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Where and who made Blue Hole Canoes and what is their composition.?
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The Blue Hole Canoe Company was founded in Nashville, Tennessee in 1972 by Bob Lantz, Roy Guinn and Bill Peatman. The factory was on Blue Hole Road in Antioch just outside Nashville. Several hundred of the original design, for which Bill Griswold of Nashville was also responsible, were manufactured there. After building and selling the first fifty boats, Bill Peatman sold his share of the company to the partners/investor. In 1974 the company moved to Sunbright, Tennessee (not far from Oak Ridge). Blue Hole canoes were among the first to use ABS ("Royalex") plastic and quickly became the dominant canoe used in the growth of whitewater canoeing in the 1970's. In the mid-80's the remaining founders parted ways, and Roy Guinn joined up with Joe Pulliam to found the Dagger Canoe Company in 1988 in nearby Harriman, Tennessee. By 1990, Dagger had began producing kayaks in addition to canoes. Since then, their main competitor, Perception, purchased the company and relocated it to Easley, South Carolina. However, at the time Dagger was being started, the name Blue Hole Canoe Company was sold and they were continued to be built for awhile in Gordonsville, Virginia. That company closed, and the name was bought by another canoe company, which my produce them again at some point in the future.
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Where can one find specifications for Blue Hole Canoes?
River Riders at Harper's Ferry, W. Va., (on line) has Blue Hole canoes, including specs. My friend John Williamson, who now lives near Roanoke, owned and operated the Blue Hole company at Gordonsville, Va. John suffered from cancer that he believed was caused by heating the sheets of material used to form the body of the canoe. He was forced to sell and/or close the company as I recall because of the tremendous cost of the successful treatment by the UVa. Medical Center. I own two boats, manufactured in 1978 and 1984 by the original Sunbright, Tenn. company, I still paddle both and wouldn't trade either for any new canoe made today. Morris Stephenson
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