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A Quick Guide to Old Town Sailing Canoe Hardware

Many folks are surprised to hear that a canoe can be sailed. Indeed, it was quite popular, and canoe sailing has seen a resurgance in popularity in recent years. Old Town canoes are by far the most common wooden canoe encountered, and Old Town offered sail rigs for their canoes continuously starting in 1908 and continuing through 1978. As a canoe restorer, I am often asked about the bits and pieces that are used to set up an Old Town canoe for sail, so I have put this guide together to help describe Old Town sailing rigs. The images come from the 1942 Armstrong and Galbraith catalog. Armstrong and Galbraith were Old Town agents, and the iluustrations in their catalog are among the best to show the various components.

In order to sail a canoe, three basic units are required; a means to harness the wind, lateral resistance, and some way to steer.

Catch the Wind

In order to harness the wind, the following components are required:

• Sail  - The typical Old Town rig is a 55 square foot lateen, other sizes were available. Note that if you intend to sail your canoe in ACA races, you are required to use the ACA 44 square foot lateen sail.  
• Mast  - The typical Old Town mast is shaped from a solid piece of spruce. It is 2" in diamter at the base and tapers to 1 ¾ at the head. The base of the mast has a square tenon to fit into the mast step that is 1-5/16" square. There is a slot milled into the head of the mast 2¾" x 9/16", centered 3½" from the head of the mast. A 1¾ brass sheave is mounted in this slot for the halyard. Overall length of the mast varies depending on the size of the sail.
• Mast Step  - This is a block of wood mounted to the floor of the canoe, and usually through-bolted to the keel. There is a square hole milled into it that receives the mast tenon.
• Mast Partner  - This is the member that supports the mast at the level of the gunwales. In Old Town canoes, this is usually in the form of a mast seat. The seat will have a brass ring around the mast hole.
• It may also take the form of a mast thwart:
• Spars  -   
• Gooseneck  - Brass fitting that is fastened to the boom. It holds the boom to the mast while allowing the boom to swivel 

Lateral Resistance

Some form of lateral resistance is required. The purpose of lateral resistance is to prevent the canoe from sideslipping, and to redirect the winds energy into forward motion. In many larger boats, a keel, centerboard, or daggerboard provide lateral resistance. In canoes, leeboards are most commonly used.

• Leeboards and Bracket  - The standard Old Town leeboard set-up included two leeboards and an adjustable bracket. The bracket clamps onto the gunwales. It is adjustable in width, to allow the leeboards to be correctly positioned fore-aft, regardless of the changing beam of the canoe.
• Hook Bolt  - This is an L-shaped bolt with wing nut that is used to clamp the leeboard bracket to the gunwales. Old Town also used this style bolt on their portage yoke.
• Thumb Screw  - this is used to hold the two halves of the leeboard bracket together. They ride in slots in the bracket, which allows the bracket to be adjusted for width.  
• Lever Bolt  - the nut is also known as a tail nut. This is used to hold the leeboards to the angle braces.
• Angle Brace  - the cast brass fitting that mounts on the wood portion of the leeboard bracket, to which the leeboards are fastened

Getting from Here to There - Steering

• Paddle  - This is the simplest way, and a good one to know if your other steering gear becomes disabled. The paddle is held on the lee side of the canoe. Raising and lowering it in the water steers the canoe.  
• Rudder  - The rudder is mounted to the stem by way of cast rudder mounts. The rudder and its cross arm are made of wood. Steering lines fasten to the cross arm, and usually lead through blocks mounted under the center thwart. Steering is done by pulling the rope in one direction or the other. The shape of the Old Town rudder changed over the years.

Boat Profile

The Old Town Dinghy

A classic in cedar and canvas

From Issue   Small Boats Annual 2012

T he Old Town dinghy, a classic yacht tender, was once a staple offering in the catalog of the Old Town Canoe Company . It’s a lightweight beauty with a bright-finished interior and a painted, canvas-sheathed hull. Structurally, it looks like a canoe, but it has the shape of a versatile small boat—one that motors, sails, and rows respectably.

I’ve had one of these boats in my life for about as long as I can remember. When I was a kid, my grandfather had a 9-footer in his basement. Nobody knows exactly where it came from, but he’d owned an ACF cruiser in his younger days, and I’d guess that the dinghy conveyed with that boat when purchased, but not when sold. It must have spent a decade or two in that basement, out of the elements, when my parents adopted it as a tender for our 35′ Lion-class sloop.

For many years, the Old Town Canoe Company of Old Town, Maine, built a line of canvas-covered cedar dinghies using the same construction as that of their legendary canoes. Today, canoe builder Jerry Stelmok, working with his colleague Jonathan Minott, continues that tradition. Shown is a newly built 10-footer.

That was in the mid-1970s. We strapped a 3 1⁄2-hp Eska outboard from Sears on the dinghy’s transom, and I spent uncounted hours tearing around the harbor in that little boat, often with two or three friends as crew. The boat also ferried kids, adults, and supplies ashore for beach picnics. It served us well for several years as a tender, as it towed well and it carried a load, but with a new cruising boat came a new dinghy, and the old Old Town went back into storage. By my mid-teens, I’d laid claim to it, and my ownership has been uncontested for the past 30 years.

The boat was in excellent shape when I decided it was mine—though it needed refinishing. I had the time and inclination to do this back then, and so I spent many evenings—and a fair amount of methylene chloride—removing the old finish, bleaching the bare wood, and building nine coats of varnish. I relaunched that boat with a vintage pair of oars and a British Seagull outboard purchased with my high-school graduation funds, as the old Eska had become something of a lab cat for my older brother and me: We’d learned about internal combustion by taking it apart and putting it back together one too many times.

Thankfully, I did not indulge my youthful impulse to tinker with the Old Town. I’d thought about adding a sailing rig—and thus cutting a daggerboard slot and mast partners, and mounting a rudder. But I didn’t do that, and so the boat is still configured as it was the day it left the factory. Old Town did make a sailing model of this boat, but my bastardization of it would have sullied the boat’s originality. The Old Town dinghy has a design pedigree that I learned of only last year: B.B. Crowninshield, the great early-20th-century Boston Brahmin naval architect, designed it. Originality is paramount for a boat of this lineage and, as luck would have it, you can still have a brand-new— and original—Old Town dinghy if you order one from Jerry Stelmok.

An Old Town dinghy in Jerry Stelmok’s Island Falls Canoe Shop, nearly ready for its canvas sheathing.

J erry Stelmok carries forward the tradition of the Old Town Canoe Company, a business named for its location: Old Town, Maine, near the university town of Orono, which itself is home to the legendary oar- and paddlemaking company Shaw & Tenney (see page 40). Old Town Canoe today manufactures a big range of canoes and kayaks in molded plastic. Stelmok, on the other hand, builds wood-and-canvas canoes, and Old Town Dinghies, at his shop in Atkinson, Maine.

Wood-and-canvas canoes are an evolution of the famed Native American birchbark canoes. They are framed in thin cedar (1⁄4″ or so), planked in a similar thickness of cedar, and, instead of birchbark, are sheathed in stretched canvas. The weave of the canvas is filled with a proprietary compound, and the hull is then painted. The result is a strong and light boat, watertight—and heavier than when dry—after a short period of swelling.

Jerry Stelmok at the oars of a 9’ Old Town dinghy. Old Town’s distinctive oarlock type may still be purchased new from Shaw & Tenney in Orono, Maine.

The woodworking portions of this operation require a robust building jig—a labor-intensive affair justified only by the promise of a healthy production run. The Old Town Canoe Company can no longer justify this sort of handwork, but Stelmok builds and sells Old Town’s dinghies. The dinghy line consists of a 7′ 6″ hull, a 9′ one, and a 10′ one. Stelmok also builds Old Town’s cedar-and-canvas canoes; those boats are marketed by Old Town itself.

