Crack's in Coleman canoe's
A brother gave me a 16' Colman canoe with a huge crack in it. Didn't have a clue how to fix it so stored it till I had several more smaller cracks. Well finally had to do something and got to checking around and found a you tube video on the subject. Needed steel window screen, clear plastic milk jug's and soldering iron. First I drilled a hole at the end of the crack; supposed to stop it from spreading. The cut a patch to cover the crack from the window screen. Melted it into the side of the canoe with the soldering iron then filled the thing with the milk jug melted into the canoe with the soldering iron. Really was pretty simple but just finished it recently so don't know how long it will last. I don't use a canoe a lot. I tried the same thing on a plastic barrel I run my outboard in but didn't melt in any milk jug. Just melted the plastic over the holes then melted in the screen. It did stop the leaks. Probably if you have one of those plastic kayak's with a crack you could fix it the same way. Took me a long time to get an answer for the canoe so thought I'd pass it on here.