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Thursday, July 03, 2008 --- 57 days ago http://www.wickedlocal.com/cohasset/homepage/x2010601771/Antique-kayak-finds-new
 From the shelves of Abercrombie and Fitch to a lake in North Germany to the rafters of the Cohasset Yacht Club, it is fair to say a kayak, which now calls Cohasset Maritime Institute its home, is well traveled. A circa 1930s kayak has recently been restored by three Cohasset High students as part of their community service class. Steve Bobo, a member of the Board of Directors for the Cohasset Center for Student Coastal Research, supervised the group of young boat builders as they restored the kayak to its former luster. The story of the kayak involves the Red Lion Inn, the Yacht Club, and noted architects Bulfinch and Shepley. According to Bobo, work for architects during the Depression of the 1930s was hard to come by and as a result, Boston-based architects Bulfinch and Shepley built kayaks and sold them to the then-sporting goods store Abercrombie and Fitch. The owner of the Red Lion Inn Gerd Ordelheide’s father purchased one of those kayaks. The kayak was used in the pre-World War II era at a boat club on a lake in North Germany. Much later in the kayak’s life it was given to the yacht club by Ordelheide, but the kayak was stowed in the rafters unused for about six years. Bobo was able to discover the boat’s history and origins through conversation with Ordelheide and a former employee of Bulfinch Shepley, who had some of the old kayak design plans. A member of the yacht club cleaning out the club attic put the boat i ... |
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