Resurrecting an old thread! Lets see some old school canoes!
1976 Old Town Chipewyan 17
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I have owned two Old Town Campers. I am not sure of the age of my first one (first pic) but my current one is a 2000.
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a nice collection of new canoes. Old school canoes are wood and canvas or birch bark. Even aluminum canoes could be considered old school.
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It’s all relative. Some of what you’re calling “new” was designed and built before computers were common place and computer aided design relatively unheard of. If a vinyl record is old school, isn’t a royalex canoe? If a motorcycle or car from the 70’s and even into the 80’s a classic, wouldn’t a canoe be? If Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Metallic are being played on the classic rock station now, a canoe built with them playing in the background for the first time on radio is surely no longer considered part of the new school is it?
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Dave Curtis (of Hemlock Canoes) is selling a very “old school” canoe in his used lineup at the moment:
Algonquian Tandem, Birch Bark, Natural
17’0" long, 39" wide, 72 lbs.
Built by Native canoe builders in W Quebec.
Originally a gift for a young lady by a relative who was familiar with the Native village. The young lady became Harold Deal’s mother. The canoe was used for Canadian tripping in 1940’s-60’s and stored since. It has always remained with the same family.
(1930’s prod) Excellent Historic display piece.
$1995.00
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Very nice! Is that the one that was recently listed on Clist in Ohio?
I bought this WWC-1 in Washington State.
I think TheBob passed and is enjoying his collection of canoes on the other side now. Paddle on!
-sing
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Lets keep this thread going in TheBob’s honor.
Also, their is not enough canoe stuff on here!
Wenonah Fisherman 16 (retired model) very similar to the current Wenonah Adirondack.
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That’s cool. Just a FYI so no one expects TheBob to respond.
-sing
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Some great photos of interesting canoes in action. Most of them are modern materials. Plenty of solo and white water canoes which are less common.
Maybe I am just getting old, but to me old school canoes are aluminum, wood and canvas or bark.
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I guess it depends on your perspective. All of the canoes I posted are no longer in production. The Tripper was built in 1976 so it is nearly 50 years old. The two Wenonah canoes were built in the 1980’s so they are 40. The P 17 is over 30 years old.
I agree that wood and canvas and aluminum are also old school.
I also have a Coleman that is probably well over 30 years old.
I have kept the Coleman at our vacation house. It reminds me of the canoes I paddled in my youth.
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TheBob passed away at the end of December, several years back: OZARK RENDEZVOUS "YARD SALE"
I thought of him when I saw this nice tribute to another OC paddler. From his (and TheBob’s) community, “a hui hou” (to meet and paddle again) in remembrance.
-sing
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Sing, do you think it is okay to continue his thread?
Yes. TheBob was noted in PNet for his collection and love of canoes, as well sharing his passion with others.
I am just struck by this interesting coincidence of having his thread revived near the anniversary of his passing. Nice tribute.
-sing
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Old Town Tripper exploring the small river behind my house up to it’s source (the main river it branches off of is just on the other side of the spillway).
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Nice Tripper!
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sometimes I just want to paddle a Tripper.
Canoes made with fiberglass, Royalex, kevlar and many other modern man made canoes are modern canoes. They can be molded to complex shapes not possible with the previous methods. They might be old, but they are still modern because of how they are made.
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