ticonderoga
"Just one more"
I've been looking for an old Town 50lber for years and found one yesterday in good shape on CL. I got it from the original owners grandson who said it spent it's entire life in the Adirondacks and went to Alaska twice in '53 and '56. A great back story! It was shipped in 1941 and was ordered with outside stems and a keel. I will be restoring it in a couple of months and am not crazy about putting keels on new canvas. Could you order a canoe with outside stems and no keel or did one require the other? If I don't put the keel back on would I just taper the outside stem to the bottom of the canoe? Thanks for any advice or pictures.