Stelmok builds his boats exactly as Old Town did in the 1920s. He fits them out with Old Town’s distinctive patent swivel oarlocks which, in effect, reverse the mechanics of common oarlocks: A plate-mounted pin is permanently fastened to the boat’s gunwale, and the oarlock itself has a hole in it, to slip over and rotate on the pin. Set in a fore-and-aft position, the oarlock is captured by the gunwale hardware; turn it athwartships, and it can be easily lifted free. The boat’s rails— and nearby boats—are protected by a rope fender set into a cove in the outwale. While this arrangement is not as protective as the ubiquitous rubber-cored can- vas gunwale guard we see on many dinghies today, it just looks right on an Old Town dinghy. And it performs well, too, as long as the screws used to fasten the rope guard are set well below the surface.

Island Falls Canoe builds a range of Old Town dinghies, including 7′ 6″, 9′, and 10″ models.

I t’s been said time and time again that every boat is a compromise. If you want a pure rowing boat, efficiency is the key, and the key to efficiency is a narrow, lightweight hull. If you want a motorboat, you might add some buoyancy, or “bearing,” aft to float a motor and to keep the boat from squatting as speed builds. For a sailboat, a clean entry and a fine stern are two factors that contribute to good performance.

The Old Town dinghy is a beautiful average of these three traits. It is somewhat bluff bowed, so it doesn’t grow tiddly when one ventures into the bow to tend the painter. But the waterline entry is sufficiently fine to allow easy progress through the water without plowing it up. Firm bilges keep the boat on its feet when lightly loaded, and the load waterline tucks in slightly at the stern, reducing drag. This tucked-in waterline is complemented by a handsome tumblehome shape in the transom. A shallow cutout in the transom confirms that this boat is, indeed, meant to carry an outboard motor if one is desired. If my earlier memories of this boat are to be trusted, I recall that the boat motors rather well. But I’ve become jaded to the concept of low-horsepower outboards on dinghies, finding them a loud and unnecessary storage burden for short trips between ship and shore. A pair of 7′ oars will give that old Eska a run for its money, and the oars always start.

With only the rower aboard, the boat responds quickly to the oars and carries easily between strokes. A single passenger complicates things, because my boat does not have a forward rowing station. The added weight, therefore, immerses the lower portion of the transom, making rowing, literally and figuratively, a drag. A third passenger cleans up the trim—as would a forward rowing station. I could add this station, I suppose, as Old Town oarlocks are often available where used bronze hardware is sold; indeed, two separate pairs of them on eBay are the subjects of fierce bidding wars as I write this. Perhaps I’ll consider this addition during my next overhaul of the boat, though I’m loath to change anything now. But I would add floorboards, as these dinghies have no floor timbers, and the bilge, built of nothing but soft cedar, could use a little protection—and more even weight distribution. At the moment, I ask my passengers to keep their weight on the keel batten until they’re seated.

My dinghy lay in storage for several years until I needed a tender about 15 years ago. I blew the dust off, gave her a coat of paint and varnish, launched her, and towed her behind a 28′ sloop for 150 shore-hugging miles from Massachusetts to midcoast Maine. After a day of swelling, her cedar planking was tight and she nearly doubled in weight—which is not a bad thing, since, when dry, the boat was shockingly light. She has stood up well to periods of intense use punctuated by dormancy. Despite its light construction, it’s a tough and durable boat—a fact well proven by whitewater canoes built in similar fashion. If you’re seeking a classic yacht tender in this size range, the Old Town dinghy deserves serious consideration.

Over the years, the Old Town Canoe Co. offered several versions of its cedar-and canvas dinghy. The first, designed by B.B. Crowninshield and shown here in this 1907 catalog, was 9’ long and 45” wide. The boat’s dimensions remained unchanged until 1927, when the “Depth Amidships” was listed as 16”; the 1928 catalog lists the width as 46” with a depth of 18”; catalogs from 1929 until 1971 (and 1983) list the width as 46” with a depth of 19 inches. Naval architect John G. Alden designed three sailing dinghies for Old Town in the 1930s, in 14’, 11’6″, and 10‘ lengths.

Thanks to Benson Gray for sharing details of the Old Town Dinghy’s design history.

For information and finished boats, visit Island Falls Canoe .

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Great build! this is probably a dumb question, but how do you get into the boat. I recently built an 8′ kit and I must say getting into (sort of OK) but getting out of it is a real challenge. Likes to tip, floats up rapidly showing me a little. Any suggestion would be welcomed.

Eric Rinehart

I have a small dinghy and usually beach it and step out carefully from the bow with one foot in the very center of the boat and one on the sand. It rolls less because you are in the narrowest part of the boat. On a dock, facing the boat, I put both hands on the dock and then sit with my butt in between them. There is no way to do it and retain your dignity.

Keep your weight low, hold on to the gunwales. It’s an art!

Glad to see this article, as I am in the middle of stripping an Old Town 9′ dinghy for my 1927 cruiser RIPTIDE. Any suggestions on how to cleanly strip the decades-old varnish without having to scrape it off would be most gratefully appreciated. The canoe-like frames make getting in between them really a challenge.

I am also restoring an Old Town 9′ dinghy, and have found that a 50/50 mix of lacquer thinner and denatured alcohol works well in getting the finish off. It still requires a lot of work, but it does work.

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Old town sail canoe restoration.

After many years sitting on tires in the brush behind my mother’s house, I decided it was finally time to rescue the sail canoe we used when I was growing up. It’s an Old Town Penobscot with a sailing rig, including big heavy wood dagger boards and a similar rudder. I remember it sailed a bit like a bathtub compared to the sunfish I sailed at summer camp. I also remembered the boat being very heavy, but to my surprise it actually doesn’t seem that much heavier than my royalex Wenonah Heron, so now I’m wondering if it’s royalex as well, or something similar. Does anyone know off-hand when royalex when into and out of production? Can I figure out the manufacture date from the serial number stamped on the hull? What else could the hull be made of? I don’t really see the weave of fiberglass but maybe it’s under the paint? Seems too light to be poly/plastic and too heavy for something like kevlar.

As you can see, the wood work is in very sorry shape. I can replace the thwarts and yoke easily enough. For the bow seat with the mast brackets, does anyone sell parts for sail canoes anymore? I’m guessing not and that I’ll have to track down some ash lumber and try to recreate it, rescuing as much old hardware off the current seat as possible. That route leads me to using webbing rather than caning on the front seat, in which case I’d want to do the back to match. This goes against a nice retro look on the restoration, but I’m not going to learn to cane and not sure I want to put in the money to have someone else do it.

Thoughts and suggestions welcome!!! Thanks!

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The Penobscot is definitely a Royalex boat.

Old Town hasn’t offered the mast step bow seat in many many years, but you might be able to find someone at the Wood Canoe Heritage Assn site who can make them or knows of a source. http://www.wcha.org

I would say that if you want to restore it as a sailing boat for your own purposes, go for it, but I’m doubtful it would increase the value of the boat to anyone else, since sailing canoes are more traditionally wood/canvas rather than plastic. Just a thought before you put too much time or effort into it.

Benson Gray over at WCHA is a great grandson of the founder of Old Town Canoes and is a sailing canoe expert. He has several wood canvas Old Towns and should be able to help you

Thanks, @Offshore and @kayamedic for the tips! I’ll check out WCHA.

If I decide to go with a regular canoe rig and just replace the seats, thwarts, and yokes, are there preferred suppliers out there for parts? I know Old Town sells some but perhaps there are better places to get them? Thanks again!

Old Town’s wood frame seats are (or at least always have been) a little different in dimension from what Wenonah and a few others use, so to avoid having the holes in the gunwales off a little, I’d go with OT branded replacements. Any Old Town shop can order them for you (if you don’t have one nearby, feel free to PM me, since I’m a dealer in the Chicago area, and we can ship). I’d recommend webbing seats over cane, unless you like the idea of replacing them every decade.

Yes. Ed’s Canoe

Curiously the OT website lists seat hardware but not seats. A supply problem perhaps? You can cut down seat braces easily to fit your paddling station. It may be that for your needs and size you should move the seats. Or not.

“A supply problem perhaps?”

Yes. OT has halted direct consumer sales on many products in order to make sure they have enough inventory to complete dealer orders. Same is true with parts from several other brands, and supply will remain tight for the coming months, so anyone looking at parts should be prepared for a wait.

Thanks! I’ll check with my local outdoors store first. I’ve gotten a yoke from them before and I think they’re carrying OT kayaks these days. But I’ll keep you in mind as a back-up!

