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A sailing canoe is another option. Benson

I have a number of Old Town Canoe catalogs from the early 1900s to the 2000s and several other wooden canoe builders if anyone is looking for those. The link below shows the covers. I'm also open to trades if you have something interesting. Benson...

My brother drove a truck and trailer loaded with Old Town canoes for a few years and reports that having the canoes covered or open didn't make any noticable difference with his mileage. Snow or slush on the road would drop the mileage significantly and the canoes required much more cleaning...

No, and the large number software 'bots' which are constantly scanning everything on the internet further inflate totals like this. The Facebook 'post reach' statistics suffer from similar issues. Numbers like these need to be viewed with great suspicion and taken with a very large 'grain of...

See the link below and at https://forum.woodenboat.com/forum/misc-boat-related/125311/page4#post5912944 for my lists of wooden canoes and other small boats from many years ago. They add up quickly, Benson https://forums.wcha.org/threads/the-wooden-canoes-weve-owned.13973/

Page 10 of the 1956 Peterborough catalog at the link below has more details. Benson https://woodencanoemuseum.org/manufacturer-catalog/peterborough-canoe-company-1956

The information and pictures at the link below might interest you. N. C. Wyeth, purchased a very old bark canoe and brought it to his studio in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. There is a link to a video which shows it at the Brandywine Museum of Art. It is similar to one that is currently on...

The Old Town advertisements for the Berrigan were considerably more tame as shown below. Benson

This can be a challenge. I help manage a forum for the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association which includes a service to provide the build records for old canoes. Each one includes a request to "donate, join or renew your membership" but not everyone does. Benson

The most popular uses of these names came well after Chestnut had closed in 1979. Roger MacGregor tried to manage the trademarks for a variety of venerable Canadian canoe companies with limited success. My understanding is that Canadian trademark law limits the protection to an active business...

It appears that Chestnut was not very successful in intimidating any of their major competitors since they all continued to sell canoes like this for many years. The end of this patent dispute came in 1923 when Chestnut joined Canadian Watercraft Limited with Peterborough and the other major...

See the link below for more about these canoes and copies of their build records. Benson https://forums.wcha.org/threads/deliverance-canoe.12713/

Welcome and congratulations, this canoe looks like a modern 'strip built' example. Most of these are home made. It will have a hull identification number (HIN) on the starboard stern if it was built within the last forty years. The link at https://www.usps.org/national/safety/HIN/HIN.pdf can...

The links below have several canoe restorers and local chapters in that area who might be able to help. They may not have white oak but can probably supply white cedar rib stock that will bend well. Good luck, Benson https://www.woodencanoe.org/builders-suppliers...

It is surprising how many of the oldest bark canoes look very similar to some of the modern ones. The link below has more information about several of the earliest known bark canoes. Benson https://forums.wcha.org/threads/birchbark-canoes-and-carbon-14-dating.18630/

Welcome, the Malone LowMax trailer is described at https://maloneautoracks.com/XtraLight-LowMax.html as being 11 feet, three inches long overall. This should be fine with a single 18 foot long canoe that is centered over the tongue. Some experimentation is always a good plan as Glenn...

Canoes seem to be popular with decorators and often get placed in any area with a high ceiling, even if there is no connection to paddling. Benson

Yes, these canoes are built with a small outside gunwale and no inside gunwale as shown below. The block provides the necessary structural support between the thwart and the thin hull. It also lowers the thwart slightly which improves the comfort and stability for the paddler. There are other...

You may also find a model number on the thwart block if it is a Lakefield or on the thwart if it is an English as shown below. Benson

It looks Canadian and those oars don't go with it. Peterborough, Lakefield, English, and many others made canoes like this. There may be tags on the outside of the hull at the ends of the thwarts. The link below has some examples. Benson https://woodencanoemuseum.org/decals