Sectional Canoes

[Rob Stevens]

Dick Persson's blog on sectional canoes compiles a lot of historical info;
http://wwwbuckhorncanoes.blogspot.ca/2016/02/sectional-canoes.html

 

[Benson Gray]

See http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?5783 for more on this topic.

Benson

 

[mccloud]

When I visited the Canadian Canoe Museum 3 or 4 years ago there was a temporary exhibit on sectional and folding canoes. I asked if they were going to put together a brochure on this exhibit, and was told no. Too bad, it would have been a great compilation of information. Attached, if I can get it to work, is the Douglas folding canoe they showed. Tom McCloud

 

[Dan Miller]

This exhibit is currently at the Antique Boat Museum in Clayton.

 

[Andre Cloutier]

On a personal note i've made many sectional canoes and always found it to be rewarding and fun.
On a more serious note, that float plane is incredible. Though state of the art at the time, i wonder how comfortable anyone would be going up in it today, wooden propeller and all.
Before someone corrects me, i guess its rightly termed a flying boat rather than float plane.

 

[mccloud]

Will the Clayton museum be putting together a brochure about sectional canoes? What is the next stop for this touring display? Tom McCloud

 

[Dan Miller]

Will the Clayton museum be putting together a brochure about sectional canoes? What is the next stop for this touring display? Tom McCloud

Almost certainly not. They are without a curator for the foreseeable future.

Next stop is probably back into storage at Peterborough.