Bill Kearley
Supporter
Got stuck waiting for parts for the Cobra so took on another project. This is what I picked up in Salmon Arm B.C.
I've had the idea for a few years now about drifting the Yukon river from Whitehorse to Dawson City in the Yukon. At 70 years of age I should give my head a shake but last month I bought an old aluminum home made 24 foot pontoon boat with trailer and an old 130 horse Johnson outboard.
So far I have stripped it down to nothing and starting the rebuild. New vinyl deck, all new wiring, solar power, new 50 horse Honda, on demand hot water, kitchen, shower, sleeping area.
Looks like a super amazing trip! I know nothing about the Yukon, so have some dumb questions: How long do you expect the trip to take? Do you already know it's deep enough the entire way? Where will you buy fuel along the way? Carmacks maybe? (I haven't done any calcs at all; maybe you can bring enough to make it the entire way?)
) This is the kind of route plan I make for one of the services we do at work, so I know it works well, on roads, and along the Suwannee River here in Florida. If you think the file could be useful, I'll send it to you. I can also export to many different file types. The way we use it is, I export it as a GPX file, and then load it into an app called OsmAnd which is really good because before departing you can download the map background data for the area you'll be in, and then cell service isn't needed; it uses GPS satellites only when that's all there is, and it works great. Anyway, I show the river route as 437 mi (703 km). So if you could average 10 mph and motored 8 hours per day, that's about 5.5 days. Seems doable! Seems like a good trip!
