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I'm restoring a canoe by an unknown builder that seems to be a Maine guide canoe from about 1900. It will not be a completely faithful restoration as the canoe originally had closed gunwales, and I am going with open gunwales. But at some point I need to decide about seats. Earlier...

Hi all, I recently rescued an Old Town Penobscot (1980's model) that had been rigged for sailing. I assume this was an after-market sailing kit since I can't find any evidence of any other royalex boats from that era being sold as sail canoes. I posted about it on the paddling.com forum and a...

I can't believe I've never wrote down measurements before! I've got a bunch of thwarts I've accumulated over the years, and I've got a pair of new seats I made last year. But none of thwarts nor the seats seem to fit in the 1942 16' Yankee nor the 1938 16' Otca I've been working on! If I had...

Got bored with the snow & cold so I refinished this rowing seat & foot brace. It came with a 1906 OT HW project I picked up a few months ago. The seat straddles the rails which measure 12 7/8" wide & 48" long. The seat itself measures 15 1/2" wide & 14 5/8" deep and can be placed anywhere...

greetings wooden canoe aficionados! i am searching for some plans/mathematics of how to re-lace, with rawhide lacing, the standard pattern for an already drilled wooden bow seat...17 holes across & 7 holes down...on a beautiful old cedarwood canoe... i've never done it before, this is my...

Anybody have some plans for making 'old style' caned seat backs? I intend to use it on a PennYan Rainbow - or whatever else I might acquire in the future. If you look at this link you'll see a rather nice design for an Adirondack Guide that'll show what I'm talking about (...

I'm rebuilding the seat frame on a Kennebec and I'm wondering what kind of glue to use. The seats are maple, doweled together.