1952 Old Town H.W. with low ends.

[Dylancanoe]

I am restoring a hw 16' with low ends and was wondering if anyone knows how common the low ends are? or if any one has seen any?

 

[Jan Bloom]

I saw one once and thought it was really nice. The lower ends really look good. I was told that they where made for the Boy Scout camps.

 

[JMETZ]

Here's my 41 Hw with low ends. It is a boy scout camp model with "thwarts in place of seats"

 

[Benson Gray]

Special Old Town canoes with low ends were not common but hardly unique. A quick search of these forums for "low end" finds 61 messages where this phrase is used and most of them reference Old Town canoes with this feature. The Old Town build record database sample described at http://www.wcha.org/ot_records/ includes 10 examples of "low end" canoes. This sample is a bit small for making an accurate estimate of the total but a simple extrapolation shows that about 228 of these were built. The information at http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/models.html has more examples of using this data to estimate Old Town's production totals. Please reply here if this doesn't answer your question. Thanks,

Benson

 

[Dan Lindberg]

I have a 17' 1950 HW with the Low End's, it was originally bought by Sommers Canoe Base out of Ely.

I sure was excited when I 1st saw it, as for a brief time thought I had a rare 17' Guide.

Dan