Adirondack Boat Builders for over 35 years
hornbeck1@frontiernet.net    518.251.2764     Olmstedville, N.Y. 12857

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Regular Hours:
Tuesday thru Saturday from 10-5
Closed Sunday and Monday
  518.251.2764

Our Winter Sale is coming back again this year.
From December 1st to March 31st, 2012 we will discount our boats 10%
and our accessories 15% when a boat is purchased and paid in full.
Call us for more details.

We build and sell double paddle canoes and equipment to go with them.  Double paddle canoes are very ‘kayak’ like.  The paddler sits low in the boat so that body weight serves as stabilizing ballast.  Legs extend forward to foot braces that keep the paddler positioned correctly.  Hulls are relatively narrow so that efficient, easy to use double blade paddles can be used insuring, among other things that every stroke propels the boat forward without the constant need of the correctional strokes required of single blade paddles and conventional canoes.  

Unlike kayaks, double paddle canoes do not have full decks.  This means that getting you and you gear in and out of a boat is relatively easy.  Double paddle canoes (and ours in particular), are lighter and easier to deal with away from the water than most kayaks.  Equipment intensive activities, like fishing and photography, are better performed from our open, relatively roomy canoes.   

We build all of our boats here on the Trout Brook road in Olmstedville which is in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State.  We are 90 minutes north of Albany and 90 minutes south of Lake Placid .  10 minutes off Northway exit 26 or 28. 

We have fabrication shops, storage sheds and a store where our boats are displayed along with paddles, life jackets, roof racks, books, maps, paddling specific clothing, etc.

We also have a pond and a boat house with all of our boats available for demonstration.

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Light enough to carry into the many interior lakes and ponds in the Adirondacks