Kathy & Denis,
I was just funnin and continuing with the levity of this thread when I , in jest, suggested bringing the old girl to you fine folks. Believe me this is one horribly messed up canoe!!!! Just about every rib is broken, inwales are broken, patched, rotted, covered with fiberglass, interior heavily painted, decks rotted and fiberglass slathered all over them at the tips to hold the ends together, etc., etc. ad nauseum. Even Andre (The Pyro) would not want to take this restoration project on!!! Being a gift from a well meaning friend, I did not want to immediately trash it so I hung it 13' high in my fabric shed. Being so high and difficult ( read that dangerous) to get it down, it has been easy to forget about it til now as I needed the space to get a much better canoe in out of the weather. Yesterday afternoon (after reading the thread & the build sheet) was yard clean up time (we have a large family get together this coming Monday for a cook out ) and it went into the burn pile with all sorts of other odds & ends of scrap lumber, brush and other burnable debris) so it is a done deal!!!
Kathy and Denis, again thanx for the re-invitation to visit. Will surely take you up on it if I'm ever out that direction.
Ed