A promise is a promise

[Dave Wermuth]

I promised Kathy I'd post a photo of a canoe that is very close to dust. Well I finally was in the neighborhood where this canoe is on it's final journey.

 

[Kathryn Klos]

Very Cool

Thanks, Dave...The old canoe is sheer poetry!

I plan to print off pictures to use the next time we do a WCHA canoe display at a sporting show. I like pointing out to people that a wooden boat is "green", even if it's red or orange: you can restore them over and over, or let them go into the ground.

 

[davelanthier]

Doesn't look that bad. Some one should acquire it before it's to late.

 

[Dave Wermuth]

well--

It is just sitting at the edge of the road. Other than canvas, paint, varnish, planking, ribs, thwarts, gunnells, and decks it's in pretty good shape.

I am of the thought to let the earth have it back.

did someone mention poetry?

there are flowers in the canoe that I go by every day
Sometimes i stop to pick some and then go on my way
and should my day be foul or even it it's fair
i can gaze upon the flowers and know the canoe is still there.

Dave - ism

 

[Kathryn Klos]

Brilliant!

 

[Splinter]

Not a total loss

It actually looks in better shape than 2 I already restored and one that is yet to be restored. But, I'd hate to disrupt a garden. Anyone see what kind it was?

 

[Kathryn Klos]

Looks Canadian... Dave could maybe list it on eBay as a *rare* Vintage Cedar Canoe, Possibly Peterborough or Chestnut--- and he'd be more correct than some on there... especially the "rare" part.

 

[Dave Wermuth]

My guess

My guess is that it is Canadian canoe company. It looked Canandian to me. was not able to chek the stems for numbers. :-]
some of the canvas is there and one deck is original.

 

[davelanthier]

The babiche seats mounted high, close to the stern and the inwale caps indicate that it is a Quebec Huron style canoe although most had thick,heart shaped decks. Don't bother digging to find numbers, they didn't have any.