Recent content by Robin

My barn in Connecticut was new, I built it shortly after retirement in 2010 but found spending time in there with old canoes to be about as good as life could get. Here in Maine I’m lucky to have a heated one car garage added to the side of a full garage, I spend a lot of time in there during...

Nice trip report, fun read. Thanks

Looks like it’s going to be a great restoration, new inwales really make an old canoe look sharp. Good luck with the canvassing process, you have a nice set up there.

I was the admin who added the “like” button, a friend and fellow member suggested it. I wasn’t sure if it was a good idea but I felt it might help for the exact reason Neophyte mentioned above. It did catch some criticism, but the biggest critic is long gone and the like button paddles on.

Pennsylvania, New York, all of New England states, Quebec and Ontario, Florida.

Unfortunately, Scouting never appealed to me. That and asking my parents to commit to the long ride across town to meetings sort of ended it after one meeting. I’m sure we could have joined a car pool but I knew it wasn’t for me so no sense. By then I had spent a few summers at a family...

When I found an old 18’ wood canvas Chestnut Cruiser (thanks fellow member Sweeper) that I shortened to 16’ during the restoration I found it to be an all around great hull. Lots of Prospector features but not as wide. It solos well, handles big water, good in moving water and lots of room for a...

When I used to restore old canoes and sell them, many of the buyers wanted to get back into canoes but didn’t see the need or have the funds to buy those lightweight expensive new ones sold at the nearby Swift dealer. A nicely painted (Epifanes or Interlux) fiberglass or Kevlar canoe with fresh...

I attended a couple of other gatherings, back when Northeast Paddlers Message Board was canoe active we met a couple of times, once on a sandbar on the Merrimack River in Concord, NH, then in northern ADKs at lake north of Cranberry Lake. Both were well attended and good fun. I also attended a...

We had a couple of rendezvous back in 2016 at Lows Lake and 2017 Little Tupper Lake in the Adirondacks. Both were well attended and a lot of fun. 2016- https://www.canoetripping.net/threads/lows-lake-sept-27-28-29.50660/ 2017-...

Funny, I didn’t remember this, I’m not sure what led up to it either. Good find Glenn.

There wasn’t anybody between Willis and myself. When the site went orphaned the popular consensus was that it was finished. I sent an email to the hosting company explaining the situation and for $25 I was able to become the new owner. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing but I kept it...

About 9 years ago I watched the weather and lucked out with some nice early April weather up at Lows Lake in the Adirondacks. The gate was still closed so I wheeled my way in to the put in. I was rewarded with some beautiful weather, although it did get down into the mid 20’s at night.

Hi Jim, Welcome to the site. Thats interesting, "last October, I picked up my first wc canoe, a 1964 Old Town 50lb." Like you already know one wood canvas canoe will never be enough! 50lber is a really nice canoe.

Yes, it’s a classic, unused, not made any more, but use it once on a rocky river (where it excels and built its reputation) and you have a scratched up $900 canoe.