Canoe paddler
Curious about Wooden Canoes
I just purchased this 17' canoe. 5 broken ribs, missing seats, & needs canvas, but no rotten wood. I was told on an earier thread that it could be an Old Town, Carleton, or Kennebec. The canoe does have diamond bolts holding the thwarts in place & "ghosts" of the diamond bolts where the seat were located. The canoe has open gunwales. I can not see anything left of a decal on the bow deck, but the varnish is mostly gone. The serial number is stamped on the bow & stern stem with a space & then 17. The decks are 20" long & have a small pc. of wood bent around the inside edge that is just proud of the deck surface & fit into the inner gunwale. At one time the canoe appears to have had a center thwart. Its missing now but there are 2 screws going from the inner gunwale into the out gunwale on both sides of the canoe & a bolt hole through the inner gunwale, but this does not have a "goast" of a diamond bolt, so perhaps this missing center thwart was not original. Any help in identifying this canoe is greatly appreciated.