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This is a feature of vBulletin which has not been replicated under XenForo in the same way. The WoodenBoat forum is still running vBulletin and their statistics are shown below for comparison. The page at...

I'm not Glenn and don't have access to the administrative side of this forum but XenForo does provide some limited statistics as shown below from the similar WCHA forums (https://forums.wcha.org/). The short answer is yes, a very limited number of members provide most of the content and...

The link below has more details about the serial numbers on a variety of old canoes if anyone wants to chase down that 'rabbit hole.' This probably could be subtitled 'everything that you ever wanted to know about canoe serial numbers and were sorry you asked.' Benson...

This is correct. The HIN format only permits five digits for the serial number so Old Town omits the most significant digit(s). This is most obvious in their wooden canoes which have the full six digit serial number on the stems and the five digit version on the HIN tag as shown below. The full...

This canoe has serial number 390212 and was made in September, 1991 for the 1992 model year. That build record has not been scanned. Good luck with the project, Benson

Old Town had a many woods available so it may have varied. Their wooden canoes in that era had spruce inside rails and mahogany outside rails. The rails could be square or rounded depending on the model. This was introduced in the 1992 catalog and you may be able to get the decals reproduced...

The canoetripping.net domain name was first registered on July 23rd, 2011. The first website using that domain appeared in a search by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine on April 19th, 2012. Your profile indicates that you joined on November 14th, 2018. Others here may have more detailed...

Many years ago I volunteered to help run my son's Cub Scout Pack. We decided that it would be fun to go canoeing and soon found that there wasn't anyone in the state with the authority to approve a paddling trip for scouts. The local Scout Camp was on a nice lake but had no canoes or other...

Guessing when a lake will have open water is notoriously difficult. The chart below shows some ice out dates for Cold Stream Pond in central Maine from 1950 to a few years ago. The green line shows the rolling ten year average. The r square value for this data set is .074 which is a very low...

There were a broad variety of Chestnut Prospectors so the answer varies. The most obvious element is that they tended to be deeper than the similar pleasure models. The 1934 catalog page below may help. Benson

You may also want to poke around the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association forum at https://forums.wcha.org/ to see if you get the same behavior. This is also running Xenforo on a server in Virginia. Good Luck, Benson

I would encourage you to try a few other internet connections (neighbor, work, library, coffee shop, airport, etc.) to see if you get the same behavior. If it is only happening at your home then it may be worth calling your internet provider to see if they can help. Good luck, Benson

Someone has listed a 1981 Ranger model (i.e. a Tripper with wood trim) in similar condition on Facebook marketplace for $3950 in West Sand Lake, New York for a while. They haven't found a buyer yet either. There are lots of optimists around. Benson

Be careful with it, that is quite a bit less than the original. Benson

Chipewyan was Old Town's name for their ABS/Royalex/Oltonar series of canoes which came in various lengths. This was similar to their Carleton group of fiberglass canoes. I believe that Old Town built the second facility in the world to make canoes from flat ABS sheets in the 1970s. The first...

Most people would probably have considered an aluminum Grumman to be a 'state of the art' canoe in the mid-1950s. These were priced in the $100 to $300 range as shown in the first image below. The ABS plastic canoes in the 1970s were priced in $300 to $400 range as shown in the second image...

This story was quoted in the 1975 Old Town catalog as shown below. Benson

The first advertisement below is probably the one you are seeking. They spent all afternoon throwing it off the roof because it is not easy to get a canoe to land on end from four stories up. Most of the time it just bounced without buckling. There were lots of pictures available so they...

They are considering this decision now. It seems likely to remain at Paul Smiths. Benson

My experience is that once you have a hitch then it will get used for many other things too. I selected a canoe trailer that could have a plywood deck added so it has helped me move: a lawnmower, a snowblower, furniture, bark mulch, firewood, brush, and a variety of other items that would not be...