Pair of sponsons for canoe or other small boat. No hardware included. See our other listings if you want it with hardware. Ebay says "each" but in this case "each" means "each pair." The price stated is for 2 sponsons. If you order quantity of !, you will get one box with 2 sponsons in it.
What would happen if your canoe or jon boat flipped and became filled with water? Would it still float? The added flotation of sponsons will help keep it and you from going to the bottom. Helps with stability too and acts as a bumper as well. And they look sharp! Adds an accent stripe to your boat that makes it pop!
Each sponson is 9 feet long and this listing is for set of 2. Cross-section is a 4-inch semicircle. Made of extremely long lasting ethafoam, which is a resilient closed-cell foam that can stand up to outdoor conditions, including many years of outdoor storage.
We don't know much about attaching with glue. One customer reported success attaching them to a fiberglass boat with 5-minute epoxy. That's all we know about gluing them. Usually they are attached with seven #10=24 machine screws, 14 washers and seven nuts (not included) per side.
*We have identical item listed for a little more with plated steel hardware or another a bit more with stainless steel hardware
Here is what one buyer emailed us:
"Hey Jim!
Okay, the sponsons I purchased from you last week are awesome! We went camping and really loaded the canoe down. Out on the open and rough water the sponsons did a magnificent job of deflecting waves out and away from the canoe as they crashed into us. Normally I may have had to run the bilge pumps a couple of times on a trip like that, but not this time. Hardly any water splashed in, it was truly amazing (of course I did almost fully wrap my entire canoe since I installed two sets!)
Anyway, they worked great, they spliced together very nicely, and really look good on the canoe. I wish I would have ordered them sooner.
Thanks!"
Cary (ordered sponsons June 2009)
In the Spring of 2013 a university engineering team purchased our sponsons and used 2 sets spliced together to make a full length sponson on their solar boat (see photo of blue boat). They wrote:
""Jim,
The Sponsons absolutely made the difference in how well our boat looked. I'm attaching several photos for you to see it. For us the sponsons provided four functions. They prevented splash from hitting the pilot, added extra flotation (though it was not needed according to our buoyancy calculations), dressed the mating point between the hull and the top surface, and they made a nice rubrail."
Here's Ebay Feedback postings on this item:
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| great thank you! | Buyer: v.j.king772 ( 195  ) | March 2019 |
| Canoe Sponsons - 2 Flotation Strips (Bumpers) Without Hardware. Ships Free! (#123181222457) | US $79.00 | View Item |
| Fast ship, highly recommend this seller! | Buyer: | March 2018 |
| Canoe Sponsons - Flotation Strips - Bumpers - Stainless Steel Harware - 9-foot (#122154716927) | US $99.00 | View Item |
 | Best deal out there!!-Great Seller, Product, & Price A++SUPER FAST SHIPPING!!!!! | Buyer: |
| Excellent seller | Buyer: | May-02-14 10:59 |
| Canoe Sponsons - Flotation Strips - Bumpers - Stainless Steel Harware (#111289922801) | US $99.00 |
| fast shippingA+++ | Buyer: greenchuck55 ( 172  ) | Apr-16-14 06:42 |
| Canoe Sponsons - Flotation Strips - Bumpers - Stainless Steel Harware (#111289922801) | US $99.00 |
| 100% as offered. THANK YOU A GREAT E-BAYER | Buyer: | Aug-29-13 11:18 | |
| Canoe Sponsons - Flotation Strips - Bumpers - Stainless Steel Harware (#111108630535) | US $99.00 | View Item |