Directions for canvasing a canoe (right side up method)
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Mark Adams
all wood nut
Skip,
There are a huge number of members in MI. Perhaps if you posted your locale, someone will step up.
There are a huge number of members in MI. Perhaps if you posted your locale, someone will step up.
Greg Nolan
enthusiast
Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jre2mwlYTf0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTTymdnHojk
Both of the above were made by, and show work done by, members of the WCHA.
There are also a number of good written, illustrated sources of sound information.
There are two good books about canoe restoration which you would do well to get, or at least look at -- "The Wood and Canvas Canoe: A Complete Guide to its History, Construction, Restoration, and Maintenance" by Rollin Thurlow and Jerry Stelmok, and/or "Building the Maine Guide Canoe" by Jerry Stelmok.
The first is often called the "bible" of canoe repair, restoration, and maintenance; the second is an excellent study of the wooden/canvas canoe and its construction. These are available from the WCHA store, are often on eBay, or from Amazon. “The Wood and Canvas Canoe” is currently out of print, and so can be hard to get. I am told that Jerry Stelmok has some copies for sale: Island Falls Canoe Company, Atkinson, ME. Email: Islfalls@IslandFallsCanoe.com Your library may have it, and if not, should be able to get it through the interlibrary loan service.
Back issues of Wooden Canoe, the WCHA Journal, have some good articles -- back issues are available from the WCHA online store
( http://store.wcha.org/home.php ). Number 74 has an article by Roy Allman about canvassing with the canoe right-side-up; numbers 76 and 77 have a 2-part article about canvassing with the canoe upside down by Chris Merigold.
The online store also has a collection of magazine article reprints on rebuilding/restoring canoes -- “Rebuilding the Wood & Canvas Canoe” -- for $3 -- http://store.wcha.org/Rebuilding-the-Wood-and-Canvas-Canoe.html This is well worth $3 -- a number of takes on canvassing a canoe in the reprinted articles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jre2mwlYTf0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTTymdnHojk
Both of the above were made by, and show work done by, members of the WCHA.
There are also a number of good written, illustrated sources of sound information.
There are two good books about canoe restoration which you would do well to get, or at least look at -- "The Wood and Canvas Canoe: A Complete Guide to its History, Construction, Restoration, and Maintenance" by Rollin Thurlow and Jerry Stelmok, and/or "Building the Maine Guide Canoe" by Jerry Stelmok.
The first is often called the "bible" of canoe repair, restoration, and maintenance; the second is an excellent study of the wooden/canvas canoe and its construction. These are available from the WCHA store, are often on eBay, or from Amazon. “The Wood and Canvas Canoe” is currently out of print, and so can be hard to get. I am told that Jerry Stelmok has some copies for sale: Island Falls Canoe Company, Atkinson, ME. Email: Islfalls@IslandFallsCanoe.com Your library may have it, and if not, should be able to get it through the interlibrary loan service.
Back issues of Wooden Canoe, the WCHA Journal, have some good articles -- back issues are available from the WCHA online store
( http://store.wcha.org/home.php ). Number 74 has an article by Roy Allman about canvassing with the canoe right-side-up; numbers 76 and 77 have a 2-part article about canvassing with the canoe upside down by Chris Merigold.
The online store also has a collection of magazine article reprints on rebuilding/restoring canoes -- “Rebuilding the Wood & Canvas Canoe” -- for $3 -- http://store.wcha.org/Rebuilding-the-Wood-and-Canvas-Canoe.html This is well worth $3 -- a number of takes on canvassing a canoe in the reprinted articles.