Thanks for the suggestion, Ed’s looks like a good resource to have on hand.

When you say changing the seats, are you talking lowering, or moving fore/aft? I’m not sure what the future of the canoe will be (keeping, giving to family members, or selling), so hard to anticipate proper fore/aft trim. Plus, I’ve never drilled holes in a gunnel and would be nervous to do so - seems like a potentially expensive opportunity for a mistake!

A couple extra holes in the gunwales isn’t a problem at all. Make the boat work for the use at hand.

You can fix that boat in an afternoon. It is the newest sailing rig around. It is rare to see anyone sailing a canoe these days. They are tender under sail and capsize easily. they were popular at one time, but that was a long time ago.

Get it back in the water and send us some photos. Just remember to dress for immersion. Good luck.

Thanks, @ppine ! I could get it in paddling form in an afternoon, given the right parts (which are supposedly hard to come by these days - will check my local supplier this weekend). Part of the problem with the sailing rig is that the sail, dagger boards, and rudder are still buried under a substantial pile of junk in my mom’s garage, condition unknown. But, I’d like to get it in sailing condition by next season.

I must say, my memory of sailing it, compared to sunfish, was that it wasn’t much fun to sail. But maybe a bit of maturity and a bit more experimenting and experience with it will change my mind.

As for dressing for immersion, it’s been long enough since I sailed, and particularly since I sailed a canoe, that I will not be doing sail trials in this thing until water temps warm up in the late spring/ early summer!

I would dig out that sail before putting an penny into the setup. If that is junk, I think this whole thing is a lost cause and it just becomes a regular canoe

@mike93lx Totally! I’m starting with the yoke and thwart which will be needed regardless. I emailed Old Town and they replied very quickly with the proper lengths for the thwart, yoke, and seat. I’m holding off on the seat until I confirm the condition of the rest of the parts - as you suggest, if the sail or dagger boards aren’t functional, this will end up as a paddling canoe.

There are plenty of used sails around that do not cost much. Making dagger boards is no big deal. Don’t let that stop you.

On the other hand canoes do not “point very well.” They can run just fine before the wind, (downwind). I have used a bed sheet plenty of times between two canoes.

They can reach okay with two dagger boards. That is sailing across the wind, perpendicular to the wind. But they will not beat at all, sailing toward the general direction of the wind.

Yeah, after to learning to sail in sunfish, the couple times I sailed in a canoe growing up I remember it feeling pretty darn sluggish and not performing terribly well. I read a forum post recently claiming that where sail canoes really perform is taking advantage of downwind conditions on long trips, which aren’t really in my future. If I’m wilderness tripping I tend towards trips with in more varied waters and with portages - not exactly sail canoe territory. And, tacking up and down the lake in a stiff wind with a sail canoe might not be so exhilarating as a hull made to be sailed. But, I still plan to confirm my memories of the thing, assuming I can gather the parts to get it sailing again.

Tsuga, Nice name. I am a retired forester. That is why I mentioned carrying a bed sheet for downwind conditions. A spare paddle can be lashed admidships to act as a daggerboard.

Thanks! Yeah I’ve used the ground sheet from my tent for downwind canoe runs. Good idea on the paddle daggerboard!

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Despite newer designs, the Tripper excels as well in tough rapids.

Some canoes are blistering fast but don't turn worth a hoot. Others dog it on the flats but come alive in the maelstrom of winding rapids. Still others compromise speed and maneuverability for "all around" performance. Few canoes master this middle ground. The legendary Old Town Tripper is one of them.

There's hardly a river anywhere that has not felt the smooth vinyl skin of an Old Town "Tripper." Trippers have served as fishing boats on local ponds, as day cruisers for family floats, and as tripping canoes for summer camps. Liveries rent them because they are so strong; whitewater schools like the slalom-like ease with which they negotiate big rapids; and wilderness travelers revere the predictable way they handle rough water with heavy loads of camping gear aboard.

The Old Town Tripper is not a pure-bred whitewater canoe, though it can pass for one. Nor is it a competent lake cruiser, though it will serve admirably. It performs predictably on all types of water, and it doesn't feel boggy no matter how much gear you stow aboard.

A meat and potatoes boat, this. And with a flair for whitewater, wild places, and the stuff of which canoe dreams are made. Love it or hate it, the Old Town Tripper has probably contributed more to modern canoesport than any other single canoe. The "Tripper" is one of a handful of canoes that--despite the demise of Royalex--remains in demand.* Designed nearly 50 years ago, by Old Town's famed Lew Gilman, the Tripper (now made from polyethelene not Royalex) remains popular. It is an American classic whose heritage is as proud as apple pie.

Yellowknife, NWT. That well beat up canoe is "Old Blue." She's headed for the Hood River.

It was Dean Gray, former owner of Old Town Canoe Company, who thought up the Tripper idea. He and Lew Gilman were observing whitewater canoe races around New England in the days when bulky Chestnut Prospectors were the most popular big water racing canoes. Why not design a competitive whitewater boat? Suggested Dean. Lew liked the 20 foot E.M. White and would have preferred to duplicate the big freighter, but deep down he knew a shorter canoe would be more popular, so he went right to work on a 17-footer.

The prototype was a high volume "banana" boat that would turn like crazy but wouldn't track on the flats. So Gilman took the rockered slalom shape and added a re-curved, vee-shaped bow and stern to improve directional control. He told Dean that the recurved bows would do nothing for performance except give the canoe a classic Rushton look. Dean said "If it looks good, put it on."

Lew built a fiberglass prototype and called the Old Town staff in for a look. The corporate opinion was unanimous: the boat was "slab-sided and too big." And, it was nearly as ugly as the Chestnut (which in Lew's words "...was ugly enough")! Nope, it was out-of-style with the boats of the day: it would never sell. But Lew stuck to his guns and dryly affirmed that it would make "one hell of a white water canoe!" Then, with boat in tow, he proudly marched home to seek a second opinion. One look, and his daughter Laurie exclaimed: "Gee dad, it looks like a big tub!"

This was all the reinforcement Lew needed to polish his dream. He built a Royalex Tripper for Walter Abbott, a whitewater paddler who taught canoeing at the University of Maine. Walt put the new canoe through its paces, came back beaming, and told Lew it was the best whitewater canoe he'd ever used.

"That was the start of the Tripper," said Lew. "It just sold like a son-of-a-gun!

Shortly after the Tripper hit the market--and tore the top off the sales chart--Dean Gray came and complimented Lew Gilman and told him that for the first time in many years, the company was running in the black.

If there's a yankee definition of jack-of-all-trades, it's Lew Gilman. Chemical, mechanical, or impossible; Lew will do it!

"My dad was quite a guy," says Lew. He was very patient with everything, including me. He was the kind of guy who would start to fix a door and if he needed a hinge he'd say, "Well, I'll be going downtown in a day or two; I can get it then." If I were fixing the door, I'd be running downtown for that hinge!

There was a welding and repair shop down the road from Academy Hill, where Lew grew up. He went there every night, from the time he was 13, till he graduated from high school.

"They taught me a lot of the old trade secrets in metallurgy. I learned how to temper steel by eye and other things you just can't learn from a book."

Lew worked at the shop summers while he was in high school, and by the time he graduated, he had welded bridges and bulldozers. Then he went to work for the Air National Guard as a machinist, welder, and airframe repairman. "I could actually check the temperature of the annealing ovens by the color of the metal," said Lew.

His infatuation with the Air Guard ended abruptly after a conversation with a gruff Lt. Colonel. The outfit needed a sandblaster that would fit inside the maintenance shop, so Lew built one.

"Where'd you get that?" Said the Colonel, pointing to the hulking machine.

"I built it."

"How come?"

"I couldn't get one that would fit in this room."

"Jesus, that's a good job. What the hell is a guy like you doing working for the government? If I could do that I wouldn't be working for the damn government!"

With that, Lew put aside his government career and along with a friend, started a company called "Engineered Fiberglass," which built toboggans. Neither man knew much about plastics, and that, combined with distribution problems, put the company under. Out-of-work, Lew started a foreign car repair service, though he knew nothing about the machines.

