1987 Kevlar Curtis Vagabond
1984 Kevlar Curtis Solo Tripper
Wenonah tuffweave Advantage
MRC Royalex Guide
1975 fiberglass Mowhawk
MRC Kevlar Explorer 16
1984 Kevlar Curtis Solo Tripper
Wenonah tuffweave Advantage
MRC Royalex Guide
1975 fiberglass Mowhawk
MRC Kevlar Explorer 16
1993 Swift Heron
Thanks for posting up some photos of old school beauties Pete,
(and others).
I’d never even seen a picture of a Twister before…
Terry bought my Mad River Courier, then flipped it in a heartbeat.
I think his search for the “perfect canoe” is ongoing.
Hate to burst his bubble; there is no such canoe.
Am sending along photo of the Courier.
Yes, I still have the yellow, Mad River Screamer.
JoAnne in Mohawk Solo 14 on the Buffalo.
Jesus is coming bus on the road to the North Fork of the White
Here is a Curtis Dragonfly on the Slippery Rock Creek in western PA (not Bob’s former boat)
:
Old Wenonah Jensen WWC1 downriver canoe:
Hemlock Shaman:
Dagger Phantom and a Dagger Ocoee:
(captions are backwards for Curtis Dragonfly and Jensen WWC1 and I can’t seem to fix)
Never had a canoe but if I think of the word the picture in my mind is an aluminum one by Grumman like picture #2 with rivets. May be because I am from Long Island where Grumman was located. Nice pictures here thanks!
yatipope’s Wenonah Royalex Vagabond on Cedar Creek
on Tyger River
His Royalex Mohawk 14 on the Enoree
His Dagger Royalex Sojourn on the Broad
off the Enoree
His Mohawk Royalex Odyssey on the Tuck
on Turkey Creek
on the Saluda
This canoe belongs to a friend of mine. He prefers the old canvas covered wood canoes. This one is estimated to be 100 years old and re-covered three times. He regularily paddles it on club trips. The original builder is unknown. Yes, it is heavy. It paddles nice though.
Old school all the way. (Mainly a kayak guy, but I appreciate seeing all these wonderful old canoes.)
And pblanc: That Pepto boat be out of sight 
Overstreet is that a Merrimack Baboosuc?
@kayamedic said:
Overstreet is that a Merrimack Baboosuc?
I don’t know how old Merrimack canoes are, But a friend I know paddles what he said is a Merrimack solo Baboosuc which is a modern canoe without a canvas exterior. This is a photo of Kevin’s canoe on a Lake Hartwell near Anderson, SC June 2015.
@spiritboat said:
Old school all the way. (Mainly a kayak guy, but I appreciate seeing all these wonderful old canoes.)
And pblanc: That Pepto boat be out of sight
Although “Pepto” was a common adjective used to describe that color (which was actually called Fuchsia by Dagger), some of the salty, good old boys I used to paddle with in the Southeast applied a different modifier, which I will leave to your imagination.
@pblanc said:
“… some of the salty, good old boys I used to paddle with in the Southeast applied a different modifier, which I will leave to your imagination.”
All I know is, it takes a tough man secure in his own skin to paddle a pink, er…“fuchsia” colored boat.
Not old school, but here is a friend looking quite stylish in her pink whitewater canoe (hopefully I won’t get in trouble for lifting this from her FB page):
I have no feelings of insecurity paddling my pink/pepto/fuchsia? Mad River Flashback II. With my wife, Christmas day, 2015
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P.S. I get by with a little help from my friends in these photos.
Of special note is the grade school kid. in the orange Mad River Outrage. He’s is a “special” paddler for his age. Note “toy” kayak he pulls behind canoe…
Here are a few more. I had to dig out the scanner for a couple.
MRC Howler:
Dagger Impulse:
My Rival on the beach with a Whittsell and an Old town on the Dog:
A Rendezvous on the Batchawana:
A Mad River Explorer doing a dynamic eddy out:
Finally, as long as we are going old school, here is from a WVA trip
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Bell Mystic -maybe not “old school” but out of production even before Bell was…
And a '94 Blackhawk Starship
I wish my friend Carl would post here… he has some fine old school canoes - Beaver Aluminum solos, some Galt Lotus’, Blackhawk Zephyr, Proem, & Covenant… not to mention his two W/C North canoes and his newly acquired birchbark.
Here’s one of his North canoes loaded for a couple block move, and, no, this isn’t photoshopped;
