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Canoe ?
Looks more like maybe the First SUP board. {:>)

Larry

Yeah, had I seen that on shore, I would have thought it a large piece of driftwood!

That's really neat. Thanks for sharing the story.

Just this same week archeologists discovered another 1000 year old canoe in Mexico. Maya Canoe Found

It appears to be a dugout in the first picture and its flipped over bottom side up in the second picture. That's why it appears to be a SUP board.

Way cool. I'm waiting for one of the canoe gurus here to chip in with the make and model.... Swift Dugout?

This was made before the invention of sidewalls... no wonder she sank.

Looks like a sawyer WWC-I if I had to guess.....maybe an early Penobscot.

Very cool....always fun to see stuff like this surface (literally)

SUP Board = Stand Up Paddleboard Board :)

That is awesome. Now if they can just locate the portage pack that was in that canoe they might solve that innie-outie question that has been puzzling all of us for years! :)

Very cool find.

Shoulda tied it down before the windstorm.

OtherBob: "Shoulda tied it down before the windstorm."

+1

Word just in: It has asymmetrical rocker!!

If I claim my canoe is that old, will a 13-person team show up to portage it for me?

Some funny stuff in this thread.

I used to write a column for Canoe & Kayak magazine called RIDES where I'd interview paddlers who'd wax about their favorite canoe, i.e. ride. I wish I could have interviewed the owner of this old boat.

This is really cool and it will be great to see this in the museum in a few years. Here's an additional article with more information including that a cache of fishing net sinkers was also recovered with the canoe. The area where the canoe was found is popular with divers. It is close to where my son and I did our final checkout dive to earn open water scuba diver certification. There's a platform on the lake bottom that divers can sit or stand on with an instructor while going through the test. I was proud of him because he had an actual quasi-emergency with a balky regulator during the checkout dive. He didn't panic, did everything right, and passed safely with flying colors.

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Hello 911? I'd like to report a possible missing person...

That's pretty darn cool. Thanks for posting it!

Cool!!!

For anyone not familiar with the ‘Ishnala Supper Club’ on Mirror Lake in the Lake Delton, Wisconsin area, they have a dugout canoe on display outside the Supper Club. The dugout canoe at Ishnala has been on display for as long as I can remember. A plaque above the canoe explains that the it was recovered from the bottom of Mirror Lake. The plaque doesn’t suggest the canoe's age though, but it’s interesting that the two dugout canoes are similar and found approximately 50-miles apart.

Hans Solo

I heard they were able to date it cuz its DNR registration sticker was still attached.

Yeah, those things never come off. But I thought they dated it by calling Hanssolo and asking to see the manufacturer‘s catalog.

andym: "But I thought they dated it by calling Hanssolo and asking to see the manufacturer‘s catalog. "

LMAO!

There is also a dugout at the Wis. DNR McKenzie Center near Poynette that was pulled out of Lake Wisconsin several years ago. And someone recently told me about another one that's been sequestered there, but no provenance. Having grown up in the Four Lakes area, we often roamed the Arboretum and visited the mysterious mounds and Seven Springs. Glorious freedom and adventure for 10-12 year olds. We ran wild with the past, and no parents helicoptering. Probably why I built a birchbark canoe. Later this fueled my imagination as I paddled Lake Mendota, Monona, Wingra, Waubesa, the Yahara and Lake Koshkonong: No big buildings, no filled-in marshes, clean water, no nitrogen runoff. Only natural sounds. Take a portage trail over the isthmus, camp in the woods where now sits the capitol. Visit the native American camp on their best real estate - Maple Bluff. What a great national park and monument this natural area would have been. Must have been a great stopover for millions of migrating birds too. Wonder what those fishing nets pulled in? It really wasn't all that long ago. Will our future be any easier or longer-lived than the canoe builders?

Any truth to the rumor that it was formerly owned by Bernie Sanders?