-
Free Canoe Plan: 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. It has similar pinched ends and rounded tumblehome as the Modern Malecite St. John River Canoe. [half column title=”The Stats”] Length over all: 17ft 4in Design beam: 36in Design draft: 0.436in Displacement: 510lb Length of waterline: 15.8ft Wetted surface area: 29.5ft^2 Optimum capacity: 300-800lb Pounds to immerse an inch: 145lb [/half column] [half…