interested in hearing any well educated guesses or factual knowledge about what this might be
http://tulsa.craigslist.org/boa/2507549271.html
A punt?
Looks Like a Job for…
American Pickers. Look at dat old car!
looks like
looks like someone looked at a Klepper Folboat and made one in strip cedar. Not what I’d want to paddle, but probably a reasonably decent boat.
a decked stripper canoe ??
Floboat?
I was thinking a standard Folboat reproduced in cedar strip
Hmmmm…
Has some aspects of a waterfowl hunter’s punt or “sneak box”.
Yup. Sneak boat.
I'd almost expect to find a spent shell stuck under the floor boards.
interesting
i never thought of it as being designed for hunting. it would probably be a somewhat clumsy boat eh ? looks as if paddling would be difficult due to the breadth of the thing.
I’m not a duck hunter but,
as I understand it, speed is not the primary concern. Most of the ones I’ve seen up here are set up for sculling.
maybe…
…someones home built/designed version of a Rob Roy style in tandem. Seems to be a hybrid of some commercial model, just a “customized/ home built” one.
Looks like…
Looks pretty similar to what is being built here:
http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?111570-Merrymeeting-Bay-DB
Rob Roy?
Looks like the old decked canoes popular in the 19th century. Rushton built some of the finest. http://www.jemwatercraft.com/StudyPlans/NorthWindStudyPlans.htm
These are boats in the Adirondack Museum:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adkgrandtour/5961774508/in/set-72157627250078414
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adkgrandtour/5961775850/in/set-72157627250078414
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adkgrandtour/5961194653/in/set-72157627250078414/
Transom or not?
Looks like a double ender, and therefore,
a decked canoe.
If it has a transom, then there would be a place for a motor…And hence, more likely a sneak box or duck boat.
And god knows, how wide a beam.
(Personally, I’d offer him $500 for both the boat and the car --Convert the boat to full-on canoe sailing ala Rushton or Rob Roy type…Then restore what I could of the car, or perhaps…sell it for $500/parts;-)