Located in Western Oregon, USA, Ferwerda canoes are built using traditional wood and canvas canoe construction. Cedar ribs are steamed and bent over an old canoe form and cedar planking is attached using brass canoe tacks. Canvas is stretched over the hull, and filled to produce a water proof covering. The interior wood shell and exterior filled canvas produces a  double hull system, allowing the canoe to flex when encountering underwater obstacles.

I only build one model of wood canvas canoe, the Hiawatha canoe, which is built on an old original Thompson Brothers canoe form. I do not build to order, as this is just a hobby, and I generally produce only one canoe per year.
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Located in western Oregon, USA
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Some Good Canoe Related Links
Wooden Canoe Heritage Association (WCHA)
The Wooden Canoe Heritage Association, Ltd. (WCHA) is a non-profit membership organization devoted to preserving, studying, building, restoring, and using wood canoes, and to disseminating information about canoeing heritage throughout the world.

Northwest Chapter of WCHA
Serving wooden canoe enthusiasts in the Pacific Northwest of the United Statesand Canada.  Dedicated to preserving, studying, building, restoring and using wooden canoes and disseminating information on canoeing heritage in North America

Northern Forest Canoe Trail
The canoe trail is a 740-mile water trail that follows Native American travel routes from Old Forge, New York, across Vermont, Québec and New Hampshire, to Fort Kent, Maine

Thompson Dockside
The Thompson Dockside is a bi-monthly newsletter dedicated to the preservation of Thompson Boats, and their affiliated companies

Shaw and Tenney Handcrafted Paddle
Handcrafted paddles and oars since 1856

Wood Canoe Identification
Have an old wood canoe and not sure what it is, or who made it?, Check out Dragonfly Canoe Works canoe identification guide.
A one time non-canoe related winter project made with western red cedar