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I always liked what you can do with these old canoes,

Nicely done Patrick, I have these two maps on the door and wall of my shop, when I find myself dreaming of trips I’d like to take, NW Ontario and the North Maine Woods are just a few feet away.

When I was 7 in 1955 my family spent a week or so at a friends camp on Muskrat Lake in Cobden, Ontario. They had a canoe but I was stuck in a row boat with a 10’ rope tied to dock. I have this picture of my brothers and me in a 16’ Plycraft canoe. (I’m in the bow with a ash beavertail paddle of...

Very sorry to hear this, my condolences.

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Thanks for the link.

It is. We moved to Maine to be near our daughter during Covid, it was a tough time to move as there were few homes for sale. My wife loved this house we found, I was on the fence till I saw the single car garage added to the side of the oversized 2 car garage. After some insulation with pine...

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That’s some great stuff happening at your school, both those projects should be good learning experiences for the students. The tiny house could lead to some real life changing results, both for the students and recipients. Fighting the elements makes for a tough environment to learn in, I hope...

The green canoe is a 16’ Chestnut Cruiser, just a narrower version of the Chestnut Prospector. Above it it that 1920’s era 16’ Chestnut pleasure canoe with the same “Prospector” stem.

Yea, not yet. 😉

Headwaters Canoe, We have a neat comparison of three different canoes of the same model in the shop this week - probably the most famous model: the 16' Prospector. On the left side of the first photo is a 16' Prospector built by Chestnut. We don't know which form this was built on at Chestnut...

Nice trip report. I have done a few trips in and around that area, but my last trips were mostly north around circuit 77. Thanks for pleasant memories.

I am lucky to have a single car garage attached to side of my house that I have converted into a canoe shop with heat. I have been off and on busy this fall working on a few projects that I mentioned on the site previously. This old Wenonah Spirt11 is finished and I was supposed to deliver it to...

Well, I went with Jim’s suggestion and picked up a set. I went with a bigger dowel and carefully drilled out new holes with a hand power drill. Not perfect but pretty good. I used some Titebond III and clamps. My repair is the bottom frame, hopefully with age the new replacement part will...

At what point is our current administration going to admit his policy of open membership has serious faults. The site is being hacked on a regular basis, maybe a little less freestyle and a little more finding out what guys like “guidestartup80” know about canoes. I embarrassed and disappointed...