The Wooden Canoe Heritage Association's White Classified Listing Archive
15 foot White Canoe ca 1950
1. Title: 1951 White 15' 10" Scout Canoe
2. Price: $100 (Or Best Offer)
6. Location: Orefield, PA (Near Allentown)
7. Description: 1951 White 15' 10" Scout Canoe.
S/N 15-51 1404, 15' 10" L x 34" W
My uncle was the Camp Director at BSA Camp Trexler in Northeast PA in the mid-1960s when the camp "upgraded" its waterfront fleet from W/C canoes to 15' Grumman canoes. He obtained three of these White W/C canoes at that time. This is the last one he kept.
The (original) canvas is beginning to peel off. Ribs and planking (as viewed from interior) appear sound. No apparent cracked ribs.
8. Condition: Needs Restoration
16 foot White Canoe for Sale
2. $50
6. MPLS, MN
7. White - early closed gunwale - 16 ft - poor condition, lots of bad wood
1. Title of Ad - For Sale - Restored 1930 16' EM White Boat, with motor and newly rewired trailer.
2. $3,100
6. Wolfeboro, NH
7. 1930 16' EM White boat, (Signed by original builder - JA Fredrick), original floorboards, 10hp Johnson Seahorse motor with Mile Master tank and hose connections, Page oars, newly rewired Shoreline trailer.
8. Restored, good condition
1. 17' E M White design canoe
2. $1800
6. Bryan, OH
7. 17' White canoe with 35" beam and 13" depth.
8. Built within the last 20 years at Woodenboat school. Interior is excellent original. Exterior has new canvas and painted hunter green. This is a customer's canoe, but unfortunately, due to sudden health concerns, it is now for sale.
Title: 17' EM White canoe
Price: $2,700
Location: Long Beach, CA
Description: This is a restored E.M. White canoe that is 17' long. It was restored by a previous owner with the assistance of Rollin Thurlow in Rollin's shop. The interior is gorgeous with a gleaming varnish finish. The exterior paint is cracking and will need to be refurbished eventually. Rub rails on the exterior really add to the beauty of this canoe. It comes with 2 vintage beavertail paddles and a removable carrying thwart. Uncertain year of manufacture.
Condition: Restored
1. Title of Ad: CLASSIC E.M. WHITE WOOD AND CANVAS CANOE
2. Price: $1,500
6. Location: Brockton, MA
7. Description: Made by E.M. White @1921. 18 ft, wood and canvas. Has been fully restored by a Maine craftsman and is in excellent condition. Stored since restoration.
8. Condition: Excellent, Restored
Title: EM White 18'
$500
Location: Danby, Vt.
Description: EM White 18' of unknown age. Purchased many years ago at auction from an estate in the Adirondack area. The interior is stripped showing solid ribs and planks, and good rib ends. One end is solid and the other needs work. A shallow keel in good condition is included.
Condition: needs restoration.
1. 1930s EM White Guide canoe
2. $3,000 and open to best reasonable offer
6. Location: Holbrook, Massachusetts
7. Description: We have this 1930s EM White canoe (approximately 18 feet long) in excellent condition for its age. There were no serial numbers on these early canoes (before EM White became Old Town), and we couldn't find the original bill of sale. As far as we know, this has had just the one owner (our father) and was lovingly kept up over the years. It has been in storage the last several years. There is a normal amount of cosmetic wear for the age,but otherwise she's ready to go. The canoe has not been used in years but last it was it was ready to paddle.
8. Condition - Excellent Original
$1800
Doylestown, PA 18901
c. 1940; good usable; seats need recaning; has been stored indoors
EM White
18' Canoe
$10,000
Excellent
18' Green Hull EM White Square Stern (transom) Wood and Canvas Canoe
2 seats, oarlocks and oars.
Vintage canoe - estimating dating 1940s
No serial number / No model number available
* Custom order original paint - one of a kind
20 ft. EM White guide
Durham, NH 032824
20 Ft EM White Guide Model Canoe
$700
In the early 1970s I was scoutmaster for a Boy scout troop in Camden, Maine. My troop had been given sometime earlier a 20-foot EM White guide model canoe. (From the looks and shape of the canoe I would say that it is the white-water version. I was told it was a White Canoe by the old scoutmaster at who’s farm in Northport the troops canoes were stored. He had been the scoutmaster for many years dating back into the 60’s, and may have been the original owner. Following a trip on the Allagash River I realized that this canoe was to big for my scouts to handle as they had done a great deal of damage to the canvas covering. I purchased the canoe from the Scout troop and went to work restoring it. My father was a wooden boat builder and was at that time working with a lot of West Epoxy coating, so after removing the old canvas covering, I then covered the canoe with fiber glass cloth and coated that with West Epoxy. Giving it the look of canvas with the strength of Epoxy. I also added a front seat as the old guide canoes didn’t have a front seat. For the next 20 yrs this canoe went down a great many white-water rivers and many lakes in Maine. For the next few years she was my canoe for our annual spring downeast whitewater river outing, where we paddled down the Upper Machias river whitewater, the East Machias river, the Denis River, and the Saint Croia River. Every year she would paddle down the white water race section of the Georges River and at least once on the Kenduskeg River in Bangor. When I got married, I took my new wife on a weekend trip down the Flagstaff Lake and another time we took a trip down the West Branch of the Penobscot River and down the Chesuncook lake. Another time we took a trip to Seboomook Lake, for a weekend camping and paddling. She is currently ready to paddle although she could use a fresh coat of varnish and new coat of paint, and the seats need to be recained. I don’t know the true age of this canoe as I was well used when it was given to the Scout troop, and could easily date to the early 50s or late 40s. He had a second canoe that looked identical to the one discribed above but that canoe still had the EM White brass plack on the bow
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