Unfortunately not. Back when I first found them, I was working at a shop that sold canoes in my spare time when I wasn't playing music with the band. I told my boss that he should try them. He called them and they said the initial order would be 12 boats. He didn't want to take the risk.
Not long afterwards, I happened to be talking to a guy I knew who owned another backpacking shop in town that didn't do much with boats, mostly just climbing and backpacking stuff. I mentioned them and that I thought the wood trim/fiberglass hull thing had potential. He decided to call them up, they said 12 boats, he said "How about 2 boats?" and they said OK. The first two were my Malecite and his TW Special. That guy, by the way, was Charlie Wilson, later to become Charlie Wilson the freestyle canoeist.
I eventually bought part of the shop that I was working at and at that point it wasn't terribly cool to be paddling the competition's brand of canoes, so the Malecite got sold. I had also just picked up a dealership for the Hazen-designed strippers from Wilderness Boats, which are among my all-time favorite canoes. About 20 years later, I was working for a Mad River dealer and always meant to pick up another Malecite, but just never got around to it. I don't know what all they're building these days, but the stuff I see at shows and in shops looks extremely plastic and frankly, rather crappy. In many ways, I could say the same thing about most of the offerings I see from Old Town. I guess we've come to the point where you can't afford to be be a big, production canoe company unless you can squirt them out like candy corn or garbage cans (although We-No-Nah still does a pretty good job with their composite line). I might have to start a "Fiberglass Canoe Heritage Association".....
