Handbuilt Wood and Canvas Canoe

It's sadly time for us to let go of our beautiful wood and canvas canoe. It's a brilliant boat, but it's a little too long and weighty for us to easily store and take out on the water as often as it deserves to be. We're admittedly small people, and we overestimated our ability to sling it around and get the most out of what is really a magnificent vessel. Handbuilt near Mt Hood, Oregon by Martin Ferwerda (http://www.ferwerdacanoe.us/), this Hiawatha canoe (http://www.ferwerdacanoe.us/hiawathacanoe.html) is built on an old original Thompson Brothers Hiawatha canoe form. Thompson Brothers Boat Manufacturing Company, of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, was a very large and well-respected builder of wooden boats. The eighteen-foot Hiawatha first appeared in catalogs in 1922, and continued to appear in catalogs until 1943. The Hiawatha canoe has a classic shape with a long nose profile. The strongly recurved stems give these canoes a long water line for good tracking, but a much shorter out of the water length. The canoe is 18 feet measured from the longest part of the recurved stems, but only about 16'7" as measured from the ends of the gunwales. The Hiawatha has a flat bottom for shallow draft and stability, tumblehome for ease of paddling, and a fine entry with gradually rising sheers. The full-size half ribs make the bottom of the canoe very tough, and the hull resistant to punctures when canoeing in shallows where underwater obstacles or snags may occur. These canoes track well, and make fine lake, and slow-moving water canoes. Features include: Traditional wood and canvas construction Full size half ribs, providing a very durable bottom Strongly recurved stem/long nose profile, giving the canoe a long bearing length on the water, improves tracking Double stems, the additional outside stems provide strength and a visual accent Gradual rising sheer line, this makes for a higher sheer line at the quarters of the canoe, the place most vulnerable to shipping water in large...

Condition

Used (normal wear)