"I'd have people come in with Jaguars, Alfa Romeos, all kinds of expensive cars and ask if I could balance the wheels or fix the transmission or something else. And I'd say yep. 'Ever worked on one before?' They'd ask. Nope. But if somebody else was smart enough to make it, I sure as hell ought to be smart enough to fix it!

I lined up the front end of a Ferrari for a guy once, and I'll tell you, the way he was about that car, I would rather have operated on his wife!"

Abuse is common on far northern canoe trips. "Dragging" over tundra, ice, whatever is par for the course.

Lew could have prospered in the auto repair business, but deep down, he wanted to build canoes. So in 1962, he and Paul Rivers started the first successful fiberglass canoe company in New England. Soon, they turned their attention to a spanking new canoe building material called "Royalex" and began buying custom spec hulls from Uniroyal, which they trimmed out in their own shop. Ultimately, professional differences between the partners created a rift: when the company split in 1968, Gilman went to work for Old Town.

"I remember telling the guy from Uniroyal that within five years we'd (Old Town) be selling a million dollars worth of Royalex a year. He laughed. Well, we did, and they were amazed!"

IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED...

Lew Gilman: "Half the time someone's calling you crazy or telling you you can't do this or that. Then afterwards they say, 'Oh yeah, I knew you could do it.'"

For example, When Lew began work at Old Town, he had an idea that canoes could be thermo-formed faster and easier than the way Uniroyal was doing it. The industry procedure was to frame the Royalex sheet with heavy iron to keep it rigid. Then, heat was applied and the softened Royalex was forced into the right-side-up mold.

The method was time-consuming and costly, and "...a lot of dirt and dust would get in there," says Lew. "Matter of fact, the day I was there (at Uniroyal), a guy lost his cigarette lighter, and they molded a canoe around it!"

Gilman's idea was to use an upside-down mold and unsupported (no frame) Royalex sheet. The mold would come down and vacuum the Royalex into shape. This would eliminate the bulky frame and a lot of labor.

When Lew asked the engineers why they couldn't heat the sheet on the shelf without framing it, they simply said "it couldn't be done," which was just the incentive he needed to perfect the process for Old Town.

Says Lew: "I immediately built a little jury-rigged oven with shelves and took a small piece of Royalex and tried it. Sure enough, it worked all right."

To keep costs down, Lew built the first machine out of scrap. The frame was made from railroad track and the mold was suspended with hand-operated chain pulls. He used the chain binders they have on logging trucks to hold the mold tight, and vacuumed it with an industrial vacuum cleaner!

A NEW "DISCOVERY"

Gilman was not always happy with the quality of Royalex which was supplied by Uniroyal, the nation's only manufacturer of the material. So he devised a way of outfoxing the monopoly by rotationally molding polyethylene into what he called, "high density polyethylene sandwich"--aka the "Discovery" canoe.

Lew explains that cross-linking is achieved by linking the molecules together with a peroxide additive; i.e., the plastic first melts, then cross-links. Strangely enough, it goes from a semi-liquid back to a semi-solid, even though it gets hotter in the process. After that, it won't melt again, which means you can't repair it by conventional methods.

"I did it almost by mistake," said Lew, as he unveiled the mystery of mending the plastic. "I had another type of material that I was trying to adhere and I sent it to Hexel in California, and they came up with a very effective adhesive. So I said geez, maybe that would do polyethylene. Well, it didn't. But I knew that if you oxidize the surface of it very quickly, almost any adhesive will stick fairly well. So I just took a propane torch to it and it took a hell of a hold. Now, this method is considered a very effective way to fix both cross-linked and any other kind of polyethylene."

Then, there's the time that Lew shared his genius with the plastics industry.

Says Lew: "The accepted method for building molds for thermal-forming was to use a high temperature epoxy. But they were hard to handle and had to be post-cured after each use. I found that all the heat-resistant epoxies had a lot of aluminum in them so they would take the heat. So I devised a way to use polyester by loading it with aluminum powder and thinning it with a solvent."

About a year after Lew started thermal forming, he talked to a guy from a company that made epoxies.

"What kind of epoxy are you using for your molds?" he asked.

"I'm not using epoxy."

"Well, what are you using?"

"Polyester."

"But you can't do that!"

Lew told him he was 5,000 canoes too late with his advice!

Incredible, isn't it? Small town boy learns to weld and temper metal in a local machine shop, then builds a $300 sandblaster for the federal government and artfully repairs expensive foreign cars he's never seen. Later, he starts two profitable businesses and gives them up to design and build canoes for Old Town Canoe Company, granddaddy of them all. He single-handedly defies existing technology with his stubborn yankee belief that the impossible is both practical and profitable. That's Lew Gilman--inventor, canoe designer, jack-of-all-trades, and real life American hero who pursued his dream and woke up smiling.

*When Royalex went out-of-production in 2013, Old Town began building the boats out of cross-linked polyethelene (aka, "Discoveries"). The 16'9" OT "Discovery" is actually a "Tripper": the slightly shorter length (16'9" in poly vs.17'2" in Royalex)) results from shrinkage in the mold). Paddlers won't tell the difference.

Lew Gilman: 1929-2011.

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Old Town Canoe, seeking restoration advice

Discussion in ' Wooden Boat Building and Restoration ' started by Nolan Clark , Mar 31, 2021 .

Nolan Clark Junior Member

Hello All, A bit of background. Long time fiberglass boat builder trying his hand at a wood restoration. I have been fortunate to start my retirement with restoring a 18' 1917 old town canoe. It's in remarkable condition for it's age. Someone took pretty good care of it. It came with an original repair kit with a square of original canvas, tacks, jar of white lead, and original paint. At some point someone removed the canvas cover and replaced it with a fiberglass and resin. I have not figured out if it's polyester or epoxy but whoever did it mixed pigment in the resin and it dripped between the planks when it was applied. A bit of clean up required! I did build a 24' boat using the WEST system so I am familiar with the philosophy of epoxy encapsulation. My game plan was to sand and scrap out the original varnish inside. Remove any remaining varnish with a striper then sand with 120 then 220 grit paper. Do the needed minor repairs and coat it with 3 layers of epoxy followed with varnish. then proceeding to the exterior of the hull. The advice looking for is answering 3 questions. 1. Are there any issues with my game plan? 2. Are there any issues coating with epoxy after using a stripper? There are so many nooks and crannies I'm a little concerned that even after sanding I don't think I can be 100% confident all the stripper residue will be gone. 3. How to handle a gap between one edge of a rib and the plank under it? I have attached a picture showing the corner of a piece of sandpaper in the gap. I was think of pushing catalyzed epoxy in the gap to coat everything but I'm beginning to think I need to thicken the epoxy and pack the gap solid. Thank you all for any and all advice.  

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Blueknarr Senior Member

Your plan is mostly sound. IMO mechanical removal of the old finish should suffice. If chemical stripper is used there could be issues but unlikely. Test with the specific brands of stripper and epoxy. The longer you wait between stripper and epoxy the less any issues will be. Raise one end of the canoe to allow the first coat of epoxy to oose under the ribs. Then raise the other end to fill the other side Good luck  

fallguy Senior Member

I would avoid strippers. They only want your money. Oops. I mean, strippers tend to leave a lot of residue. I don't understand the reasons to use epoxy at all. Filling the gap with epoxy is sort of unneeded and may create a hardspot. Nice boat!  

Rumars Senior Member

Dry ice blasting would be the preferred way to strip the inside. The rest of the plan is sound.  

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Thank you all for the replies and advice. I'll heed the advice on the strippers (both human and chemical) and try not to be lazy and get all the old varnish out mechanically. Good suggestion about using gravity to get in the gap and about filling creating a hard point. It could come back to haunt me when stepping into the canoe. The idea of the epoxy coat was to stop any water entry/rot but being as it will not be in the water 24/7 and stored in a dry location, maybe it is overkill and just an extra expense. A nice varnish finish may be enough. You have me reconsidering that too. Yesterday I was talking to a friend and he suggested sand blasting. I've never used sand blasting on wood, only metal parts. Dry ice blasting is something I've never heard of and fascinating. I like the idea of no residue or cleanup. I doubt I would go to that on this project but in the future I can see where it would be a very handy solution. I'm going to have to investigate. Thank you again Blueknarr, Fallguy and Rumars for your advice!  

