cheemaun

[samb]

I thought I’d show off my new Cheemaun – exactly 6 months in the making and launched today.
My blog of the build can be seen here
http://www.songofthepaddle.co.uk/for...46521-New-boat

As an aside, it might surprise you that this is only the 6th cedar canvas canoe that I’ve seen in the flesh in my life. They really are unusual in the uk. The last picture shows the fourth one I ever saw, owned by me until earlier today and previously seen here
http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.ph...c-canoe-please

 

[divedog]

Well Done!

 

[Jerry Fruetel]

Very pretty! Thanks for posting. FYI-- I wasn't able to open either link.

 

[samb]

Don't know what happened to them.
Try this one and this one. Hope these work!
Sam

 

[Jerry Fruetel]

Success!-- Thanks.

 

[Flat cap Andy]

Hey Sam
I wonder how many wood canvas canoes there are I the uk? And well done for increasing the number by one.
Andy

 

[Benson Gray]

I can only guess how many are in the U. K. now but the Old Town build record below indicates that one shipped there in 1913 with twenty catalogs in hopes that other people would order more. It would be great to know if this one still exists.

Benson

 

[Flat cap Andy]

I know my Dad was paddling them in the 1950s in Scotland, so there must be a few imported originals still around. I think that most of the UKs 'Canadian' Canoes, as we called them, were built with tradition boat build methods. So that leads me to another questions: Who built the first commerical wood canvas canoe in the UK and when?