Help me know about my canoe

kjintemann · 2025-06-14T23:17:16-0400

Just bought this canoe at a garage sale. I have no idea what brand or species it is. It is fiberglass, green, wood trim on the rims (gunwales?), nylon webbing for seats, 15.5 long... appreciate the help. And if you have advice on how to spic and span it up, I wouldn't turn it down

Gamma1214 · 2025-06-15T00:23:22-0400

Looks like a good find. Unless it was build prior to 1972, there should be a hull number (probably) stamped into the stern (rear) of the port (left) side. If you can find that, there are many here that can decipher it.

memaquay · 2025-06-15T07:00:33-0400

Could be any one of several generic fiberglass canoes that were mass produced. However, at some point in its life, somebody did a reasonably good job putting wooden trim on it. The condition of the wood doesn't look too bad, sand it well and apply either oil or varnish and it will come back to life. The old lawn chair webbing is interesting, probably indestructible, but in my opinion, not very appealing visually. Overall, looks to be in good condition, and should give you many years of fun.

scoutergriz · 2025-06-15T08:06:57-0400

memaquay said:
Could be any one of several generic fiberglass canoes that were mass produced. However, at some point in its life, somebody did a reasonably good job putting wooden trim on it. The condition of the wood doesn't look too bad, sand it well and apply either oil or varnish and it will come back to life. The old lawn chair webbing is interesting, probably indestructible, but in my opinion, not very appealing visually. Overall, looks to be in good condition, and should give you many years of fun.

back in the 70's and 8's there were a lot of cottage industry boat makers that used that webbing for their seats, it had no uv protection at all and would literally turn to dust in 5-6 years, those seats look like they were rewebbed recently

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