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Gulfport, like so many Tampa Bay communities, picks up Helene’s pieces

• Lane DeGregory Times staff

GULFPORT — At dawn Friday, when the deluge finally dwindled to a drizzle, people in this tiny waterfront town — and across Tampa Bay — began venturing out to see what havoc Hurricane Helene had wrought .

The road was closed three blocks from the beach. Lights from police cruisers swept the yellow-gray sky. For the first time anyone could remember, the mayor had called in the National Guard.

Waves, up to 8 feet high, had swept in overnight, shattering windows, downing doors, drowning the bars and shops. Beer bottles, silverware, beaded bracelets floated along the curbs.

The storm had passed more than 100 miles from Boca Ciega Bay. But the surge had destroyed downtown Gulfport: The worst damage since the town was founded more than a century ago.

“Like someone came in with a bulldozer and just tore everything down,” said Mayor Sam Henderson, 53. “I thought I was going to be sick.”

Here lay a tableau of the devastation so many Florida communities now face: postcard-perfect streets and humble houses torn into splinters. Gulfport, and so many other slices of Tampa Bay, have been forced into an existential crisis. What does rebuilding look like when so much must be gutted? How does the heart of a community endure?

No answers are immediately apparent, but here, in the muddy, miserable aftermath, neighbors turned to each other and faced the work ahead.

More than a dozen boats had smashed into the seawall, onto the beach, in the street, where a brown, oily river ran along Shore Boulevard S. Pier railings were twisted. The historic casino, beach shelters, rec center — all had been flooded.

At least two-dozen businesses were totaled, plus 70 houses. Most of the first-floor condos at Town Shores had waist-high water sweep through.

“We were so lucky,” said Paige Acree, who was hauling soggy T-shirts outside Gulfport Brewery . “We’ve been crying with the other business owners all morning.”

O’Maddy’s and Pia’s Trattoria, the Greek restaurant and the ice cream shop, the crystal store and pizza place, all of her neighbors nearer to the water had lost everything. Acree, whose brewery sits on slightly higher ground at 30th Ave. S, had water in her storage shed and brew house, but the dining room was dry. A dock from behind the casino had floated a quarter-mile up the road and landed at the eatery.

“Now we have dockside dining,” joked the brewmaster, Jason Toft.

Like many people who escaped the worst — and saw others suffering — Acree felt grateful. And guilty. She had to do something.

By 9 a.m., she and Toft had pitched a blue tent behind their new dock, set up folding tables and carried out coolers. Her husband drove the Jeep to Costco. The cook hauled the grill to the sidewalk and set out the ketchup.

The hurricane churned for hours off Tampa Bay, destroying thousands of homes, businesses and boats along Florida’s Gulf Coast.

At least 11 people in the area died . More than 1,000 had to be rescued .

Some escaped rising water in their homes, huddling in attics, paddling canoes, fleeing to neighbors’ apartments. Others had lost sleep stuffing towels under doors, moving files and photos to higher shelves, bailing their kitchens, only to call it a loss. Many woke to downed fences and trees, flooded cars. Saltwater sparked fires. Houses smoldered.

Nearly every corner of our region that touches water felt the storm’s brunt. Scenic neighborhoods like Davis Islands and Shore Acres saw high-water lines staining their facades. Sleepy retirement havens up and down the Pinellas and Pasco county coastlines were shattered. Along rivers like the Alafia in Tampa, and in vulnerable neighborhoods like Palmetto Beach , people took dogs and children in their arms and ran — or swam.

The day after landfall, nearly a million Floridians still didn’t have power — including 305,000 in Tampa Bay.

In Gulfport, residents were told it would be three days, at least, before the lights came back on. And months, maybe years, for their quirky community to recover.

Most of the affected homes and businesses lay in evacuation zone A. Others sat only 3 feet above sea level.

“What’s left of the homes and businesses will have to be gutted and rebuilt, but they won’t look the same,” the mayor said. “Insurance is going to make them elevate everything two to 12 feet, which will completely change the character and scale of everything.”

The town will come back, the mayor said, because of the people. “But I’m worried it won’t ever be the same again.”

Near the Gulfport waterfront Friday afternoon, sludge sat ankle deep inside Tommy’s Hideaway , glistening with shards of glass from shattered windows. Waves had toppled the industrial refrigerator, the kegerator, all the tables. Only the wood-fired pizza oven had been spared.

At least a dozen people were sweeping, mopping, squeegeeing. Some were employees who had no idea if they could ever go back to work. Others were strangers who had stopped in to lend a hand.

Rachel Maisner, 36, and her wife, Tinsley, 32, had been regular customers and now were scooping wads of sodden napkins from the floor. “Our power is out, so why not come help?” Maisner asked. “There’s not much we can do, but we can do this.”

A couple of doors down, across from what used to be the volleyball courts, Dia Vartsakis, 35, was watching men haul dripping blue booths from her restaurant, Neptune Grill , onto the curb. Surge had crushed the outside bar, swelled five feet indoors. She was worried about insurance, but more worried about her employees. She had to re-open for them, she said, and the town.

Next door, the Tiki Bar & Grill also had been flattened. A stove sat sideways, washed from the kitchen, and the patio had been swept away. On the only wall still standing, above where the bar had been, a blue sign said, “Welcome to Paradise.”

“We’re just trying to salvage whatever we can,” said Coleen Walsh, 69, stacking liquor bottles into soggy boxes. She and her husband, Dan, are snowbirds from Massachusetts and regulars at the tiki hut. They had walked down from their Town Shores condo to help.

“That’s what we do in Gulfport,” Walsh said. “That’s why we winter here and love this place.”

A couple of blocks up Beach Boulevard, where the water hadn’t reached, Lisa Merriweather, 51, was wrestling an industrial leaf blower down the sidewalk. Her shop, Modern Man Grooming Salon , hadn’t been hit. But she couldn’t bear to see the rubble and debris. For hours, she had been working her way down the main drag, blowing off driveways and sidewalks, anything she could do to start erasing the tragedy.

“I don’t know what’s going to happen,” she said. “But Gulfport is family. So much is gone. But we still have each other.”

The town started as a stop-over between downtown St. Petersburg and the barrier islands. In the 1910s, before there were bridges to the beaches, folks could take a trolley down 22nd Avenue S to Gulfport, then board a boat at the casino to Pass-a-Grille. The waterfront was lined with hotels and snack bars — many of which still stood. Until Friday.

Once cars replaced trolleys, and once bridges let beach-goers bypass the boat, Gulfport lost much of its tourism. Fishing became a main industry. Property values declined, and homes fell into disrepair.

That all changed in the mid-2000s, as artists and eclectic residents got priced out of Key West and revitalized Gulfport with galleries and shops. Newcomers, including many LGBTQ+ people, refurbished bungalows, opened restaurants, repopulated the downtown.

After the pandemic, the town hit its modern heyday. Breweries and bars filled all the storefronts, and markets and festivals drew busloads of visitors.

The town is 3.8 square miles, with about 11,400 year-round residents — retirees, teachers, landscapers. Dog parks and a prized library line its brick streets, shaded by live oaks dripping with Spanish moss. There are no chain stores or parking meters.

“We’re magical, quirky, blue-collar, diverse. Just a little slice of old Florida that doesn’t exist anywhere anymore,” the mayor said. “Or we were.”

For 15 years, as a councilman and mayor, Henderson has tried to preserve the little town, protect it. This hurricane could force Gulfport into a future he fears. “The price of repairs may mean we lose our character. There will be a different kind of people who can afford to live here, moving forward,” he said. “I think this one was it. The turning point. I hope I’m wrong.”

As the sun slid into Boca Ciega Bay on Friday, the bruised sky suddenly was streaked with scarlet. Dump trucks and disaster cleanup vans rumbled out of town. The river of polluted water had receded into the storm drains.

The woman with the leaf blower had cleared two more blocks, making it almost to Gulfport Brewery — where more than 100 people gathered around the blue tent. Couples, friends, strangers, kids, dogs filled all the tables on the sidewalk. The power was still off. The taps weren’t flowing. But everyone was drinking water and Gatorade, toasting their neighbors.

