huron

I purchase a canoe listed as "possibly" a Peterborough Champlain Pleasure model but not certain of model. I pulled the model number list from the woodencanoemuseum.org site pages. The canoes listed with dimensions 16' X 33" X 12" are Algonquin, Huron and Champlain but the serial number on the...

Hello All of a sudden, over 30 years after my last canoe trip, I am the proud owner of a 1973 Tremblay Huron 16 footer. It has been stored for many years safely in a barn out of the sun and dry. It is in what I think is excellent shape. I would like to keep it that way. After doing a bunch...

I'm just starting to look at a canoe I picked up a few years ago that's been identified by WCHA'ers as a Huron. Note the arrow-head deck. My question is: how were the outside stem areas treated on these things? As you can see from the pics the stems are quite blunt shaped and are sort of...

I'll soon be starting on restoration of a 14' Huron. And I'm thinking I'll need to replace the inwales. From the pics notice how the inwales are straight at the center of the canoe - for me this really spoils the canoe's 'lines' so-to-speak. Sure - this may have been caused by someone...

This is my first time posting, and really my first time doing anything like this (canoe restoration wise). I recently got a 14' 1986 Huron canoe from Great Canadian. Overall the boat is in great shape (although from reading around I hear they might not be the greatest construction, but there's...