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To come back to this after a few years. Paddlinhal and I completed the Dobsy Carry trying to follow Fannie Hardy Eckstorm's... -
Benson Gray replied to the thread Adirondack Freestyle Canoe Symposium July 17-20, 2025.This is happening in conjunction with the Annual Assembly of the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association. The link below has more details...
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I will never get tired of seeing a wooden canoe in a scene like that. Beautiful. Jim
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This morning in the Poconos.
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Greetings from the UK. I’m a retired teacher and have been paddling around 25 years now. I live in Norwich UK which is on the edge of...
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Benson Gray replied to the thread Side flotation: How it helps emptying water and assisting re-entry.A slightly related topic is that Old Town and other canoe builders have promoted the benefits of sponsons for a long time. The page...
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Benson Gray replied to the thread Other than the USA and Canada, what country has the most open canoes?.Yes, but this is from a sample that has less than three percent of the total so it could be a statistical anomaly. The sampling...
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Benson Gray replied to the thread Other than the USA and Canada, what country has the most open canoes?.The Old Town Canoe Company Build Record Archive Project described at https://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/records/ is another data...
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Benson Gray reacted to Robin's post in the thread Other than the USA and Canada, what country has the most open canoes? with
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With all due respect to samb, I was thinking England. They have an active website “Song of the Paddle” which states its purpose is for... -
Benson Gray replied to the thread Other than the USA and Canada, what country has the most open canoes?.I agree with Robin. The Wooden Canoe Heritage Association's historical membership totals show the following order: U.S.A., Canada...
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Benson Gray replied to the thread So, what old item do you still use?.I have a canoe from 1901 that I use occasionally. Another one from circa 1904 is shorter and lighter so it gets used more often. They...
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Benson Gray reacted to Idiot Savant's post in the thread Book review: two books on the history of the canoe. with Like.
A while back I ordered two books, from Amazon, on canoe history. Canoes, a natural history in North America and The Canoe, an...
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Benson Gray replied to the thread Skegs on canoes?.This thread made me curious about the history of asymmetric hull designs in small boats. I didn't find an authoritative source but the...
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Many of us here own multiple canoes, for a variety of reasons. I'd like to think it is because each canoe does something better than the...
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I'm not an historian, but I agree with Benson on this when it comes to all around general purpose canoes. Specialty boats with swede...
