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A Chestnut Pal from Big Lake Ranch, BC (pictured above) is finished and ready to go back home. Two other Chestnut canoes are getting new outwales.
Tomorrow, July 24th, I travel to Penticton to teach the volunteer crew at the museum how to install new planks in two 30' C-15 racing canoes from the 1940's. Meanwhile, I'm stripping varnish in a Peterborough Champlain High-ender (pictured above).
Jul 23
2014