Help to identify canoe?

JohnCee · Saturday at 10:02 PM

I've had this canoe for more than 30 years and do not know who manufacturer is. Their is now Hull ID plate and any other identifying numbers. It is a 16 ft fiberglass, 34 " beam. The deck has a stamp in the metal , I imagine the logo from the maker. I have not been able to track. It looks like a W with an F fused to it. Does anyone recognize this?

Glenn MacGrady · Saturday at 11:48 PM

John, welcome to site membership! Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Many of the site's technical features are explained in Features: Help and How-To Running Thread. We look forward to your participation in our canoe community.

I don't recognize that logo or tri-keel hull, and 16' x 34" are pretty generic hull specs. Given that you're in Nova Scotia, it's likely Canadian made, so maybe one of our Canadian members recognizes it.

JohnCee · Sunday at 7:04 AM

Glenn MacGrady said:
John, welcome to site membership! Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Many of the site's technical features are explained in Features: Help and How-To Running Thread. We look forward to your participation in our canoe community.

I don't recognize that logo or tri-keel hull, and 16' x 34" are pretty generic hull specs. Given that you're in Nova Scotia, it's likely Canadian made, so mayben one of our Canadian members recognizes it.

Thanks for your response, it likely is Canadian made, as was purchased in Central Ontario, near Algonquin Park. Funny there is no HIN.

Benson Gray · Sunday at 9:27 AM

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 system in 1981. This canoe may be older than that. Please let us know if you figure it out. Good luck,

Benson

JohnCee · Sunday at 9:45 AM

Thanks for that. It must be, as no other identifying feature. I'm lovingly patching some holes, redoing fiberglass on each of the 3 keels, then will paint her red again. She should be good for another 45 years after that!

Gamma1214 · Sunday at 9:57 PM

Welcome to the site John. I'm no help at all with identification but I always appreciate anyone who repairs well-used (or even mistreated) equipment. Please consider posting repair threads so that we can follow along, live vicariously and, perhaps, some future tripper might learn from your experience.

ppine · Monday at 11:50 AM

I can't imagine any canoe company with three keels molded into the hull would last very long. Probably an early fiberglass model from the 1970s. Chopper gun and polyester resin.

Steve in Idaho · 2025-07-10T14:39:25-0400

Holy Cow Canoes have been made with three keels like that. I think they're still in business. Only place I've seen them for sale new is Ebay.

SouthernKevlar · 2025-07-10T17:52:57-0400

There was a post on Canadian Canoe Routes (myccr.com) by "cambridgeguy13" back in 2012 that asked for identification of a canoe with "WF" on the bow and stern decks. Unfortunately I could not access the photos of that canoe so I could not see the deck or the hull. Unless it is happens to be the same canoe popping up 12 years later, there may be at least one other WF canoe out there.

The folks on myccr.com couldn't identify it either.

Glenn MacGrady · 2025-07-11T14:21:36-0400

SouthernKevlar said:
There was a post on Canadian Canoe Routes (myccr.com) by "cambridgeguy13" back in 2012 that asked for identification of a canoe with "WF" on the bow and stern decks. Unfortunately I could not access the photos of that canoe so I could not see the deck or the hull. Unless it is happens to be the same canoe popping up 12 years later, there may be at least one other WF canoe out there.

The folks on myccr.com couldn't identify it either.

Here are the photos from that thread. In the first photo the owner outlined the "WF" initials in Photoshop to make it more visible through the overlying paint. No one could identify the canoe, but some speculated the "WF" stamped on the deck could be the initials of the owner or of a livery.

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