Gil Cramer
The wooden canoe Shop, Inc.
Does anyone know if Kennebec installed very small, apprx. 1/4" X3/8", strips under the "D" shaped outwales on some of their canoes in the 1920's? I have come across both strips and evidence of strips nailed below the outwales on 3 different Kennebec canoes. All have had "D" shaped outwales. Both Kennebec canoes now in the shop have either a strip or nail holes in the correct locations. One was built in 1920 and the other in 1923. I don't know when the third one was built since it left before there was easy access to the Kennebec records.