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• Avon Pro Raft, 15 ft., 20” tubes, excellent condition.

• Rowing frame with drop marine plywood floor, wood seat, and thole pins.

• 4 South Branch Ash oars, 10 ft., stout, with clips

• 4 commercial life jackets, Type III

• Front drop bag on aluminum frame, 24 x 74”

• Rear drop bag, nylon, for soft items

• Rear nylon hammock drop floor sling for soft items

• Miscellaneous river boxes: 5 20 mil boxes, 1 rocket box, several ammo boxes.

• Miscellaneous webbing, cam straps, drag bags, chocks

• Aluminum sand stake

• Ropes: 40 ft bow and stern lines, 100 ft static rescue rope, throw bag

• Repair and patch kits, spare valves, D rings, patch material, spare thole pin assembly

• 2 bilge pumps

• 3 raft air pumps: 12 volt pump, 2 ft. tall hand pump, Avon foot pump

• Miscellaneous kitchen gear: dishwashing buckets, pots, firepan, handwashing pump/spigot

• Aluminum commissary box

• 2 burner Camp Chef propane stove with legs

• Gravity feed dual in-line water filter system in 13” ammo box

• 20 mil custom “easy clean” porta potty box with seat

• 50 cal ammo box Day Tripper potty with supplies

Avon, the Rolls Royce of river rafts. Ser. # AVB 16320-84-E. Mfg. Dec. 1984

15 ft. long, 7 ft. wide, 20” tubes, Hypalon. 4 chambers, 2 inflatable thwarts (seats) 49” long, 20” diameter tubes, of which I only use one. There are 6 Avon valves, with open, closed, spring-loaded settings, with good caps. 2 or 3 extra valves in the repair box.

There are 16 D rings around boat, 4 Hypalon handles on the outside, a grab rope along the inside tube on both tubes, 2 plastic handles with rope holes fore and aft, 2 large storage pockets with Velcro closures in the front compartment.

The front of the raft is circular, and slightly tipped up to float up over waves. The stern is called a “Bobtail: design, tapered, with a straight section in the middle to accommodate a motor mount, with 4 hard-rubber anchor points glued on to the tube, to attach the motor mount to the stern.

The boat is in excellent condition. Clean. A few stains on tubes. No cracks or holes in tubes: holds air like new. One small patch in floor. All seams, the abrasion strip around boat and most seam tapes are still glued tight.

The previous owner used it as a paddle raft in a small river company for two years, and he treated it very well. I rowed it carefully, and always put it away clean and dry.

It comes with 4, South Branch Ash oars. Stout and strong. A few dings on the oar tips, otherwise in good shape. I treat them with linseed oil. I use them with thole pins and clips. All 4 oars have clips, and there is an extra thole pin and stand in the repair box. The rowing seat is a soft, weathered, 2x6”x 6ft long, pine board I found floating in Powell Reservoir as it was filling in the 1970’s.

The kit includes 4 good, Type III, commercial life jackets.

The front thwart is replaced by a drop bag for storing hard objects, propane bottle, water jugs, air pump, bilge pump, hand washing system, water filter, etc. The bag is hanging on a standard commercial, 2 ½” rounded aluminum frame, 24x74”, which cradles a standard commercial, folding kitchen table. (not included).

The stern of the boat has a fitted, heavy nylon bag with 1” nylon webbing strips sewed onto it, which match up with d-rings on the top of the tubes. I use this for soft items, clothing, camping and sleeping gear, etc. There is a blue hammock like thing included that could be used as a cover, or additional storage device.

The boat comes with a huge pile of mostly 1” webbing and cam straps, probably enough for two boats, but better to have extra. There is a nylon mesh bag to store it all, so that things will dry out, and you can see what’s inside. The other nylon mesh bag is a drag bag for beer, to keep it cool. There is also a wad of straps with chocks (chockstones) on the end of each, for anchoring boats along cliffs, or to augment your boulders, cottonwood, willow or sand stake. The kit also includes a sand-stake for beaches.

The raft has bow and stern lines, 9mm, about 40ft. long. There is also a work/rescue rope, static line, about 100 ft long.

ROWING FRAME:

The frame is my custom design to fit this raft, and built from aircraft alloy steel tubing, 1.5”diameter, which is compact, very strong and seemingly rust proof. The company I used makes frames for racing cars. They use a mandrel bender, which makes precise curves without any crimping. There are 6 welds. The frame can be broken down into 2 parts and the floor, for transportation in small airplanes.

