Recent content by bluedcanoed

Woods packs gone

I have for sale a 15 ft long straight spruce rail for strip building, enough clear long western red cedar to make strips for at least one canoe, 2 x 8" clear white spruce 16 ft long and 1 x 8 clear ash also. Brass 3/8 " oval for bang strips, brass ring, brass wood and machine screws, a big...

Sportspal

Pretty scary, seeing all that wax melting in a shallow frying pan, with open flame, inside a building !

Chestnut guide special with wooden rowing platform

Link Canoe Gananaoque Ontario

I will donate these two books. Bob

When I first met Wally Schaber in Ottawa in the early 1970s' he invited a group of canoe trippers to his parents home and demonstrated, on the dining room floor, waterproofing duffle with a 4 x 10 foot sheet of 4 mil plastic wrapped up around your sleeping bag and extra clothes tied up and put...

Chestnut guide specials were also close-ribbed.

oromocto

wood-canvas canoe for sale in Canada. I'm only about 5 miles from Trent University where the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association Assembly took place. All materials to put together again included for $1500 Canadian.(pretty cheap to US buyers!)

I live only 5 miles from Trent University; too soon to make firm plans this early, but I might be able to provide some accomodation next July.

Four - Chestnut cruiser 17', Chestnut lightweight 11', Grumman 13', Voyageur 12'. Bob

100 years ago a lot of paddlers did not weigh between 220 and 300 lbs They did not need such deep canoes. Bob