: What many people don't realize is that wooden canoes and
: strip-built canoes used to be a highly commercial enterprise.
: Old Town Canoe started out making wood and canvas canoes and
: continue offer them
: http://www.oldtowncanoe.com/canoes/classic_wood/otca_16.html .
: These were very quickly made and quite inexpensive. There are
: still people building the full wood/canvas style canoes and some
: builders don't do the canvas and cover the boats with glass.
: They are no longer particularly inexpensive.

: The young prince is looking at a canoe made by Walter Walker. That
: particular boat is on exhibit at the Canadian Canoe Museum. That
: again was produced using a somewhat mass-production commercial
: based process that was relatively common at one time. Walter
: Walker was the last living builder who had produced canoes in a
: factory using that particular technique. It makes a very nice
: boat and would be fun to try some time.

Hi Nick,

The wood/canvas canoes are really nice, once aluminum canoes came out they were never inexpensive. Not sure they ever were, just seem inexpensive by modern standards. There were also a huge number of molded mahogany and/or cedar canoes built commercially. They look like modern day cold molded boats but were hot molded because of the glues of the day.

Bill H.