Old Town Sailing

[JClearwater]

Of the several models that Old Town listed over the years was there one in particular that they felt was best suited for sailing? Length? Thanks.

Jim C.

 

[Dave Wermuth]

Yep

i am pretty sure it's the HW.

 

[Benson Gray]

The Old Town catalogs did not make a recommendation. Longer canoes were were usually preferred for sailing since they tended to be faster with 18 foot models being very common. The build record database described at http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/records/ indicates that about two percent of the total production as shown at http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/records/options.jpg were shipped with sailing rigs. This is a bit small for accurate estimations but 46% of these were the HW model, 20% Otca, 8% Charles River, 7% Guide, 3% Fifty Pound, and the remaining 16% were scattered between ten other models. This distribution closely matches the general model distributions shown at http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/records/models.jpg and http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/models.html as you might expect. Reply here if this doesn't answer your question,

Benson

 

[JClearwater]

Thank you

Thank you Dave and Benson,
I am not a big sailing kind of guy - I don't even own a sailing canoe, but it is an interesting aspect of the hobby that someday maybe I'll have to give a try. Jim C.