I'm posting a photos of a derelict canoe because I'm curious to know about it. It is different than most canoes I've seen, and wondered if anybody might recognize or know anything about it.
The canoe was on the wall behind the bar in a place that opened near me in 2019. It was mounted horizontally with the open side facing the customers.
People that worked at the bar told me the canoe behind the bar was excessed by the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md, and was not in sea worthy condition. I suspect somebody donated the defunct canoe to the Museum, and at some point the museum decided it wasn’t collection worthy, and somehow the bar ended up with it.
Over the several years the canoe hung behind the bar, it became a shelf for bar kitsch. It was filled with a portrait of the Dos Equis man, t-shirts, and beer/liqueur promo items. You had to look to see there was a canoe there. In fact, I would try to stump new patrons by telling them there was a canoe in the bar and asking them to find it.
Now the bar has been sold. When the new owners took over about a month ago, they replaced the canoe with three, big-screen TVs. The canoe, which I always thought would be cool to paddle, was taken down and thrown out the back door. So, I went out back and for the first time had a good look at it. I think it would have been relatively fast. Impressive decks. Because it came from the Museum, I suspect it was locally built, but no idea. I can’t tell how the oars were attached, but the better question is, why?
The canoe was on the wall behind the bar in a place that opened near me in 2019. It was mounted horizontally with the open side facing the customers.
People that worked at the bar told me the canoe behind the bar was excessed by the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md, and was not in sea worthy condition. I suspect somebody donated the defunct canoe to the Museum, and at some point the museum decided it wasn’t collection worthy, and somehow the bar ended up with it.
Over the several years the canoe hung behind the bar, it became a shelf for bar kitsch. It was filled with a portrait of the Dos Equis man, t-shirts, and beer/liqueur promo items. You had to look to see there was a canoe there. In fact, I would try to stump new patrons by telling them there was a canoe in the bar and asking them to find it.
Now the bar has been sold. When the new owners took over about a month ago, they replaced the canoe with three, big-screen TVs. The canoe, which I always thought would be cool to paddle, was taken down and thrown out the back door. So, I went out back and for the first time had a good look at it. I think it would have been relatively fast. Impressive decks. Because it came from the Museum, I suspect it was locally built, but no idea. I can’t tell how the oars were attached, but the better question is, why?
