2008 GHEENOE Hi Sider

SELLER DESCRIPTION

2008 GHEENOE Hi Sider, 15' 4'' Harley W. Gheen always loved to go fishing, especially in small rivers and shallow, hard-to-get places. But Harley found out that to get to those places meant going out in a canoe, which, as we all know, can be very tricky at times and very wet if you're not careful. Being a Tennessee man, he can tell ya the water can be pretty cold. Trying to fish with more than one person in a canoe can be very difficult, also. In the middle of the 60's Harley, at the time a senior designer at the Cape Canaveral Space Center, came across some drawings of a boat he had sketched up when he worked as a draftsman at Dempster Brothers in Knoxville, Tennessee. Putting his skills to work, he came up with a design that would be not only extremely stable, but that would allow the option of putting an outboard motor on the stern thus saving his paddling arm for more fishing. This design also let Harley get into really shallow water, which works out great when fishing the flats and marshes. So around 1968, the Gheenoe (part Gheen - part canoe) was born. In 1970 Harley quit his job at what had become the Kennedy Space Center and with his wife Bobbie and their kids they started Gheen Manufacturing. They put all their time and energy into Harley's Gheenoe project and over 30 years and thousands of Gheenoes later, they still build the one and only Gheenoe. Many people have tried to copy it, but Harley still builds the only Gheenoe brand on the market. Boat includes live well.