Congrats on the new canoe, er, nucanoe
I've had a Coleman Scanoe now for about 2 months and lovin it every chance I get to take it out. Last time we went to the lake, I forgot the paddles
so it stayed strapped to the jeep all day.
If you're looking for cheap anchors for the canoe (meaning you don't want to plop down $20+ for an anchor) - hit up good will and find some free weights - something 5+ lbs ought to work fine, 10lb if you really want to be sure of holding (I weigh 285lb, and a single 5lb anchor held me just fine. Did fine too when I added my nephew, who is about a buck fifty) - I have two of these anchors (one for the bow, one for the stern, when I want to really hold position without being flipped around by the wind) - no problems yet. I went with the free-weight anchor solution originally because I couldn't find my mushroom anchor, and using the heavy fluke anchors from my big boat seemed...overkill... for the canoe. I've since found the mushroom, but I'm not in a huge hurry to replace the free weight anchors at this point, because they work well enough. I am considering mounting a pair of anchor pullies - one on the bow, and an off-set stern one (I've got a square-transom model, for mounting a trolling motor on) with maybe some cleats under the center seat.
Fisherman's Marine was/is selling Danielson clamp on metal rod holders for about $5, so I picked one up to try out. Will probably purchase more if it works well enough. It looks like it will hold either a spin or a fly rod, which is great. I can troll little plugs for trout & bass on the spin rod, or troll a woolly bugger with the fly rod and not have to be messing with it's position, or have it in the way of paddling.
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