This is an AA grade Old Town sailing canoe with a centerboard and four foot long decks from 1927. I dropped by the Smallboat Shop (http://www.smallboat-shop.com/) to visit with Dan and Linda Eaton before the Maine Canoe Symposium last weekend. They are restoring this very unusual canoe for the Lovell Historical Society (http://www.lovellhistoricalsociety.org/). More pictures of the canoe before the restoration are available at http://lovell.pastperfectonline.com/photo/CE649CCC-4CD3-44B0-9679-852466875619 and the article at https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/bad-eats/more-on-don-dickerman/ has some information about the original owner. The sail is a traditional lateen rig and the tiller was probably not installed at the factory.
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