Chestnut

Trademark

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a light, seaworthy canoe made of cedar and capable of carrying a sail.

Quotations

1922

A seventeen-foot "Chestnut" . . . a few simple instruments, and a carbine Winchester, comprised the outfit.

1933

Our canoes are both eighteen-foot Chestnuts, very strong and deep, excellent in rough water.

1963

The canoe . . . was a sixteen-foot Chestnut, made of eastern cedar, canvas-covered. . . .