nickb
WCHA member #8947
So I recently purchased an old wood/canvas canoe, with the intention of having it restored. The gentlman I bought it from has stored it indoors for the past decade. The person he bought it from didn't know what kind of canoe it was, but told him it was over 50 years old.
I don't know the particulars - I was told it was probably made by a manufacturer, as opposed to an individual, and possibly dates back to the 30's or more. It is roughly 17 feet long, and seems to offer a fairly wide and blunt profile to the water. The upsweep of the bow and stern is slightly more abrupt than on some of the other canvas boats I've seen. It employs 3 main shaped thwarts (the center thwart actually is not a portaging yoke) and two more small thwarts just in from the decks (possibly as "handles"?). The shape of the deck itself is a simple rounded "W" - not the more severe block shape of the Old Town or the heart of the Seliga. Unfortunately I can't find any serial number stamped on the stems.
I'll include some pictures, and hopefully that will help. I'll most likely fix it up regardless, it would just be interesting to find out where this thing might have come from.
Thanks so much for humoring yet another novice canoe historian.
nick
I don't know the particulars - I was told it was probably made by a manufacturer, as opposed to an individual, and possibly dates back to the 30's or more. It is roughly 17 feet long, and seems to offer a fairly wide and blunt profile to the water. The upsweep of the bow and stern is slightly more abrupt than on some of the other canvas boats I've seen. It employs 3 main shaped thwarts (the center thwart actually is not a portaging yoke) and two more small thwarts just in from the decks (possibly as "handles"?). The shape of the deck itself is a simple rounded "W" - not the more severe block shape of the Old Town or the heart of the Seliga. Unfortunately I can't find any serial number stamped on the stems.
I'll include some pictures, and hopefully that will help. I'll most likely fix it up regardless, it would just be interesting to find out where this thing might have come from.
Thanks so much for humoring yet another novice canoe historian.
nick