom super long tiller handle out of a lawnmower handlebar, made all the difference

Great video!

Sorry that happened to you, so glad I just paddle my Canoe. "Path of the Paddle" by bill mason is completely free and available on youtube and a great resource to learn how :) It's very stealthy and very satisfying

my nt300 hits 6.7mph full throttle. makes me question the 3hp rating lol.

"Thank you Jesus"!

why not just back the truck down the ramp closer to the launching point? That way you don't have to carry the gear quite so far and make as many trips. "Work smarter, not harder"

One time I cot 6 Bass on 1

I have a Pond Prowler 10, and I put a Hangkai 12hp on it. , fast as hell. I love that boat because it can't sink.

1980s or 90s 2 stroke 15hp outboard would make this thing haul ass

Thanks for posting! I guess a canoe can be dangerous.

Where do you get you parts? Having trouble locating.

Can you post the shaft length on your motor that you are using with the bass raider?

Did you wear a life vest?

I think everyone who has been boating has made mistakes at one time or another. Thank God You lived to learn from it. Canoes are not really designed for motors and a very small one if you use one. Yeah tie everything together and to the boat. Have a blessed one.

Hi there can you tell us where you got that arm for your motor so you dont have to hold it directly from the motor?