Introduction to Wood Canvas Canoe Restoration

Date: Saturday, May 7, 2022, 9:00AM-5:00PM
Instructor: Wayne Ford & Bryan Rooney
Class Size: 6
Registration Deadline: Sunday, April 17, 2022

Join Boatright Wayne Ford and Bryan Rooney in this one day class teaching students how to recanvass a Penn Yan cartopper.  This process is typical of a wood canvas canoe construction.  The cartopper is a beamier transom vessel similar to the structure of a wood canvas canoe. In the hands-on process students will create a canvas envelope that gets pulled over the hull with many hands will facilitate attacking the canvas around the gunnel.The canvas is stretch canvas  it tight with vice grips and clamps and students will cut off the excess canvas. If time allows, we will fill the weave of the canvas with filler.

Registration:

This class is sliding scale starting at $10, pay what you can! Suggested donation is  $100. 
 

**Members must log into the museum website during registration to apply their discount. Please note membership must be current as of the date of the class. Call the museum at 845-338-0071 for questions about membership.

Location: Hudson River Maritime Museum
Wooden Boat School Classroom
86 Rondout Landing
Kingston, NY 12401

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