Coming in July 2024: This Fancy Old Canoe: A Comprehensive Guide to Restoring Antique Canoes

by Mike Elliott, Kettle River Canoes

This Fancy Old Canoe: A Comprehensive Guide to Restoring Antique Canoes picks up where This Old Canoe: How to Restore Your Wood-Canvas Canoe left off. Whether you are an avid collector of antique canoes, or you have limited experience in the woodwork shop and just want to get your family’s heirloom canoe back on the water, the two books work together providing the techniques necessary to achieve success in your canoe restoration adventure.

Using over 400 photos and more than 100 plans and illustrations, This Fancy Old Canoe is designed to simplify and clarify the restoration process.

The book covers every aspect you may encounter in your canoe. Cane seats, highly curved ends in fancy canoes, sponsons (air chambers attached to the sides of the canoe), sailing rigs, floor systems, fancy hand-painted designs — they are all described in This Fancy Old Canoe.

Many antique canoes, built in the Peterborough region of Ontario, Canada are all-wood construction. They do not have a canvas cover. Instead, they rely on precise joinery to create a water-tight hull. This Fancy Old Canoe describes how to repair and replace every component in these elegant examples of floating art.

This Fancy Old Canoe: A Comprehensive Guide to Restoring Antique Canoes will be available in July 2024. Stay tuned.