Benson Gray

The home page includes the erjones@paddlestats.net email address who might be willing to provide a copy. Good luck, Benson

I made the list although it confused me with a Ben Gray who was racing after I had stopped in the late 1990s. It does confirm that I...

2025 WCHA Assembly Salute

The official Coast Guard site at https://uscgboating.org/content/manufacturers-identification-detail.php?id=11548 shows that Scott's...

The hull identification number (HIN) just below the rail on the starboard stern can probably answer most of your questions. Can you...

The link below has more about the canoe from 2010 if you haven't found this already. Benson...

Hi Benson, thanks for your insight on Shaw and Tenney! Our son is a forestry professor at U Maine so I have had the privilege of talking...

Nice paddle, Shaw & Tenney has a long history. They advertised 1858 as their founding date and as being the "Successor to T. J. Shaw &...

Bert Call photograph taken c. 1930 at Chesuncook Lake, Maine. The three young men are looking east at storm clouds gathering over the...

It has been said that one feature of very long decks on a canoe was that they forced your date to be closer to you. Dan Miller's Wooden...

A well equipped courting canoe in the 1920s would include a parasol, a flag, a Victrola, many pillows, a Carbide light, a back rest, a...

The basic oval Peterborough decal is available at the link below but it is not a 'water slide' style like the original. The 75th year...

The various historical canvas filler formulas listed at the link below may interest you. Nice canoe and good luck with the project...

The U.S. Coast Guard mandated that all canoes in the U.S.A. have hull identification numbers in 1972, and Canada implemented a similar...

This was also true in the Belle Isle area near Detroit as shown below. Benson