SB 17
The Silverbirch SB17 is a spacious, highly stable 17ft open canoe built for group paddling, centres, clubs and demanding hire use.
Fully customisable with a choice of colours, seating layouts and seat styles, it can be configured around your exact requirements.
Silverbirch SB17 Canoe – Stable, Spacious and Fully Customisable
The Silverbirch SB17 Canoe is a spacious and exceptionally stable 17ft open canoe designed for demanding, frequent use. Developed for outdoor centres, canoe clubs and rental fleets, it is an excellent choice for organisations and paddlers who prioritise reassuring stability, carrying space and long-term durability.
With its high level of primary stability, the SB17 provides a secure and confidence-inspiring platform on the water. Its spacious design makes it particularly well suited to group paddling, carrying larger loads and trips where additional room is essential. Whether it is being used for instruction, commercial hire or shared adventures, the SB17 is designed to accommodate a wide range of paddlers and practical requirements.
Fully Customisable to Suit Your Requirements
One of the SB17’s key advantages is that the canoe can be fully customised at the point of order to suit its intended use.
Choose from a range of colours within the Silverbirch palette and configure the canoe with two, three or four seats. Seating options include durable purpose-made polyethylene seats, traditional wooden seats or wood-and-web seats.
This flexibility allows the SB17 to be configured for different applications, from a hard-working centre or rental canoe to a spacious boat for clubs, groups and loaded canoe trips.
Durable Duracore Plus Construction
The SB17 is manufactured in Silverbirch Duracore Plus, a material developed alongside the canoe to deliver increased resilience and durability.
According to Silverbirch, Duracore Plus provides a 200% increase in stiffness and impact resistance compared with its standard Duracore laminate, alongside increased UV protection and improved long-term durability. This makes the SB17 particularly suitable for professional environments where a canoe may be used regularly by different paddlers and needs to withstand the demands of repeated use.
Duracore Plus prioritises strength and resilience over low carrying weight, making it a practical choice for centres, clubs and commercial operators that need a dependable canoe built for a demanding working life.
Who Is the Silverbirch SB17 For?
The Silverbirch SB17 is particularly well suited to:
- Outdoor education and activity centres
- Canoe clubs and training providers
- Commercial canoe-hire fleets
- Group and shared paddling
- Trips requiring additional space or carrying capacity
- Paddlers who value stability and durability over minimum weight
A Dependable Canoe Built Around You
Stable, spacious and highly configurable, the Silverbirch SB17 is built for paddlers and organisations that need more from their canoe. Its durable Duracore Plus construction is designed to cope with regular use, while the extensive choice of colours, seating layouts and seat materials allows each canoe to be tailored to its intended role.
For centres, clubs, hire operators or paddlers searching for a durable 17ft open canoe with excellent primary stability and flexible outfitting, the Silverbirch SB17 offers a capable and customisable solution.
Deliveries
Once your boat is ready, delivery to mainland UK addresses usually takes 10–15 days. We'll contact you to arrange a convenient delivery date and time once production is complete.
If you prefer, you're also welcome to collect your canoe directly from our facility.
See full delivery details here.
Warranty
Typically, 1st quality boats have a 2-year manufacturer’s warranty for personal use (B2C) – covering defects in materials and workmanship under normal use.
Click here to see full warranty details.
Specifications
| Quality | Premium or 2nd Quality |
| Colour | Lime Green or Cherry or Forest or Electric Blue or Firebrick Red or Vivid Yellow or Burnt Orange or Purple or Candy Pink or Jet Black |
| Internal Colour | White (standard) or Vivid Yellow or Burnt Orange or Lime Green or Electric Blue or Candy Pink or Red |
| Trim Height | Low-Line Trim or High-line trim |
| End grabs | No rope end grabs or Yellow with black fleck or Orange with black fleck |
| Seating | 3 x wood/web seats or 4 x wood/web seats or 3 x p.e. seats or 4 x p.e. seats or 2 x p.e. seats with 2 x thwarts |
| Lacing | None or Laced and Stitched Ends or Full Length Lacing |
| Lacing Colour | None or Black or Floro Yellow or Orange or Red or Electric Blue or Pink or White or Purple or Grey or Lime Green or Forest Green |
| Logos & branding | None or Silverbirch MIG graphics |
| Outfitting | fully outfitted or Stacked shells on a pallet |
| Construction | Duracore plus |
| Gunwales | Vinyl Gunwales |
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