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Reserve a copy of “This Old Canoe: How To Restore Your Wood-Canvas Canoe”
by Mike Elliott, Kettle River Canoes This Old Canoe: How To Restore Your Wood-Canvas Canoe will be launched in April 2016. If you would like to reserve a signed copy, send me an email request:...
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Removing Fiberglass from a Wood-Canvas Canoe, How to
by Mike Elliott, Kettle River Canoes For those of you new to this blog and have not heard me on this topic before, let me be as clear as I can be: To anyone thinking about applying fiberglass to a...
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Chestnut Bobs Special Wood-Canvas Canoe, A Restorer’s Guide
by Mike Elliott, Kettle River Canoes The blogs I do on the specifications of canoe components for various types of canvas-covered canoes seem to be quite popular. Apparently, I am the only one out...
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A Preview of This Old Canoe: How To Restore Your Wood-Canvas Canoe
by Mike Elliott, Kettle River Canoes This Old Canoe: How To Restore Your Wood-Canvas Canoe will be launched in April 2016. It is a step-by-step guide through the process of transforming an old,...
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Sample Pages of “This Old Canoe: How To Restore Your Wood-Canvas Canoe”
by Mike Elliott, Kettle River Canoes Here are some sample pages from This Old Canoe: How To Restore Your Wood-Canvas Canoe. This PDF contains the Table of Contents, Preface, Introduction and Chapter...
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How to Make and Install Half-Ribs in a Wood-Canvas Canoe
by Mike Elliott, Kettle River Canoes photo from “Tales from Misery Ridge: One Man’s Adventures in the Great Outdoors” by Paul J. Fournier. (Island Port Press, 2011) About 130 years ago, fishing guides...
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Book Tour Events for “This Old Canoe: How To Restore Your Wood-Canvas Canoe”
by Mike Elliott, Kettle River Canoes This Old Canoe: How To Restore Your Wood-Canvas Canoe will be launched next month – April 2016. This will be celebrated in a variety of ways. There will be...
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Bill Greenwood: The Man and his Wood-Canvas Canoes
by Mike Elliott, Kettle River Canoes Unless you live in British Columbia, you have probably never heard of Bill Greenwood or Greenwood canoes. And if you want to start a fight amongst wood-canvas...
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How to Rebuild Rotted Rib-tops in a Wood-Canvas Canoe
by Mike Elliott, Kettle River Canoes While repairing your wood-canvas canoe, you may come across some ribs that are perfectly good except for a small portion attached to the inwale. Rather than...
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How to Strip Varnish from a Wood-Canvas Canoe
by Mike Elliott, Kettle River Canoes Without a doubt, the most horrible job in the restoration of a wood-canvas canoe is stripping the varnish from the interior. It is messy, stinky, agonizing work...
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Book Talk and Signing in Penticton, BC for “This Old Canoe: How To Restore...
by Mike Elliott, Kettle River Canoes The book tour for This Old Canoe starts in Penticton, BC at the Penticton Public Library on Friday, April 15 at noon. The fun continues with a presentation at the...
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A Restorers’ Guide to the 16′ Chestnut Pal Wood-Canvas Canoe
by Mike Elliott, Kettle River Canoes If you are preparing to restore your wood-canvas canoe – especially in Canada – you are often looking at a canoe built by the Chestnut Canoe Company based in New...
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Book Reviews of “This Old Canoe: How To Restore Your Wood-Canvas Canoe”
Conor Mihell is an editor-at-large for Canoe&Kayak Magazine. He has just posted a review of This Old Canoe: How To Restore Your Wood-Canvas Canoe. Check it out: Review of This Old Canoe – Canoe...
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How To Lace Rawhide (Babiche) Seats for a “Huron” Wood-Canvas Canoe
by Mike Elliott, Kettle River Canoes If the seats in your canoe are laced with rawhide similar to that in old snowshoes, chances are you own a “Huron” canoe – the generic name for canoes built in Huron...
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How To Photograph Your Wood-Canvas Canoe
by Mike Elliott, Kettle River Canoes People email regularly asking me to identify their canoe and/or give them an estimate on a restoration. When I ask them to send me some pictures, I often see a big...
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How To Buy or Sell Wood-Canvas Canoes
by Mike Elliott, Kettle River Canoes Frequently, I get an email from someone who is looking to sell their wood-canvas canoe. Typically, they tell me, “The canoe has been stored under-cover for the...
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Tremblay Wood-Canvas Canoes: A Restorers’ Guide
by Mike Elliott, Kettle River Canoes Of the lesser known canoe manufacturers in Canada, Tremblay Canoes Limited (Les Canots Tremblay Limitée) from St. Félicien, Québec stood out from the crowd. They...
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A Guide to the Wood-Canvas Canoes of the Chestnut Canoe Company
by Mike Elliott, Kettle River Canoes In Canada, the canoes from the Chestnut Canoe Company set the standard by which all others are measured. Now, thirty-six years after the company went out of...
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The keel question: Does a wood-canvas canoe need a keel?
by Mike Elliott, Kettle River Canoes If there is an area of controversy in the world of wood-canvas canoes, the question of the keel would be it. Historically, canoes (and kayaks for that matter) never...
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How To Store A Wood-Canvas Canoe
by Mike Elliott, Kettle River Canoes Proper storage of your wood-canvas canoe is essential to its long, rot-free life. The basic principles of proper storage revolve around creating an environment...
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