Any suggestions where to look?
Lots of good suggestions, and no good ones, all at the same time!
This first list is builders who appear on the Historic CD that built all-wood lapstrake canoes, many of them in smoothskin.
Bowdish - lapstrake 1889
Detroit Boat Works - smooth lap, 3 planks per side
Douglas - smooth lap with ribband
Partelow - smooth seam
Racine Boat Company
Racine Boat Manufacturing Company
Racine Yacht and Boat Works
J.R. Robertson
J.H. Rushton
Skaneateles Boat Company
W.P. Stephens
This second list is additional builders not on the CD that also built all-wood canoes, again many in smoothskin lapstrake...
A. Bain & Co.
J.H. Bradley & Co.
Fulton Pleasure Boat Co.
Wm. Jarvis (sailing canoes only?)
Minnesota Boat and Power Co.
St. Lawrence River Skiff, Canoe & Steam Launch Co.
Spalding St. Lawrence Boat Company
H.M. Sprague
St. Lawrence Boat Works
Threehouse
Watertown Boat and Canoe
Wilbur and Wheelock
The third list would be Canadian builders, but I didn't try to list them here... not as likely, yet possible all the same.
There is also a fourth list, which does not show up here, because I either forgot about them, or don't know about them yet...
Helpful as a tire jack on a hot air balloon, eh?
Cheers,
Dan, who gets to see next week a decked lapstrake canoe I bought last fall, maker of which may never be known....