Beautiful boat Chuck!!
Looks a bit like a White Guide ? modified? I have never seen one in the flesh but been drooling over them for years.
Where we want this boat for specifically for is our Noosa Everglades.
Here is a link to a commercial mob that run canoe safaries throughout the area. They pretty much have a monopoly on all the best put ins and my experiences with them leads me to think they are not very nice people. I won't use them or their facilities. They think they own the area (and all the national park surrounding their enterprise)
http://www.elanda.com.au/bigmap.htm
Easiest put in is at Elanda Point and then about a 5 mile paddle along the northern shore of Lake Catharaba to the start of the upper Noosa River and Everglades and from there, about 25 miles or so is paddleable upstream to the various wilderness camp sites.
There is a 4 wheel drive track to Harry's Hut that is well into the upper Noosa River, but it really is a goat track and can take several hours in wet weather to reach the put in. There are nearly allways a couple of dozen foriegn back-packer types camped there and they are allways on the bum for anything they can get. I wouldn't like to leave my car there.
A sea kayak is ideal for the lake crossing but all the take outs up stream are very steep too and involve climbing out of a kayak into about 4 feet of water. The mad buggers have installed vertical log landins at most of the camp sights that have made things allmost impossible for kayakers.
A big canoe with pretty good choppy water capability is a better alternative I think. A small motor on the back for the crossing would be a bonus. The lake is pretty big and very shallow (average depth is only about 4 feet) The prevailing SE winds can make the northern shoreline chop up pretty bad at times.