Sierra Espinosa, 27, wore a straw hat as she bent over the grill. She had already served at least 1,000 hot dogs and hamburgers. Now, she was starting to cook the donations, which had been coming in all afternoon: plump shrimp and filet mignon, 160 pounds of chicken. Nearby restaurants had emptied their freezers.

For hours, people had been flocking to the brewery with bags of granola bars and Doritos, diapers and Depends, tampons, toothbrushes, bleach, blankets, cat litter and dog food. One woman had spent all afternoon baking gluten-free muffins.

It was almost dark when Espinosa started filling take-out containers. A couple of filthy, exhausted men came to carry their dinners back to wherever they were staying. So many people wouldn’t be able to go home for a long time.

“Come back tomorrow!” called the cook. “We’ll be out here all day.”

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• Thread starter Thread starter Steveike
• Start date Start date May 5, 2012
• May 5, 2012

Hi all, 1st. time user. But looking for info on an Old Town Whitecap sailboat that I picked up last Aug. But just getting around to it. I have'nt been able to locate ser,# anyone with info? would be appreciated.  

Benson Gray

Canoe history enthusiast.

• May 6, 2012

The serial number should be on the inside stem but the mast step occasionally gets placed over it on small sailing boats like the Whitecap. You will need to crawl under the deck and look ahead of the centerboard trunk. It should also be located on the top edge of the transom or on the top edge of the brace that connects the transom to the keelson (which may be under the rear seat). The information at http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?791 might help. Please reply here if this isn't clear. Benson  

• May 9, 2012

Thanks for the reply. I'm almost ready to bring her in the shop to start overhaul. ... Steve  

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Steveike, Most likely the ribs and keelson are ash. Unless the boat has been stored a lot more than used, they have some serious rot. Replacing the keelson around the centerboard trunk is a WONDERFUL experience. Otherwise; they are a great little boat- even crossed the Atlantic -solo.  

Wooden Canoeist

• May 28, 2012

Steve - we also have a Whitecap that we are restoring. No rot issues but split planks are the main problem. LAter-Bud  

• Jul 15, 2012

Floor boards for Old Town Whitecap I'm in the midst of restoring a Whitecap that did have some serious rot, cracked planks and broken ribs. It did not have any floor boards when I got it, but have seen photos of others showing them. My plans are to use white oak and build "sections" that can be removed to allow access beneath them. Does anyone know if this was the original design, and what thickness might be appropriate? My thoughts are between 3/8 and 1/2 inch thick, but don't want to add extra weight if not needed that thick.  

• Jul 16, 2012

The pictures at http://forums.wcha.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=243&d=1110167997 and http://forums.wcha.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=2093&d=1159923510 show some of the floor racks in a Whitecap. I believe that they were originally made in sections so they could be removed. Several Whitecap owners have posted messages here over the years so you may want to search for their messages and contact them directly. Good luck and please reply hear if you don't get the answer you need. Thanks, Benson  

Benson Gray said: The pictures at http://forums.wcha.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=243&d=1110167997 and http://forums.wcha.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=2093&d=1159923510 show some of the floor racks in a Whitecap. I believe that they were originally made in sections so they could be removed. Several Whitecap owners have posted messages here over the years so you may want to search for their messages and contact them directly. Good luck and please reply hear if you don't get the answer you need. Thanks, Benson Click to expand...

• Jul 22, 2012

JaguarJim said: I'm still hoping that someone will have the information re. thickness. Click to expand...

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Some additional images of the floor racks in place are attached below. An image of Alden's original plans for the floor rack in this boat design number 512 are also attached. It is interesting to note that the original plans do not show exactly how these were actually built which is not unusual. A portion from a later Alden plan number 540 for a different Old Town sailing dinghy are also attached. This shows the floor boards along the curve of the hull instead of being parallel to the waterline like the ones in the design number 512. I don't know which of these two styles was originally used in the Whitecap. Good luck, Benson  

• Jul 23, 2012

Benson, Great pictures. Thanks for them. I've got what I need to start this part of the process. I'm going with the design keeping the boards parallel to the waterline. Looks more like what earlier pics of the actual Whitecap boards. Jim  

• Sep 4, 2012

There is a Whitecap currently advertised at http://maine.craigslist.org/boa/3245836800.html with a few pictures of the floor boards. The seller may be willing to provide more details. Good luck, Benson  

Benson, Thanks for link to craigslist boat. I've printed pics for comparison. We've started our floor boards using 3/4 inch white oak for the "joists" parallel to the ribs and 1/2 inch white oak for the boards. We're shaping the outboard-most board to the curvature of the hull, then using 3.25 inch widths over to the keel and trunk. Leaving about a 1/4 inch spacing. We'll run from the transom to the front of the centerboard trunk where the coaming and deck cover the rest of the ribs and planks. Planning on 4 sections. I'll send pictures as we get them assembled. Jim  

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• Sep 5, 2012

Man thats a sweet boat, price doesn't seem bad either.....  

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Novokuznetsk

Demographics

City administration, administrative and municipal status, administrative bodies, transportation, twin towns and sister cities, notable people, external links.

It was previously known as Kuznetsk until 1931, and as Stalinsk until 1961.

Founded in 1618 by men from Tomsk as a Cossack ostrog (fort) on the Tom River , it was initially called Kuznetsky ostrog ( Кузне́цкий острог ). [2] It became the seat of Kuznetsky Uyezd in 1622. [3] Kuznetsk ( Кузне́цк ) was granted town status in 1689. [3] It was here that Fyodor Dostoevsky married his first wife, Maria Isayeva in 1857. [13] Joseph Stalin 's rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union transformed the sleepy town into a major coal mining and industrial center in the 1930s. It merged with Sad Gorod in 1931. From 1931 to 1932, the city was known as Novokuznetsk and between 1932 and 1961 as Stalinsk ( Ста́линск ), after Stalin. As a result of de-Stalinization , it was renamed back to Novokuznetsk .

As of the 2021 Census , the ethnic composition of Novokuznetsk was: [14]

