1910 Kennebec joins the fleet...

[scratchypants]

I'm not standing right next to your canoe, but from here it seems that all it needs is for you to paddle it. I don't have recommendations, but given my location I'd reach out to Headwaters first. Maybe someone here can speak to their work.

 

[ppine]

That is one great canoe. that amount of rocker is very appealing. It is in great using shape already.
f I were you I would just start paddling it. I had a 1951 Old Town that I paddled for 35 years. It had a few repairs and some cracked ribs. Big deal. I loved paddling it. It creaked and groaned in waves like it was alive. I did not baby it too much. It went every where.

If you get it restored, then you won't see it for a year at least. You will spend a lot of money. Then it will be perfect and it will be difficult to paddle it. Canoes are made to be used.

 

[Brightraven]

That is one great canoe. that amount of rocker is very appealing. It is in great using shape already.
f I were you I would just start paddling it. I had a 1951 Old Town that I paddled for 35 years. It had a few repairs and some cracked ribs. Big deal. I loved paddling it. It creaked and groaned in waves like it was alive. I did not baby it too much. It went every where.

If you get it restored, then you won't see it for a year at least. You will spend a lot of money. Then it will be perfect and it will be difficult to paddle it. Canoes are made to be used.

That is one great canoe. that amount of rocker is very appealing. It is in great using shape already.
f I were you I would just start paddling it. I had a 1951 Old Town that I paddled for 35 years. It had a few repairs and some cracked ribs. Big deal. I loved paddling it. It creaked and groaned in waves like it was alive. I did not baby it too much. It went every where.

If you get it restored, then you won't see it for a year at least. You will spend a lot of money. Then it will be perfect and it will be difficult to paddle it. Canoes are made to be used.

Well said!

 

[Brightraven]

So I am thinking (through the help of Glenn's attached Kennebec 1910 catalogue, Benson's links to WCHA discussions, and my own research), that this is a 1910 "Charles River" model. Though it seems to be a rare model with its closed gunwales from the company's earliest days, the specs match at 15' long, 31" wide at the interior gunwales, and 12" deep, with an upswept bow and stern. Apparently it's about 58lbs, but honestly it feels a whole lot lighter than that (especially after wrestling with my new-to-me Royalex Soloed Penobscot 16 which is supposed to be the same weight).
From the 1910 catalogue that Glenn attached, this model is advertised as the "1915 Charles River". I wonder why they included "1915" in the title back in 1910?

Thank you all in this group for the continual inspiration...