Another project that's finally getting finished. I bought this 1970's Prospector at the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association's assembly a few years back. It needed 5 ribs and some plank, canvas and outter rails (gunnels). I finished the ribs, plank, canvas last August but left it sitting on the rack over the winter. I recently pulled it down and started sanding the filled canvas for it's first coat of paint.
Today we (my friend Bob and I) applied the 3rd coat of paint in Schuyler Thomsons shop. I could do it at home, but the lighting and advise I get at the shop make it worth the user fee tacked on to the parts bill (parts as paint, gunnels, etc). All 17' Chestnut Prospectors came in this green, or pretty close to it.
The original color isn't available now, but Skyuler mixed some green and grey and came up with this. About as close as we are going to get. Not my first choice of green, but it's pretty close to correct and I read once where a paddler spent alot of time in the north and he saw many Prospectors, always this color. I like that.
What with the bright lites, it might look different, but we painted the can and took it outside with an old Chestnut catalog and the colors match pretty well.
Today we (my friend Bob and I) applied the 3rd coat of paint in Schuyler Thomsons shop. I could do it at home, but the lighting and advise I get at the shop make it worth the user fee tacked on to the parts bill (parts as paint, gunnels, etc). All 17' Chestnut Prospectors came in this green, or pretty close to it.
The original color isn't available now, but Skyuler mixed some green and grey and came up with this. About as close as we are going to get. Not my first choice of green, but it's pretty close to correct and I read once where a paddler spent alot of time in the north and he saw many Prospectors, always this color. I like that.
What with the bright lites, it might look different, but we painted the can and took it outside with an old Chestnut catalog and the colors match pretty well.