Ethnic group Population Percentage 438,507 95.5% 3,450 0.8% 2,533 0.6% Other 14,919 3.2% Within the framework of administrative divisions , Novokuznetsk serves as the administrative center of Novokuznetsky District , even though it is not a part of it. [1] As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the Novokuznetsk City Under Oblast Jurisdiction —an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts . [15] As a municipal division , Novokuznetsk City Under Oblast Jurisdiction is incorporated as the Novokuznetsky Urban Okrug . [15] [16] The city consists of six non-municipal intra-city districts : [16] District Area, km Population (2021) 109.10 92,620 36.11 46,932 92.49 75,174 22.49 77,593 95.62 78,533 66.52 166,628 On 7 December 2009, by a resolution of the Novokuznetsk City Council of People's Deputies, a new version of the City Charter was approved, [16] according to which the authorities consist of: Novokuznetsk City Council of People's Deputies (representative authority), Mayors of the city of Novokuznetsk, Administration of the City of Novokuznetsk (executive and administrative authority), City Control Committee (permanent body of financial control), Judicial institutions: district courts, courts of general jurisdiction, the Russian Agency for Legal and Judicial Information, the permanent judicial presence of the Kemerovo Oblast Court, judicial divisions of magistrates, and others. [18] The Novokuznetsk City Council of People's Deputies is a representative body of power and consists of 18 deputies elected in 18 single-mandate constituencies and 18 deputies elected on party lists. The term of office of deputies is five years. In September 2021, elections were held for the Council of People's Deputies, following which the seats in the council were distributed as follows: 27 - United Russia , 2 - Liberal Democratic Party , 2 - A Just Russia , 2 - Communist Party . The representative of United Russia, Alexandra Shelkovnikova, was elected chairman. The Youth Parliament of the city operates under the City Council of People's Deputies. [19] A whole network of bodies of territorial public self-government has been created in Novokuznetsk; [20] in total, 60 of them have been created in the city: in the Zavodskoy District - 7, Kuznetsky - 6, Kuibyshevsky - 13, [21] [22] [23] Novoilyinsky - 6, Ordzhonikidzevsky - 9, Central - 16. Siberian State Industrial University Novokuznetsk branch of Kemerovo State University State Institute for Physicians Postgraduate Training (also known as Novokuznetsk Postgraduate Physician Institute), Russian Ministry of Health Novokuznetsk Scientific Center of Medicosocial Expert Evaluation and Rehabilitation of Invalids, Federal Agency for Public Health and Social welfare Institute of General Problems of Hygiene and Occupational Diseases, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Kuzbass institute Federal Penitentiary Service Novokuznetsk is a heavily industrial city and is located in the heart of the Kuzbass region . Factories in the city include: West-Siberian Metal Plant Novokuznetsk Iron and Steel Plant Kuznetsk Ferroalloys   [ ru ] Novokuznetsk aluminium factory   [ ru ] Metallurg Novokuznetsk is an ice hockey team based in Novokuznetsk. Formerly a member of the Kontinental Hockey League , the team is currently a member of the Supreme Hockey League . The football team of the same name was recently promoted to the Russian first division below the premier. RC Novokuznetsk compete in the Professional Rugby League , the highest division of rugby union in Russia. Florida Panthers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky , Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Dmitry Orlov and Minnesota Wild winger Kirill Kaprizov were all born in Novokuznetsk and began their pro careers with Metallurg Novokuznetsk. Novokuznetsk is also the birthplace of US chess Grandmaster Gata Kamsky . The main airport is the Spichenkovo Airport . The city is also a major railway junction with both local and long-distance trains. Local public transport is provided by trams , buses, and trolleybuses. Novokuznetsk has a fairly typical southwest Siberian humid continental climate ( Köppen climate classification : Dfb ) with warm summers during which most of the precipitation occurs, and severe, generally dry winters. Snowfall is very frequent during the winter, but its water content is generally very low due to the cold temperatures. Climate data for Novokuznetsk (1991–2020, extremes 1955–present) Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Record high °C (°F) 4.2 (39.6) 7.9 (46.2) 18.3 (64.9) 30.6 (87.1) 34.8 (94.6) 36.7 (98.1) 36.0 (96.8) 35.9 (96.6) 34.7 (94.5) 24.9 (76.8) 17.4 (63.3) 7.3 (45.1) 36.7 (98.1) Mean daily maximum °C (°F) −10.9 (12.4) −6 (21) 1.3 (34.3) 11.8 (53.2) 19.2 (66.6) 24.5 (76.1) 25.5 (77.9) 24.1 (75.4) 16.8 (62.2) 9.1 (48.4) −2.5 (27.5) −8.6 (16.5) 8.7 (47.7) Daily mean °C (°F) −15.9 (3.4) −12.9 (8.8) −5.2 (22.6) 4.2 (39.6) 11.5 (52.7) 17.0 (62.6) 19.0 (66.2) 16.5 (61.7) 9.9 (49.8) 3.0 (37.4) −6.5 (20.3) −13.2 (8.2) 2.3 (36.1) Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −20.5 (−4.9) −18.2 (−0.8) −10.9 (12.4) −3.0 (26.6) 4.0 (39.2) 9.1 (48.4) 12.5 (54.5) 9.5 (49.1) 4.6 (40.3) −1.7 (28.9) −10.0 (14.0) −17.5 (0.5) −3.5 (25.7) Record low °C (°F) −47.7 (−53.9) −42.2 (−44.0) −33.9 (−29.0) −26.1 (−15.0) −8.9 (16.0) −2.1 (28.2) 2.2 (36.0) 0.2 (32.4) −6.7 (19.9) −23.0 (−9.4) −37.7 (−35.9) −42.8 (−45.0) −47.7 (−53.9) Average mm (inches) 25 (1.0) 17 (0.7) 19 (0.7) 28 (1.1) 43 (1.7) 56 (2.2) 73 (2.9) 62 (2.4) 42 (1.7) 38 (1.5) 40 (1.6) 31 (1.2) 474 (18.7) Average rainy days 0.4 0 2 9 15 16 16 15 14 11 4 1 103 Average snowy days 20 18 15 11 3 0.1 0 0 1 11 19 23 121 Average (%) 81 78 74 66 60 68 73 75 75 77 82 82 74 Source: Pogoda.ru.net Novokuznetsk is twinned with: Sergei Abramov , ice hockey player Sergei Bobrovsky (born 1988), ice hockey player Margarita Chernousova (born 1996), a sport shooter Maksim Chevelev (born 1990), professional football player Evgeny Chigishev (born 1979), a former weightlifter and Olympic silver medalist Andrey Dementyev (born 1970), a former professional football player Kirill Kaprizov (born 1997), ice hockey player Maxim Kitsyn (born 1991), a professional ice hockey player Ana Kriégel , Russian-born Irish murder victim Anna Litvinova (1983–2013), a fashion model and beauty pageant title holder Aleksandr Melikhov (born 1998), a professional football player Kostyantyn Milyayev (born 1987), a Ukrainian Olympic platform diver Vadim Mitryakov (born 1991), a professional ice hockey player Nikita Morgunov (born 1975), a former professional basketball player Albert Nasibulin (born 1972), a material scientist Dmitry Orlov (born 1991), ice hockey player Maksim Pichugin (born 1974), a Winter Olympic cross-country skier Anton Rekhtin (born 1989), a professional ice hockey player Artyom Sapozhkov (born 1990), a former professional football player Stanislav Sel'skiy (born 1991), a rugby union player Denis Simplikevich (born 1991), a rugby union player Kirill Skachkov (born 1987), an Olympic table tennis player Denis Stasyuk (born 1985), ice hockey player Daniil Tarasov (born 1999), ice hockey player Ivan Telegin (born 1992), ice hockey player and Winter Olympic gold medalist Arkady Vainshtein (born 1942), a Russian-American theoretical physicist Vladimir Vilisov (born 1976), a Winter Olympic cross-country skier Maxim Zyuzyakin (born 1991), a professional ice hockey player Pavel Silyagin (born 1993), professional boxer Related Research Articles Prokopyevsk is a city in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. 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The area of the district is 2,669 square kilometers (1,031 sq mi). Its administrative center is the urban locality of Yaya. Population: 20,383 (2010 Russian census) ; 24,982 ; 26,759 (1989 Soviet census) . The population of Yaya accounts for 57.3% of the district's total population. Krasnobrodsky is an urban locality in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. Population: 11,919 (2010 Russian census) ; 11,859 (2002 Census) ; 12,663 (1989 Soviet census) . 1 2 3 4 5 6 Law #215-OZ 1 2 3 "Review of City History" . Official site of Novokuznetsk municipal administration (in Russian). admnkz.ru. Archived from the original on March 28, 2017 . Retrieved October 5, 2012 . ↑ http://www.kem.kp.ru/daily/26136.7/3026076/Сергей%5B%5D Кузнецов вступает в должность главы Новокузнецка ↑ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том   1 [ 2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol.   1 ] . Всероссийская перепись населения 2010   года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service . 1 2 3 Law #104-OZ ↑ "Об исчислении времени" . Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). June 3, 2011 . Retrieved January 19, 2019 . ↑ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. ( Russian Post ). Поиск объектов почтовой связи ( Postal Objects Search ) (in Russian) ↑ Russian Federal State Statistics Service. Всероссийская перепись населения 2020 года. Том 1 [ 2020 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1 ] (XLS) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service . ↑ Federal State Statistics Service (May 21, 2004). Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов   – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3   тысячи и более человек [ Population of Russia, Its Federal Districts, Federal Subjects, Districts, Urban Localities, Rural Localities—Administrative Centers, and Rural Localities with Population of Over 3,000 ] (XLS) . Всероссийская перепись населения 2002   года [All-Russia Population Census of 2002] (in Russian). ↑ Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989   г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров [ All Union Population Census of 1989: Present Population of Union and Autonomous Republics, Autonomous Oblasts and Okrugs, Krais, Oblasts, Districts, Urban Settlements, and Villages Serving as District Administrative Centers ] . Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989   года [All-Union Population Census of 1989] (in Russian). Институт демографии Национального исследовательского университета: Высшая школа экономики [Institute of Demography at the National Research University: Higher School of Economics]. 1989 – via Demoscope Weekly . ↑ "F. M. Dostoevsky Literary-Memorial Museum in Novokuznetsk" . Fyodor Dostoevsky Literary Memorial Museum. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016 . Retrieved October 17, 2012 . ↑ "Территориальный орган Федеральной службы государственной статистики по Кемеровской области - Кузбассу" . Retrieved May 24, 2023 . 1 2 "ОБ АДМИНИСТРАТИВНО-ТЕРРИТОРИАЛЬНОМ УСТРОЙСТВЕ КЕМЕРОВСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ (с изменениями на: 29.03.2017), Закон Кемеровской области от 27 декабря 2007 года №215-ОЗ" [ ON THE ADMINISTRATIVE AND TERRITORIAL STRUCTURE OF THE KEMEROV OBLAST (as amended on: 29/03/2017), Law of the Kemerovo Oblast dated 27 December 2007 No. 215-OZ ] (in Russian). docs.cntd.ru. Archived from the original on June 24, 2019 . Retrieved August 1, 2019 . 1 2 3 "Устав города Новокузнецка" [ Charter of the city of Novokuznetsk ] (in Russian). Official website of the administration of Novokuznetsk (admnkz.ru). Archived from the original on October 17, 2012 . Retrieved January 4, 2013 . ↑ "О внесении изменений и дополнений в Устав Новокузнецкого городского округа" [ About modification and additions in the Charter of the Novokuznetsk city district ] . gigabaza.ru/ (in Russian). April 29, 2016. Archived from the original on August 1, 2019 . Retrieved August 1, 2019 . ↑ "Cправочник организаций Новокузнецка" [ Directory of Novokuznetsk organizations ] . novokuznetsk.jsprav.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on August 1, 2019 . Retrieved August 1, 2019 . ↑ "Молодёжный парламент города Новокузнецка — общая информация" [ Youth Parliament of the city of Novokuznetsk - general information ] (in Russian). newparlament.ru. Archived from the original on July 13, 2013 . Retrieved July 13, 2013 . ↑ "Избранные депутаты и глава получили от населения лишь часть полномочий" [ Elected deputies and the head received only part of the powers from the population ] (in Russian). i2n.ru. October 25, 2010. Archived from the original on July 13, 2014 . Retrieved January 4, 2013 . ↑ Kuznetsky Rabochy , 2008, № 148 ↑ Kuznetsky Rabochy , 2009, № 16 ↑ Kuznetsky Rabochy , 2009, № 59 ↑ Климат Новокузнецка (in Russian). Погода и климат. Archived from the original on January 6, 2019 . Retrieved November 5, 2021 . Совет народных депутатов Кемеровской области.   Закон   №215-ОЗ   от   27 декабря 2007 г. «Об административно-территориальном устройстве Кемеровской области», в ред. Закона №131-ОЗ от   22 декабря 2014 г.   «О внесении изменений в Закон Кемеровской области "О статусе и границах муниципальных образований" и Закон Кемеровской области "Об административно-территориальном устройстве Кемеровской области"». Вступил в силу   в день, следующий за днём официального опубликования. Опубликован: "Кузбасс", №243, 28 декабря 2007 г. (Council of People's Deputies of Kemerovo Oblast.   Law   # 215-OZ   of   December   27, 2007 On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of Kemerovo Oblast , as amended by the Law   # 131-OZ of   December   22, 2014 On Amending the Law of Kemerovo Oblast "On the Status and the Borders of the Municipal Formations" and the Law of Kemerovo Oblast "On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of Kemerovo Oblast" . Effective as of   the day following the official publication date.). Совет народных депутатов Кемеровской области.   Закон   №104-ОЗ   от   17 декабря 2004 г. «О статусе и границах муниципальных образований», в ред. Закона №123-ОЗ от   22 декабря 2015 г.   «О внесении изменений в Закон Кемеровской области "О статусе и границах муниципальных образований"». Вступил в силу   со дня официального опубликования. Опубликован: "Кузбасс", №242, 24 декабря 2004 г. (Council of People's Deputies of Chelyabinsk Oblast.   Law   # 104-OZ   of   December   17, 2004 On the Status and the Borders of the Municipal Formations , as amended by the Law   # 123-OZ of   December   22, 2015 On Amending the Law of Kemerovo Oblast "On the Status and the Borders of the Municipal Formations" . Effective as of   the official publication date.). (in Russian) Official website of Novokuznetsk Siberian State Industrial University (SIBSIU) (in Russian) Life in Novokuznetsk (in Russian) Informational website of Novokuznetsk : • Administrative districts Cities and towns International National Geographic 418 COMMENTS 18 Feet 1941 Old Town Sailing Canoe This 1941 Old Town Otca model was meticulously restored in 2017. Most of the sail rigging is original to canoe. Mast has been rebuilt and original sail replaced with a period-correct 55 sq.ft. four-panel lateen sail with battens, in pale cream, with the look a feel of cotton. Old Town canoe sail rig information This is an old thread but I've recently had some requests for information about Old Town's other sailing boats so this seemed like a logical place to add that. The first image shows a 1939 plan for the 72 square foot dinghy sail. The second shows an assortment of dinghy sail information from 1932 to the 1940s. A Quick Guide to Old Town Sailing Canoe Hardware Learn how to sail a canoe with Old Town's lateen rig, leeboards, and other components. See images and descriptions of the sail, mast, mast step, mast partner, spars, leeboards, bracket, and steering gear. The Old Town Dinghy T he Old Town dinghy, a classic yacht tender, was once a staple offering in the catalog of the Old Town Canoe Company.It's a lightweight beauty with a bright-finished interior and a painted, canvas-sheathed hull. Structurally, it looks like a canoe, but it has the shape of a versatile small boat—one that motors, sails, and rows respectably. 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I cannot find a catalog or specs online. I searched... Home. Forums. New posts Search forums. ... Old Town White Cap Sailboat. 03867; Mar 27, 2012; Serial Number Search; Replies 3 Views 2K. Apr 22, 2012. Benson Gray. R. Old Town Molitor ... Old town serial number lookup A user asks for help identifying the year of their Old Town canoe with serial number 174120. Other users suggest possible matches and provide scans of build records from the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association. Old Town Canoe, seeking restoration advice A bit of background. Long time fiberglass boat builder trying his hand at a wood restoration. I have been fortunate to start my retirement with restoring a 18' 1917 old town canoe. It's in remarkable condition for it's age. Someone took pretty good care of it. 17 Feet 1923 Old Town Canoe Boat Summary - full details on this listing are available here Help - Click here to bring back this guide 17 Feet 1923 Old Town Canoe ... 1923 Old Town canoe with original canvas. She has not been in the water since 1987. Very good condition, hull #74802-17...all original canvas & back rest (with inscription) documentation papers are included ... 16 Feet 1930 Old Town Canoe Boat Summary - full details on this listing are available here Help - Click here to bring back this guide 16 Feet 1930 Old Town Canoe ... This is a 1930 Old Town canoe. She is a multiple show winner that has been re-painted and re-varnished. Very nice condition. It was appraised by Old town for $9,000. Old Town Canoes for sale Find new and used Old Town canoes on eBay, the online marketplace for water sports and outdoor gear. Browse various models, sizes, colors, and prices of Old Town canoes and accessories. Canoe Review: The Radisson By BW Marine Products Other aluminum canoes I've owned—older double-ender 17- and 18-foot Grummans—weighed around 80 pounds and required two people to load. The Radisson is constructed out of a lighter gauge 5052 marine aluminum. Other square-stern models of comparable length, like the polyethylene Old Town Discovery Sport, weigh up to 114 pounds. THE 15 BEST Things to Do in Kuzbass (2024) Pictured Rocks Cruises Signature Tours of DC- Day/Night Tour Guide in Sri Lanka Kareem The Explorer Click&Boat Catamaran Adventures San Blas Sedona Wolf Sanctuary Aggression Session Crater Lake - Volcano Boat Tours Orange Beach Sailing Charters and Sunset Cruises 1940s Old Town square stern canoe/boat While people living in central Maine have a higher than average interest in boats and canoes, there just are not very many people living there. Further, transportation/shipping of the canoe can be a serious issue that will likely affect price. A few years ago I bought a canoe on eBay located in Mattawamkeag, Me. Gulfport, like so many Tampa Bay communities, picks up Helene's pieces The town is 3.8 square miles, with about 11,400 year-round residents — retirees, teachers, landscapers. 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