Benson Gray

It has been speculated that some of the paddles from the Pacific with pointed ends may have been also used as weapons. The link below...

I actually find the opposite is true, I've seen far too many ribbed canoes crack right at the rib when hitting a rock because the hull...

My understanding is that any place on a fiberglass canoe hull where there is a rapid transition from a very stiff area (like a thick...

Benson, I think there must be an error in the link to Jerry's page on the 50# canoe models. I have an Old Town 50# from 1938 and the...

Yes, there was clearly an error on that page so I have replaced it with the specifications from the 1938 catalog in my previous message...

Wow, I knew that the Allagash has some silly rules but this one seems clearly absurd. The page at the link below requires the width of...

See the link below for another perspective. Benson https://brfisher.substack.com/p/why-wood

This image was shared on the sailing group in Facebook by Holger David Kelm with "oh oh" as the caption. It is from the Kip Marina at...

The link is below, which requires a Facebook account. The chart at https://woodencanoemuseum.org/builder-history/b-n-morris dates the...

My guess is that this canoe might be a Kennebec Torpedo model as shown on the following page from their 1922 catalog. This would be...

This storage problem was even worse with wooden canoes that had to sit for a few months while the filler cured. These would...

Old Town canoes were frequently stacked floor to ceiling and wall to wall in large storage areas. This was a classic first in, last out...

Better late than never? The Old Town canoe with serial number 197616 is a 12 foot long Chipewyan model that weighed 45 pounds. It was...

If you are really concerned about toxicity then you may want to consider a wood and canvas canoe. These probably require fewer toxic...