Gil Cramer
The wooden canoe Shop, Inc.
This is an update on the exceedingly ugly fiberglass covered blue canoe that was @ QWS last Sat. Since I couldn't give it to Mike, it came back to the shop on top of the van. The fiberglass was easily separated from the hull and left very little resin. The seats, keelson,( added by somebody to cover all the ribs cracked by spreading the canoe), thwart, and keel remnant were all removed. The canoe appears to be a late 20's Old Town HW 16' long. It's actually better than it might have been. Structurally,all it needs is new decks,inwales, outwales, seats, thwarts. stems, almost all ribs, and lots of planking. And everybody who saw it thought it was junk!!!! It's Way too good of a canoe to be used for bookshelves, which was suggested by at least one person.( not a WCHA member.)