Superior Portage Pads (Standard) have aluminum fasteners that attach easily around your yoke with wing-nuts. The pads have a sound plywood bottom and the foam pad is encased in durable, weather-resistant black cordura.
Is your yoke just too beautiful to drill? Are there times when you'd like to take your pads off and not leave a hole behind? If so, our new clamp-on pads are for you! Based on the same comfortable, yet bombproof design as our original pads, these pads offer many advantages over existing clamp-ons. There's no protruding hardware to tear your packs on. Also, all of the hardware is captive, so you can't lose any parts at the worst possible time. Imagine! Comfort, durability, lightness, and convenience - all in one pad design!
The optimum combination of comfort, light weight and durability. The sling-like design of our pads flexes to adapt the load to your shoulders. New longer thicker pads completely cover the pad frame. The single bolt mount, when loosened, provides enough side-to-side adjustment to comfortably fit any shoulders. You would be amazed how much difference in comfort even a half inch of adjustment can make!
Tumplines were originally used back in the day by the voyageurs of the North American fur trade to help carry their heavy loads of pelts and rations across portages. The tumpline should NOT be worn on the forehead. Rather, it is placed across the top of the head, just to the rear of the hairline. By doing this, the weight of the load is transferred off your shoulders and it also keeps the load over your center of balance.
The Canoe Thwart Bag does hang from your canoe thwart. It also “thwarts” awkward and dangerous attempts to get your raincoat out of a stowed canoe pack by keeping essential items close at hand. Big enough for a lightweight rain jacket, camera, compass, map and other sundries.
Keep your sunscreen handy and the field guide out of the bilge water. Our tough, 15-ounce canvas Model I Thwart Bag features a clear map pocket and a storm flap that protects the main compartment's zipper.
Keep your sunscreen handy and the field guide out of the bilge water. Our tough, 15-ounce canvas Model II Thwart Bag features a buckle down flap that covers both a map-sized pocket and a convenient sunglasses pocket. In addition, a storm flap protects the main compartment's zipper.
Keep small items such as sunscreen, bug repellent and sunglasses organized, handy, and out of the bilge water with one of our thwart bags. They also provide a convenient place for storing your maps where they can be seen while staying dry.
Keep small items such as sunscreen, bug repellent and sunglasses organized, handy, and out of the bilge water with one of our thwart bags. They also provide a convenient place for storing your maps where they can be seen while staying dry.
An innovation in thwart bag design, the unique wedge shape hangs straight down off the thwart. A rigid plastic bottom prevents sagging and can be removed to double as a cutting/fillet board. These bags are excellent at shedding the rain with their angled front and back. They attach to the thwart with buckles. Wedge Thwart Bags are equipped with snaphook straps for attachment to our packs and to be used as a chest pack. D-Rings on the front for attaching our map pockets.