Well, I"m acquiring my grandmother's aluminum canoe this spring and, since I'm living here by myself and wouldnt' want someone else driving my car anyway, I came up with an idea. This thing is a 16-17' double canoe that I would usually be using by myself as a fishing boat out on a river or lake. Here's my thought -

The river's nearest put-in is about 14 miles to my house, and the nearest public lake is about 9. I'm thinking that I could use a bike to pull the thing to the launch, then take the trailer and bike, stick them lying across the front (strapped on, of course) and hit the water. This way, wherever I end up, I can pull out the canoe, strap it to the trailer and be off.

Now, I'm expecting that I'm going to need a double-wheeled trailer - my question is this: could I build a conduit trailer like one of these bad boys:

http://tofu.org/drupal/node/84

that would be stretched out to cradle the front of the canoe and put the wheels at just a touch past the fulcrum point that might work? It wouldn't have to go much farther back (perhaps a foot) because the front would weight it on, and a tow strap would hold the canoe down.

I'm looking around online at different ideas, and they all have a pole strapped to the front of the canoe going to the seat post. While I appreciate it, that certainly seems like a rather mono-buttocked solution. I'm thinking that by attaching the trailer to the trailing arm, and then attaching the entire thing to the dropout that I could haul it faster and more comfortably than I could with a pole wiggling around on the top of the canoe...


As far as putting it ON the actual canoe, I'd had a thought that I could take conduit connectors, drill and tap three more holes around the circumference and use them as ghetto SKS connectors.

What do you guys think?