The dropped frame floor is designed to keep the center of gravity low for stability in big water. It is sized to fit 5 steel 20mil waterproof boxes, included, which are tightly tied to 14 ring bolts on the floor, and the frame, and the lids open without having to untie anything. The tops are level, which makes them nice and safe to live around. It is symmetrical, secure and easy to rig. The drop floor is marine plywood, and needs another coating of paint. There are two plywood planks that go under the sides of the frame, raising the floor a bit for clearance on smaller, rocky rivers.

KITCHEN & CAMP:

3 galvanized buckets for dishwashing. 5 large pots and lids for cooking. A dandy, waterproof aluminum commissary box , with round corners and a snap on lid has room for almost everything kitchen related. 26x15x10”. A large, 2-burner, Camp Chief stove, table top or stand-up, fold out, side shelfs, 360-degree wind screen, propane regulator and gas tube. Propane tank not included. Spacious. A 12x20x2” stainless fire pan. A waist high, hand washing station with a foot pump. A 13” tall ammo box with dual, in line, 12” fiber water filters in plastic casings, one for silt and one for giardia, and a long plastic tube and bucket to hang up, making it a gravity feed system.

A custom-made Porta-potty: another of my unique designs. Made with a “chubby” 20 mil. ammo can, one inch wider and more stable. It has an internal, horizontal baffle, near the top, with a 10x12” hole, with its own ½‘ lip, which meets a rubber foam strip glued under the lid, providing dual gaskets for the box. I call it an “easy clean” system because on one end of the box, near the bottom, a metal, garden hose connector is welded into the box. On the opposite end of the box a 2” brass fitting is welded, with female threads on the outside, to which a one-foot pvc pipe can be screwed in. Put the box on its end, with the pipe sticking into a sewer line. We have a 5” vertical clean out pipe. Turn on the hose, wiggle the box, shake the water around, and soon you have a clean porta potty. No fuss, no muss, no plastic bags to wrangle. Easy, cheesy.

A 50cal ammo box, “Day Tripper” potty with supplies for the occasional pit stop when not in camp. A plastic toilet seat, in a neoprene envelope bag is included.

MISCELANEOUS EQUIPMENT:

Repair and patch kits:

There are two steel boxes for repairs. The 50 cal. Ammo box has tools, materials and parts for patching the boat and making minor repairs to the boat, frame, oars. Useful tools, some of which are there because at some time I had wished I had one! There is also a large gray, steel box with a bunch of D rings mounted on round patches, lots of neoprene material, some spare valves, a spare rowing pin assembly, and other stuff, that I don’t take on the river.

PUMPS: 2 bilge/water pumps: a vertical, 2 ft. hand, cylinder, pump, a horizontal, one-hand pump, mounted on a board. Three air pumps: a small 12-volt air pump, one 5”x 2ft tall, cylinder hand pump and an Avon, diaphragm foot pump.

A few ammo and steel boxes of various sizes. One large, 11x12x29” sturdy steel box w/latching lid, not waterproof, but good for food packed in plastic bags.

WHAT YOU NEED TO GET:

A tube of Barge glue. Water jugs. A kitchen table: standard is a folding aluminum table that nests in the 24x71” drop bag frame. A ground tarp for the kitchen. Kitchen cooking and eating tools. A sledge hammer for the sand stake and can-flattening. Cooler/ice chest. Propane tank. Dry-bags for clothes and camping stuff.

Food and beer! A river guide, either printed, or a person!

included accessories

• Rowing frame with drop marine plywood floor, wood seat, and thole pins.
• 4 South Branch Ash oars 10 ft stout with clips
• 4 commercial life jackets Type III
• Front drop bag on aluminum frame 24 x 74”
• Rear drop bag nylon for soft items
• Rear nylon hammock drop floor sling for soft items
• Miscellaneous river boxes: 5 20 mil boxes, 1 rocket box, several ammo boxes
• Miscellaneous webbing, cam straps, drag bags, chocks
• Aluminum sand stake
• Ropes: 40 ft bow and stern lines, 100 ft static rescue rope, throw bag
• Repair and patch kits, spare valves, D rings, patch material, spare thole pin assembly
• 2 bilge pumps
• 3 raft air pumps: 12 volt pump, 2 ft tall hand pump, Avon foot pump
• Miscellaneous kitchen gear: dishwashing buckets, pots, firepan, handwashing pump/spigot
• Aluminum commissary box
• 2 burner Camp Chef propane stove w/ legs
• Gravity feed dual inline water filter system in 13” ammo box
• 20 mil custom “easy clean” porta potty box
• Day Tripper potty