The Decked Canoe Archives
Assembled by Tim Gittins
Lotus
Date: 1887
Designer: R. J. Douglas &Co.
During the final year or so of the original American Canoeist - voice of the American Canoe Association from February 1882 through the end of 1887 - R. J. Douglas and Co., Waukegan, Illinois, advertised on the cover and included a small line sketch of one of their canoe models. The folowing lines are taken from those advertisements.