Historic Canoe Plans Drawings

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These are drawings of historic canoes and are full sized when printed on the properly-sized paper. The stations and stems are drawn as a linesplan and individually. Unless otherwise noted, the stations are taken at one foot intervals.

• 1898 Passamaquoddy Ocean Canoe: The 1898 Passamaquoody Decorated Ocean Canoe comes from page 82, Figure 74 of Edwin Adney and Howard Chapelle's The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America. The text notes that this is the last known canoe of this style built. Tomah Joseph of Princeton, Maine built the canoe based on a cedar and canvas porpoise-hunting canoe.

• Modern Malecite St. John River Canoe: This cedar canoe drawingis based on Edwin Adney and Howard Chapelle’s The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America–it appears on page 79. Adney surveyed the original in 1895. He notes that the boat shows moderate sheer and low ends.

• Têtes de Boule Two-Fathom Canoe: This cedar canoe drawing is based on figure 103 in The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America.

• Malecite Racing Canoe of 1888: This cedar canoe drawing appears as figure 66 in The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America.

• 1910 St Francis Canoe Drawing: This cedar canoe drawing is based on Figure 81 in The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America.

• Long Nose Ojibway Canoe Plans: This cedar-strip canoe plan is based on figure 117 in The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America.

• Old Model Ottawa River Algonkin Canoe: This cedar canoe drawing is based on figure 106 in The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America.

• Têtes de Boule Hunter’s Canoe Drawings: This cedar canoe drawing is modeled from figure 102 in The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America.

• Têtes de Boule Hunting Canoe Drawings: This was modeled from figure 104 in The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America.