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This is a canoe that needs to find a new home, though that new home may be a funeral pyre... This is a big boat, twenty feet long and 43" beam. In rough shape... it belongs to a kid's camp and it's been ineptly repaired over the years (and fiberglassed, whether over the canvas or directly on...

It's interesting how things fit together. As I mentioned in another thread last spring, although I've been paddling off and on for sixty years, I had never heard of Canadian style paddling, or freestyle until finding this site a couple of years ago. But it made perfect sense to me, both as an...

This is my first attempt at making a paddle... I have an old beavertail paddle of unknown origin, I like it but it's too long for me. So I copied the basic shape onto a plank we milled from a beetle killed ash tree near the cabin. It's the second best plank I could find; the best became the...

I never heard of Git-Rot until I saw it mentioned here... I need to repair some rotted wood (full disclosure, it's plywood in a camper, not a canoe). Looking around, some people recommend Rot Doctor, and West Marine has their own brand "Marine Rot Repair Penetrating Epoxy" at a considerably...

Anybody know a source for the aluminum extension used as a keel rub rail on some older fiberglass canoes? This is an early 1960s vintage glass canoe; the strips run from the gunwale at the bow and stern to a little past where this one is broken at the last screw. The strip is about 3/8"...

I'm debating on what to do with this canoe. If I hadn't been paddling it for 60 years, I suspect I wouldn't even be thinking about it... Around 1963, Dad happened on two canoes that were "excess" to a bunch of canoes bought by some unknown camp. He took one and a friend took the other. We...

I have two old paddles, I don't remember where I got them... might have been in our current or old cabin when we moved in. The first (no picture) is a conventional beavertail, with a very pleasing shape and comfortable grip... though it's a bit too long for me if I'm in the back. That one I...

I'm trying to ID a canoe I acquired a couple of years ago (ah, the "free" canoe). Actually it was a swap; my brother in law gave us a cheapo Coleman plastic canoe (the kind with the aluminum tube frame). I never did much with it as I had another [ancient] fiberglass canoe, but I found that a...

Hi, new here. Came across the site while looking for info on a new to me old canoe, but that can be the subject of another thread. I've been paddling the same canoe on the same lake (Kanawauke in NY) for nearly 60 years now. Our family had a cabin in a camp on the lake when I was young, and...